Brain Cancer Treatment Team

The following treatment team members specialize in brain cancer at Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute.  To make an appointment, please call The James Line at (614) 293-5066 or toll-free 1-800-293-5066.  The James Line is a free, 24-hour, confidential telephone service staffed by oncology nurses weekdays from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. to provide callers with cancer information and physician referrals throughout central Ohio.  For further information about a physician listed below, click on the name.

Neuro-Oncology

Herbert Newton, MD, FAAN
Professor of Neurology and Oncology
Director, Division of Neuro-Oncology
Esther Dardinger Chair of Neuro-Oncology
Co-Director, Dardinger Neuro-Oncology Center

Robert Cavaliere, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

Neuropathology

Abhik Ray Chaudhury, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Pathology

Neurological Surgery

E. Antonio Chiocca, MD, PhD
Dardinger Family Professor of Neurological Surgery
Co-Director, Dardinger Neuro-Oncology Center
Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery

Mario Ammirati, MD
Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery
Director, Skull Base Surgery

John McGregor, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Department of Neurological Surgery
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology, Department of Radiology

Atom Sarkar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Director, Functional Neurosurgery
Director, Nanomedicine in Neurosurgery

Radiation Medicine

Simon Lo, MB, ChB
Director, Radiation Medicine Residency Program
Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine

Neuroradiology

Eric Bourekas, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, Neuroradiology Fellowship Program

Donald Chakeres, MD
Professor, Section Chief, Neuroradiology
Director, MR Research

Greg Christoforidis, MD
Associate Professor
Section Chief, Interventional Neuroradiology

H.W. Slone, MD
Associate Professor
Clinical Director, MRI
Director, MRI Fellowship

Neuroanesthesiology

Sergio Bergese, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Neuroanesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery

Contacts and Caregivers

Susan Bell, MS, CNRN, CNP
Nurse Practitioner, Neurological Surgery

Carol Volpi, RN, BSN, OCN
Neuro-Oncology

Myrna Gaye Bowler, MSN, RN, CFNP
Family Nurse Practitioner, Neuro-Oncology

Christin Brown, RN, LSW
Patient Care Resource Manager, Neuro-Oncology

Annita Paolucci, MA
Patient Care Resource Manager

Barbara Beech-Brown, MA
Patient Care Resource Manager

Jill Brown, MA
Data Coordinator, CTO – Neuro-Oncology/Rad One

Beth Deley
Adminstrative Associate, Neurological Surgery

Deanne Valentine
Medical Assistant