Dr. Linda M. Liau is Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at UCLA.
Preferred Name: Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor and Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Program. Dr. Liau's clinical expertise is in intra-operative functional brain mapping and use of intra-operative imaging for resection of brain tumors (gliomas, meningiomas, and metastatic tumors). Her research efforts are focused on the molecular biology of brain tumors, gene therapy, immunotherapy, and brain cancer vaccines.
Dr. Liau is the current Editor-in-Chief of the the Journal of Neuro-Oncology.
Hospital Position
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Director, Brain Tumor Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Membership, Medical Organizations
American Association of Neurological Surgery
American Association of Cancer Research
American Association of Neurological Surgery
American Society of Gene Therapy
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Society for Neuro-Oncology
Women in Neurosurgery
Additional Education
Masters Business Administration, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2016
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