FUNCTIONAL RADIOSURGERY WORKING GROUP

Functional Radiosurgery Working Group


About the Functional Neurosurgery Working Group

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.

Working Group Members:

Chairperson

  • Pantaleo Romanelli, MD
    Renaissance Institute, Winter Park,FL

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
    Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  • Shyam Singh Bisht, MD
    Medanta Cancer Institute, Gurgaon, India
  • Markus Bredel, MD, PhD
    Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami Health System Hospitals and Clinics, Miami, FL
  • 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
  • Mersiha Hadziahmetovic, MD, DABR
    Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center, University of Toledo Health Science Campus, Toledo, OH
  • Yoshinori Higuchi, MD, PhD
    Department of Neurological Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
  • Dee Khuntia, MD, FASTRO
    Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company, Palo Alto, CA
  • 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
  • Neelan J. Marianayagam, MD, PhD, MBA, FEBNS
    Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
  • 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
  • Vaibhav Sharma, MD
    Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
  • Helen Shih, MD, Ms, MPH, FASTRO
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School,Boston, MA
  • Bob Sinha, MD
    El Camino Hospital/Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Mountain View, CA
  • Konstantin V. Slavin, MD
    Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Ethan Taub, MD
    Basel University Hospital and Swiss Neuro Radiosurgery Institute, Zurich, Germany
  • 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
  • Georg Weidlich, Ph.D., DABR, FACRO
    National Medical Physics and Dosimetry Company, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

Industry Representatives

  • Seth Blacksburg, MD, MBA
    Chief Medical Officer, Accuray
  • Vincent Denot
    VP and Head of Product Management Neuro Solutions, Elekta
  • 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
  • George Weidlich, PhD, DABR, FACRO
    Radiation Oncology Physicist, Zap Surgical

Program Coordinator

Wendy Burman
Email: wburman@therss.org



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