2010 Grand Rounds Faculty

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Faculty

Jethro Hu, MD
Neuro-oncologist, Brain Tumor Center and Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery

Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Principal Investigator, Neuroimmunology Laboratory

Patrick Lyden, MD
Chairman, Department of Neurology; Carmen and Louis Warschaw Chair in Neurology

Shlomo Melmed, MD
Professor of Medicine; Co-Director, Pituitary Center; Dean of the Medical Faculty and Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs; Director, Burns and Allen Research Institute; Helene A. and Philip E. Hixon Chair in Investigative Medicine

Steven Piantadosi, MD
Professor of Medicine; Director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute; The Phase One Foundation Chair in Cancer Research

Ali Shirzadi, MD
Senior Resident, Neurological Surgery Residency Program, Department of Neurosurgery

Clive Svendsen, MD
Director, Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute

Mark Urata, MD, DDS
Craniomaxillofacial Surgeon, Department of Surgery

Guest Faculty

Liana Apostolova, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Steven L. Giannotta, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, California

M. Sean Grady, MD
Charles Harrison Frazier Professor of Neurosurgery; Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery/Neurosurgeon in Chief; Residency Program Director; Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Albert Lai, MD
Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Jorge A. Lazareff, MD
Professor in Residence, Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

J. Gordon McComb, MD
Chief, Division of Neurosurgery, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Nader Pouratian, MD
Assistant Professor; Director, Neurosurgical Movement Disorders Program, Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Los Angeles, California