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CNI Center for Brain & Spinal Tumors
News & Events
Annual Memorial Lectureship
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"Seeking New Understanding: Novel Approaches to Brain Tumor Therapy"
Linda Liau, MD, PhD
UCLA Department of Neurosurgery; Director, UCLA Brain Tumor Program; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Neuro-Oncology. Learn more about Dr. Liau.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Swedish Medical Center, Spruce Rooms A-B-C
RSVP: Please contact Lorre Gibson, Colorado Neurological Institute, at 303.806.7420 or by e-mail.
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Seeking New Understanding: Novel Approaches to Brain Tumor Therapy
Patients, families, physicians, nurse and others are invited to a March 16, 2012, lecture by a renowned UCLA neurosurgeon. Linda Liau, MD, PhD, Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Program, a member of the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology, will discuss novel approaches to brain tumor therapy. The lecture will be held from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in Spruce Rooms A-B-C at Swedish Medical Center and include a buffet lunch.
Dr. Liau's lecture will be relevant to patients and families as well as health care professionals in neurosurgery, neurology, internal medicine, family practice, radiology, neuro-radiology, oncology, and neuro-oncology, who want to enhance their knowledge of central nervous systems integrative treatments.
RSVP: Please RSVP to Lorre Gibson, Program Coordinator, Colorado Neurological Institute Center for Brain & Spinal Tumors, at 303.806.7420 or by e-mail.
Linda Liau, MD, PhD
Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, is a neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is Vice Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Program at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Liau received her BS degree in Biochemistry and BA degree in Political Science, both with honors, from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1987. She then received her MD degree from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California in 1991, and a PhD degree in Molecular Neuroscience from UCLA in Los Angeles, California in 1999. After completing her residency and fellowship training in neurosurgery at UCLA, she joined the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery in 1998. She was granted tenure at UCLA in 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Neurosurgery. She is currently a full Professor and board-certified neurosurgeon with both an active research laboratory and a busy clinical practice in the field of brain tumors and neurosurgical oncology. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Tumor Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. She has served as a member of several NIH study sections and other grant review committees. Currently, she is Vice Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Brain Tumor Society and serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of the Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research, the Miles for Hope Foundation, and various other brain tumor societies. Dr. Liau serves as Principal Investigator on three NIH R01 grants, and has been a mentor for several NIH training grants (K01, K12, T32) for postdoctoral fellows in her laboratory. Her research interests include translational experimental therapeutics of cell-based therapies for brain tumors and characterization of molecular targets involved in brain tumor pathogenesis and progression. She has published over 75 peer-reviewed research articles, along with several book chapters and a textbook entitled Brain Tumor Immunotherapy (Humana Press). She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology.
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