The Radiosurgery Society® (RSS) has made a collaborative effort to create a Functional Radiosurgery Working Group to address the clinical and scientific facets of functional radiosurgery therapies, with the goal of conducting research to advance clinical treatments for patients. Members of the Functional Radiosurgery Working Groups are experts in the fields of neurosurgery, radiation oncology, medical physics, neurology, neuroradiology and psychiatry who work collectively to understand the clinical, technical and physical parameters of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for the treatment of functional diseases.
Chairperson
Pantaleo Romanelli, MD Cyberknife Center, CDI, Milano, Italy
Group Members
John Adler, MD CEO Zap Surgical Systems, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Cureus Inc, San Francisco, CA
David Anschel, MD, DAPN -N-E-CB, FACNS New York University School of Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital, St. Charles Hospital, Port Jefferson, NY
Stan Benedict, PhD, FAAPM University of California at Davis, Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology, Sacramento, CA
Shyam Singh Bisht, MD Medanta Cancer Institute, Gurgaon, India
Markus Bredel, MD, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Bhargava S. Chitti, MD Northwell Health, Queens, NY
Alfredo Conti, MD, PhD, FEBNS Alma Mater University of Bologna, Italy, Bologna, Italy
Maria Cristina Frassanito, PhD Cyberknife Center, Mater Dei Hospital, Bari, Italy
Yoshinori Higuchi, MD, PhD Department of Neurological Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Marc Levivier, MD, PhD, IFAANS CHUV - Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Eduardo Lovo, MD International Cancer Center Group, Central America
Andres Lozano, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FRSC, FCAHS Division of Neurosurgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Erik Middlebrooks, MD Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Jacksonville, FL
Susan C. Pannullo, MD, FAANS, FAAN New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY; Cornell University College of Engineering, Ithaca, NY
Vatsal B. Patel, MD, MBA, DABR United Health Group, Las Vegas, NV
Selcuk Peker, MD Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Richard Popple, PhD The University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine - Radiation Oncology, Birmingham, AL
David Schlesinger, PhD UVA Gamma Knife Center, Charlottesville, VA
Brett Schneider, MD Chief Medical Officer, Zap Surgical, Stanford University, San Carlos, CA
Michael Schulder, MD Department of Neurosurgery Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, New Hyde Park, NY
Helen Shih, MD, Ms, MPH, FASTRO Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,Boston, MA
Konstantin V. Slavin, MD Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Evan Thomas, MD, PhD OSU Department of Radiation Oncology, Columbus, OH
Harrison Walker, MD Division of Movement Disorders, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Industry Representatives
Seth Blacksburg, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer, Accuray
Kristine H. Gagliardi Chief Strategy Officer, Zap Surgical
Raymond A. Schulz, MSc Director, Global Radiosurgery Programs | Office of Medical Affairs, Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company
