Facility Redwood City Medical Center Department of Neuro Oncology Address Redwood City Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery 1150 Veterans Boulevard Redwood City CA 94063 Map & Directions Telephone (650) 299-2290 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

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Welcome to my Neuro-Oncology website. I hope it will be of help to you.

Medical background and education. I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and spent my childhood there. I graduated with B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin. I interned in medicine at St. Louis City Hospital and did a neurology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Because of strong research interests, I went to the NIH where I was a Staff Associate in the Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology of the NCI prior to starting my residency. Following my residency, I joined the UCSF faculty in 1972 in the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Neurology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Pharmacology and rose to the rank of Professor. While at UCSF, I became Chief of the Neuro-Oncology Service and worked closely with RWC neurosurgeons over a 15 year period coordinating care for most malignant brain tumor patients seen at RWC.

In 1988 I was asked to build the neuro-oncology program and Chair the Department of Neuro-Oncology for The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. I have been very fortunate to have worked at outstanding institutions with committed, creative, and hard working people and to have been given opportunities to build new clinical and research programs. In that capacity I helped create the largest Neuro-Oncology Department in the western hemisphere and the Departments of Psychiatry, Pain Management, Pain Research, Palliative Care, and Rehabilitation Medicine at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

To date, I have published over 370 articles and book chapters and created and edited the textbook Cancer in the Nervous. I am a member of the Society for Neuro-Oncology and was founder and first president in 1995-97. Other medical affiliations I have are with ASCO, AACR, and AAN.

Why I joined KP. Recently, I retired from the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and joined the KP Redwood City Hospital Department of Neurosurgery on a part-time basis to do clinical neuro-oncology with an emphasis on primary malignant brain tumors. I am quite excited to work with two KP colleagues I had worked with in the 1980s as well as with the current dedicated neuro-oncology team of specialists in neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, radiation oncology, neuropathology, neuroradiology, and nursing.

Practice philosophy. My clinical practice philosophy is to provide the best care for patients with central nervous system (CNS) cancers that I can. This translates to helping the patient achieve the longest survival with the best quality of life possible. This entails using current and late experimental therapies in the most rationale manner for a given patient. It also means helping the patient’s family deal with consequence of having a loved one with a CNS cancer.

Away from work. I enjoy spending time being with my wife, children, and grandchildren. I like to hike and bike the North Coast, will take up painting and sculpture that I have not been able to pursue for the past 15 years, and, hopefully, write a book or two.

My Credentials

Medical school	University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
Internship	St. Louis City Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Residency	Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Board certification	Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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