Gelareh Zadeh CRANIA

Dr. Gelareh Zadeh, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FAANS, is Dan Family Chair and Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto. She is Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital and Medical Director for the Krembil Brain Institute at University Health Network. Dr. Zadeh is a Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre where she runs a translational research program at MacFeeters-Hamilton Neuro-oncology Program and holds the Wilkins Family Brain Tumor Research Chair.

Dr. Zadeh has a dedicated neuro-oncology and skull base practice, which includes a number of multidisciplinary specialized programs including a skull base clinic, brain metastases, pituitary clinic, and neurofibromatosis clinics. In parallel, she has an active research laboratory focusing on integrated multi-platform molecular analysis of brain tumors, together with a focus on understanding molecular response to targeted therapies, such as anti-angiogenesis and metabolic inhibitors. She is also involved in a number of national and international organizations. She is President of Society of Neuro-Oncology (SNO), and the past Chair of Neuro-oncology Committee at the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons,

she is the Co-Chair and founder of the International Consortium on Meningiomas (ICOM).

She is the Editor-in-Chief of Neuro-Oncology Advances, open-access journal of SNO and EANO.

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  • Dan Family Chair and Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto
  • Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH), University Health Network (UHN)
  • Medical Director for the Krembil Brain Institute (KBI) at University Health Network (UHN)
  • Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
  • President of Society of Neuro-Oncology (SNO)
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Genomics of the nervous system tumours
  • Tumour angiogenesis
  • Tumour metabolism
  • biobanking
  • Methylation profiling of CNS tumours