Neuro-Oncology (Brain Tumors) Treatment Program
The Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology offers the most advanced care for patients with brain tumors and nervous system tumors.
Our multidisciplinary group of brain, spine and nerve cancer experts will develop and implement an integrated, care plan personalized to each patient. Depending on the stage and other characteristics of a patient’s cancer, treatment may include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a combination of these therapies. Many clinical trials are also offered through our program.
Directors
![Scott R. Plotkin, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/scott-plotkin.jpg)
Scott R. Plotkin, MD
Executive Director, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology
Chief, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology
![Justin T. Jordan, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/justin-jordan.jpg)
Justin T. Jordan, MD
Clinical Director, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology
Director, Neurofibromatosis Clinic
Neuro-Oncology
![Isabel C. Arrillaga-Romany, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/isabel-arrillaga-romany.jpg)
Isabel C. Arrillaga-Romany, MD, PhD
![Priscilla K. Brastianos, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/priscilla-brastianos.png)
![Jorg Dietrich, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/jorg-dietrich.jpg)
Jorg Dietrich, MD, PhD
Clinical Director, Cancer and Neurotoxicity Clinic and Research Program
![April Fitzsimmons Eichler, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/april-eichler.jpg)
![Deborah A. Forst, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/deborah-forst.jpg)
Deborah A. Forst, MD
Associate Program Director, MGH-DFCI-BWH Neuro-Oncology Fellowship
![Elizabeth Robins Gerstner, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/elizabeth-gerstner.jpg)
![Albert Kim](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/albert-kim.jpg)
![Othon Iliopoulos, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/othon-iliopoulos.jpg)
Othon Iliopoulos, MD
Clinical Director, Von-Hippel Lindau Disease/Familial Renal Cell Cancer Program
![Justin T. Jordan, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/justin-jordan.jpg)
Justin T. Jordan, MD
Clinical Director, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology
Director, Neurofibromatosis Clinic
![Julie Miller, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/julie-miller.jpg)
![Michael Parsons, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/michael-parsons.jpg)
![Scott R. Plotkin, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/scott-plotkin.jpg)
Scott R. Plotkin, MD
Executive Director, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology
Chief, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology
Program Director, MGH/DFCI/BWH Neuro-Oncology Fellowship Program
![Nancy Wang, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/nancy-wang.jpg)
![Kayla Christofferson](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/kayla-christofferson.jpg)
Kayla Christofferson, NP
![Amanda Gordon](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/amanda-gordon.jpg)
Amanda Gordon, NP
![SooAe Jones](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/sooae-jones.jpg)
SooAe Jones, NP
![Maura Mahar, NP](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/maura-keeley.jpg)
Maura Mahar, NP
![Katherine Marciano, NP](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/katherine-marciano.jpg)
Katherine Marciano, NP
![Christina Orr, NP](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/christina-orr.jpg)
Christina Orr, NP
![Michelle Pisapia](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/michelle-pisapia.jpg)
Michelle Pisapia, NP
![Sharon Whitney, PA-C](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/sharon-whitney.jpg)
Sharon Curley Whitney, PA
Brain Tumor Neurosurgeons
![William T. Curry, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/william-curry.jpg)
William T. Curry, MD
Director, Neurosurgical Oncology
![Frederick (Fred) George Barker, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/frederick-barker.jpg)
Frederick (Fred) George Barker, MD
![Daniel P. Cahill, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/daniel-cahill.jpg)
![Paul Hamilton Chapman, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/paul-chapman.jpg)
Paul Hamilton Chapman, MD
Neurosurgical Director of the Proton Beam Radiosurgery Program
![Bob Carter, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/bob-carter.jpg)
Bob Carter, MD
Chief, Neurosurgery Service
![Bryan Choi, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/bryan-choi.jpg)
Bryan Choi, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy
![Gavin Dunn, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/gavin-dunn.jpg)
Gavin Dunn, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy
![Pamela S. Jones, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/pamela-jones.jpg)
![Brian V. Nahed, MD, MSC](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/brian-nahed.jpg)
Brian V. Nahed, MD, MSC
Director, MGH Neurosurgery Residency Program
![Brooke Swearingen, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/brooke-swearingen.jpg)
Radiation Oncology
![Annie Waifong Chan, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/annie-chan.jpg)
Annie Waifong Chan, MD
Director, Proton Fellowship Program
Director, Head and Neck Radiation Oncology Research Program
