Research
Faculty Research
The Department of Neurological Surgery is leading the way in neurosurgical research and development. The Department supports ongoing investigations into treatments for brain tumors, epilepsy, CNS congenital anomalies, and neurovascular disease. Physicians at the Brain Tumor Center are developing new brain tumor models, drug delivery methods, anti-angiogenesis therapy, immunotherapy and gene therapy, all in an effort to bring new treatment options to the clinical setting. The University of Chicago Adult Epilepsy program collaborates with brain imaging experts to investigate ways to improve surgical epilepsy treatment with less invasive diagnostic techniques and more effective surgery. The Pediatric Neurosciences Center continues to define the field in cognitive outcomes after treatment for hydrocephalus and congenital anomalies, while providing Phase 1 trials for brain tumor treatment. Current neurovascular research is focused on the molecular mechanisms of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) genesis, a common vascular anomaly affecting 0.5% of the population.
Issam Awad, MD
John Harper Seeley Professor of Neurological Sciences of Neurological Surgery
Professor of Neurology
Professor of Neuroscience Institute
Committee on Neurobiology
Sean Polster, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Ryan Naylor, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Peter Christian Warnke, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Professor of Neurology
Professor of Pediatrics
David Satzer, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Institute
John Downey, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charles Greenspon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bakhtiar Yamini, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology
Paramita Das, MD
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Peleg Horowitz, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Fernando Goldenberg, MD
Professor of Neurology
Susan Rowell, MD PhD
Professor of Surgery
Ali Mansour, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Margaret Hackett Family Program (MHFP)
Javad Hekmat-panah, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery
Mohamad Bydon, MD
Chair of Neurological Surgery
Stahl Professor of Neuroscience in the Wallman Society of Fellows of Neurological Surgery
Antonio Reyes Porras Perez, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery