Brain Tumor Program

Meet the team

Our staff of compassionate and experienced pediatric subspecialists includes neuro-oncologists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, neuropathologists, psychologists and neuropsychologists. Our physicians are focused on family-centered care: From your first visit, you’ll work with a team of professionals who are committed to supporting all of your family’s physical and psychosocial needs.

• Mark W. Kieran, MD, PhD, Director, Pediatric Medical Neuro-oncology Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  
  Kieran is the director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Program. A pediatric neuro-oncologist by training, he specializes in the treatment of a wide variety of brain tumors in children. In addition, he oversees laboratory research on the classification and treatment of brain tumors. He is an associate professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Susan N. Chi, MD
  Chi is a pediatric neuro-oncologist specializing in the treatment of brain tumors including medulloblastoma, ependymoma and atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor. In addition, she is the director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinical Trials Program and an assistant professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Alan R. Cohen, MD, FACS, FAAP
  Cohen is the Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital and a world-renowned expert in minimally invasive neurosurgery. He serves as chairman of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons' Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery and director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery and American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. He received the Children's Miracle Network National Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Patient Care. 
   
• Umberto DeGirolami, MD
  DeGiorlami is a neuropathologist with expertise in neuropathology and anatomic pathology and is a Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Tanya M. Diver, PhD
  Diver is a specialist in neuropsychology and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Rebecca D. Folkerth, MD
  Folkerth is a neuropathologist who specializes in neuropathology. In addition, she is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Liliana Goumnerova, MD, Director, Pediatric Neurosurgical Oncology Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
  Goumnerova is a pediatric neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of brain tumors and spinal column tumors and other conditions of the central nervous system. Her research focuses on neural development and the formation of tumors and she’s an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.

• Hart G. W. Lidov, MD, PhD
  Lidov is a neuropathologist specializing in pediatric neuropathology and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. 
   
• Keith L. Ligon, MD, PhD
  Ligon is a pediatric neuropathologist and an assistant professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on signals responsible for the growth of brain tumors.
   
• Joseph R. Madsen, MD
  Madsen is a pediatric neurosurgeon who specializes in the treatment of congenital malformations, epilepsy and hydrocephalus. He is also the director of the Epilepsy Surgery Program and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on improving treatments for epilepsy, hydrocephalus and other neurological conditions.
   
• Peter Manley, MD
  Manley is a pediatric neuro-oncologist and the director of the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Outcomes Clinic. He is also an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Karen J. Marcus, MD, Chief, Division of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School
  
  Marcus joined the Dana Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center in 1989 and specializes in pediatric oncology and radiation oncology. She treats children with a wide variety of cancers including brain tumors, sarcomas, neuroblastoma, leukemias, kidney tumors and Hodgkin lymphoma. In addition, Marcus is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and co-chair of Pediatric Oncology Institutional Review Board.
   
• Scott L. Pomeroy, MD, PhD
  Pomeroy is Children’s neurologist-in-chief and a professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in neuro-oncology and his research focuses on the genetic causes of medulloblastoma.
   
• Tina Young Poussaint, MD
  Poussaint is a neuro-radiologist with expertise in oncologic imaging. She is an associate professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Pediatric Neuroradiology Fellowship. In addition, she is the director of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium’s multi-institutional Neuroimaging Center (NIC).
   
• Mark R. Proctor, MD
  Proctor is a pediatric neurosurgeon with expertise in the treatment of brain tumors, vascular abnormalities, congenital disorders of the central nervous system and other neurological disorders. In addition, he also specializes in the treatment of spine and craniofacial abnormalities. He has worked at Children’s since 1997.
   
• Jennifer Turek Queally, PhD
  Queally is a pediatric neuropsychologist and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Celiane M. Rey-Casserly, PhD
  Rey-Casserly is a pediatric neuropsychologist and the director of Children’s Neuropsychology Program. In addition, she is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Richard L. Robertson, Jr., MD
  Robertson is a radiologist specializing in neuroradiology and the chief of the Division of Interventional Radiology. In addition, he is the Medical Director of Radiology Informatics and an associate professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His area of special interest is cerebrovascular disease in children.
   
• Shenandoah Robinson, MD, FAAP
  Robinson is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Boston Children's Hospital and recent surgical director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Oh. She is one of the few neurosurgeons in the U.S. with proficiency in selective dorsal rhizotomy (SDR), a minimally invasive technique used to treat spasticity. Her NIH-funded research focuses on methods of brain protection in newborns. 
   
• Nathan Robison, MD
  Robison is a pediatric neuro-oncologist and attending physician at Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center. He is the director of Outpatient Clinical Services. He is also an instructor at the Harvard Medical School.
   
• Caroline Robson, MD
  Robson is a radiologist with expertise in head and neck imaging and neuroradiology. She’s associate radiologist-in-chief of the Department of Radiology and director of the Division of MR and Head and Neck Imaging. Her area of special interest is pediatric head and neck imaging and fetal neuroimaging.
   
• Diana Rodriguez, MD
  Rodriguez is a radiologist with expertise in pediatric neuroradiology. In addition, she is the director of Medical Student Education and an Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
   
• R. Michael Scott, MD
  Scott is a Children’s neurosurgeon and professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is the former chairman of the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. His current research focuses on the treatment of moyamoya syndrome in children.
   
• V. Michelle Silvera, MD
  Silvera is a radiologist specializing in pediatric neuroradiology. Her areas of special interest are pediatric neuroradiology and neurooncology. In addition, she is an instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
   
• Edward Robert Smith, MD
  Smith is a neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of brain tumors, hydrocephalus, moyamoya syndrome, and pediatric stroke. He is also an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Smith studies the development of tests to better screen for the presence, recurrence and progression of brain tumors and cerebrovascular disease.
   
• Nicole Ullrich, MD, PhD, Director, Pediatric Neurological Neuro-oncology
  Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
  Ullrich is a pediatric neurologist with expertise in neuro-oncology and neurofibromatosis. In addition, she is an assistant professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She has worked at Children’s since 1999 and completed her medical training here.

• Christine Chordas, MSN, CPNP, RN
  Chordas is a nurse practitioner caring for children with brain and spinal cord tumors at Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center. She specializes in the care of survivors of childhood brain tumors.
   
• Liana DeLoid, MS, RD, LDN
  DeLoid is a specialist in clinical nutrition and provides nutritional support services to pediatric patients receiving cancer treatment at Dana Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center.
   
• Mary Ann Zimmerman, MSN, CPNP, RN
  Zimmerman is a nurse practitioner caring for children with brain and spinal cord tumors at Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center. She specializes in the outpatient care of children on treatment protocols.