Robert Keating, MD - MAB Chair
Robert Keating, MD is currently the McCullough Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery and Chief of Neurosurgery at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Keating graduated from Georgetown University Medical School in 1983 and subsequently went to New York where he did his training in Neurosurgery at the Albert Einstein and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
Brian J. Dlouhy, MD, Research Committee Chair
Brian Dlouhy is a pediatric and adult neurosurgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and University of Iowa Children’s Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Iowa working extensively under Dr. Arnold Menezes. He now works side by side with Dr. Arnold Menezes treating all disorders of the craniovertebral junction (CVJ) in children and adults.
Gerald A Grant, MD
Gerald Grant, M.D., an internationally known surgeon-scientist, has been named the new Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Duke University School of Medicine, effective April 1, 2022.
Grant returns to Duke from Stanford University, where he is currently an endowed professor and chief of pediatric neurosurgery.
In 2006, Grant joined Duke’s faculty as an associate professor in the Department of Surgery after serving in active duty in the United States Air Force. He was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He left Duke in 2013 to become chief of pediatric neurosurgery and vice chair of neurosurgery at Stanford. He also serves an Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Stanford.
John Heiss, MD - Chairman
John D. Heiss, M.D. is a Senior Clinician, the Head of the Clinical Unit of the Surgical Neurology Branch, and Program Director of the Neurological Surgery Residency Training Program at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. He is actively involved in clinical and translational research to improve the understanding and treatment of Chiari I malformation, syringomyelia, pain, brain tumors, and Parkinson’s disease. He is board-certified in neurological surgery and an expert in supervising and conducting clinical trials for CNS disorders. Dr. Heiss received his B.S. in Biomedical Sciences and M.D. from the University of Michigan. In addition, he completed his surgical internship and residency in neurosurgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Before joining NINDS, Dr. Heiss was Co-Director of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at the University of Cincinnati.
Bermans Iskandar, MD
Dr. Iskandar is Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. His areas of clinical expertise include Chiari malformation and syringomyelia, spina bifida occulta, brachial plexus reconstruction, and endoscopic surgery for tumors and congenital brain anomalies. His contributions to research includes the introduction of novel imaging techniques aimed at minimizing the radiation exposure of children with hydrocephalus, and analysis of craniocervical CSF flow in children with Chiari malformation and syringomyelia. Dr. Iskandar has committed a large portion of his time to run a translational research laboratory, in which he studies ways to repair the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) after injury. This has significant impact on patients with Chiari and syringomyelia, who suffer from motor and sensory dysfunction as well as pain. In his studies, Dr. Iskandar’s group has uncovered a crucial link between the folate pathway, epigenetics, and CNS repair. At ASAP 2017, he will be presenting a review of epigenetics and its role in nervous system diseases.
Cormac O. Maher, MD
Cormac O. Maher, MD, Botha Chan Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Chief of Neurosurgery, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford
Cormac O. Maher, MD, has been named pediatric neurosurgery division chief at Stanford Department of Neurosurgery. His appointment started on March 1, 2023.
Dr. Maher’s areas of clinical interest include the surgical treatment of Chiari Malformation, arteriovenous malformations, Moyamoya disease, cavernous malformations, pediatric brain tumors, spinal dysraphism, tethered spinal cord, and hydrocephalus.
Erol Veznedaroglu, MD, FACS, FAANS FAHA,
Erol Veznedaroglu, MD, FACS, FAANS, FAHA, or Dr. Vez, is one of the nation’s most innovative and experienced vascular, dual-trained neurosurgeons. He is director of the Drexel Neurosciences Institute and holds the Robert A. Groff Chair in Neurosurgery. Dr. Vez is also Chair of Global Neurosciences Institute, LLC (GNI) leading a team of some of the nation’s most experienced neurosurgeons specializing in comprehensive care including vascular, tumor, spine and functional neurosurgery, as well as a consortium of neuroscience physicians providing subspecialty neurology and comprehensive pain management clinical services.
Ann Berger, MD
Ann Berger, MD
Chief of Pain and Palliative Care Service
National Institute of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
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Ian Heger, MD
Ian M Heger is a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon the Medical City Dallas Pediatric Neurosurgery, in Dallas, TX. with a vast amount of experience in clinical practice and academia. Dr Heger earned his doctor of medicine and served as a resident of neurosurgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He completed his fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Heger was named as part of America’s Top Surgeons in 2008, 2009 and 2012 and “Super Doctor” South Florida edition in 2008 and 2009. He serves on several prestigious healthcare committees and is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American College of Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Arnold Menezes, MD
Professor and Vice Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Iowa City, Iowa
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John J. Oró, MD
Medical Director, The Neurosurgery Center of Colorado
Founder Chiari Treatment Center
Aurora, Colorado
Roger Kula, MD
Medical Director
The Chiari Institute
Great Neck, New York
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Ulrich Batzdorf, MD – Emeritus Member
Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Spine Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, California
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