Education

The staff of the MGH Spine Tumor Clinic are dedicated to providing information about spine and spinal cord tumors to patients and their physicians. Case Conferences, Case Studies, Grand Rounds, and selected book chapters and articles written by center staff members will be made available electronically. Although in some cases the materials were written with a physician audience in mind, the information can be great value to the public.

National Libraries of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed Search

• Dr. Fred Epstein, founding Director of the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Beth Israel Medical center in New York
• Dr. Darell Bigner
• Dr. Michael C.V. Jensen, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the City of Hope National Medical Center and Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute - Topic: Cellular Scalpels Derived From Geneticall Modified Cytolytic T Cells for Excising Invasive Tumor C of Malignant Glioma
• Dr. Roy Patchell, Professor of Surgery within the division of Neurosurgery at the University of Kentucky - Topic: New Developments in the Treatment of Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression
• Dr. J. Gregory Cairncross, Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta - Topic: Oligodendroglioma: at the Intersection of Science and Medicine

Selected Education Links:

• Brian D. Silber Lectureship - First MGH Spine Tumor Lecture
• STC Publications
• BTC Text Book Series
• Grand Rounds - Neurology and Neurosurgery