![Melin Khandekar, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/melin-khandekar.jpg)
![Ariel Marciscano, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/ariel-marciscano.jpg)
![Kevin S. Oh, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/kevin-oh.jpg)
![Helen Alice Shih, MDD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/helen-shih.jpg)
Helen Shih, MD
Medical Director - Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center
MGH Associate Program Director - Harvard Radiation Oncology Residency Program
Director, CNS Service
![Peggy Leland](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/peggy-leland.jpg)
Peggy A. Leland, RN, MN, FNP, AOCNP
![Kara Warner](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/kara-warner.jpg)
Kara V. Warner, CNP, MSN
Neurofibromatosis Clinic
![Justin T. Jordan, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/justin-jordan.jpg)
Justin T. Jordan, MD
Clinical Director, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology
Director, Neurofibromatosis Clinic
![Kien-Ninh Ina Ly](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/kien-ninh-ina-ly.jpg)
![Scott R. Plotkin, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/scott-plotkin.jpg)
Scott R. Plotkin, MD
Executive Director, Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology
Chief, Division of Neuro-Oncology, Department of Neurology
Program Director, MGH/DFCI/BWH Neuro-Oncology Fellowship Program
![Christina Orr, NP](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/christina-orr.jpg)
Christina Orr, NP
Neuropathology
![Matthew P. Frosch, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/matthew-frosch.jpg)
Matthew P. Frosch, MD, PhD
Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Subspecialty Head, Neuropathology
Lawrence J. Henderson Associate Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School
![Maria Martinez-Lage, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/maria-martinez-lage.jpg)
Maria Martinez-Lage, MD
Assistant Pathologist
![Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/anat-stemmer-rachamimov.jpg)
Anat O. Stemmer-Rachamimov, MD
Associate Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Neuroradiology
![Ramon Gilberto Gonzalez, MD, PhD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/ramon-gilberto-gonzalez.jpg)
Ramon Gilberto Gonzalez, MD, PhD
Director, Neuroradiology Division
![Otto Rapalino, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/otto-rapalino.jpg)
Otto Rapalino, MD
Director, Advanced MR Neuroimaging
Director, Brain Tumor Imaging, Division of Neuroradiology
Psychiatric Oncology
![Donna Beth Greenberg, MD](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/donna-greenberg.jpg)
Oncology Nursing
![Marie Aste](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/marie-aste.jpg)
Marie Aste, RN
Research Nurse
![Kayla Christofferson](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/kayla-christofferson.jpg)
Kayla Christofferson, NP
![](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/staff/profile-placeholder.jpg)
Trent Cunningham, RN
Practice Nurse
![Amanda Gordon](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/amanda-gordon.jpg)
Amanda Gordon, NP
![Lauren Hibyan](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/lauren-hibyan.jpg)
Lauren Hibyan, RN
Research Nurse
![SooAe Jones](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/sooae-jones.jpg)
SooAe Jones, NP
![Maura Mahar, NP](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/maura-keeley.jpg)
Maura Mahar, NP
![Katherine Marciano, NP](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/katherine-marciano.jpg)
Katherine Marciano, NP
![Joelle McCone](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/joelle-mccone.jpg)
Joelle McCone, RN
Practice Nurse
![Christina Orr, NP](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/christina-orr.jpg)
Christina Orr, NP
![Michelle Pisapia](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/michelle-pisapia.jpg)
Michelle Pisapia, NP
![Shannel Simonin](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/shannel-simonin.jpg)
Shannel Simonin, RN
Practice Nurse
![Sharon Whitney, PA-C](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/sharon-whitney.jpg)
Sharon Curley Whitney, PA
Social Work
![Sandra McLaughlin, MSW, LCSW](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/neuro-oncology-team/sandra-mclaughlin.jpg)
Sandra McLaughlin, MSW, LICSW
![Scheinda Rene, MSW](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/staff/oncology-social-workers/scheinda-rene.jpg)
Scheïnda Rene, MSW
Nutrition Services
![](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/genitourinary-team/alicia-anskis.jpg)
Alicia Anskis, MS, RD, LDN
Clinical Nutrition Manager
![](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/staff/samantha-bateman-135x135.jpg)
Samantha Bateman, MS, RDN, CSO, LDN
Clinical Nutrition Specialist
![](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/staff/meagan-currell-135x135.jpg)
Meagan Currell, MS, RD, LDN
Clinical Dietitian
![](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/genitourinary-team/ashley-draviam.jpg)
Ashley Draviam, MS, RD, CSO, LDN
Senior Clinical Nutritionist
![](/assets/MGH/images/cancer-center/genitourinary-team/carol-sullivan.jpg)
Carol Sullivan MS, RD, CSO, LDN
Senior Clinical Nutritionist
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Neuro-Oncology (Brain Tumors) Treatment Program
The Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology offers the most advanced care for patients with brain tumors and nervous system tumors.