Recommended Institutions, Neurosurgeons, Neuro-oncologists

It occurred to me that we need a listing of preferred institutions and doctors by general area.  I'll start with a few suggestions of my own, but please add your nominees in the comments and I'll edit the list accordingly.  Once we get a good list going, I'll make a page out of it for easy reference at the top of the blog.

NORTH AMERICA - WEST

Institutions: UCLA (Los Angeles), Cedars-Sinai (Los Angeles), UCSF (San Francisco), Swedish Medical Center (Seattle)

Neurosurgeons:  Linda Liau (UCLA), Mitchel Berger (UCSF), Keith Black (Cedars-Sinai), Charles Cobbs (Swedish), Brian Toyota (Vancouver, Canada),

Neuro-oncologists:  Timothy Cloughesy (UCLA), Albert Lai (UCLA), Santosh Kesari (John Wayne Cancer Institute at Providence Saint John's Health Center), Jethro Hu (Cedars-Sinai)




NORTH AMERICA - EAST

Institutions: Duke University (North Carolina), University of Florida (Gainesville), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston), Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), Cleveland Clinic, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York), Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)

Neurosurgeons: Allan Friedman (Duke), John Boockvar (Lenox Hill Hospital, New York),

Neuro-oncologists: Roger Stupp (Northwestern), Eric Wong (Beth Israel Deaconess), Benjamin Purow (University of Virginia)



EUROPE

Institutions: German Cancer Research Center - DKFZ Heidelberg

Neuro-surgeons: Hugues Duffau (Neurosciences Institute of Montpellier, France; supratotal resection of low grade gliomas)