Course Chairs
Mitchel S. Berger, MD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurological Surgery
Course Director
University of California, San Francisco
Praveen V. Mummaneni, MD, MBA
Joan O'Reilly Endowed Professor; Vice Chair of Neurosurgery;
Co-director, UCSF Spine Center
Department Chair
Edward F. Chang, MD
Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Course Faculty
(University of California, San Francisco unless indicated)
Manish K. Aghi, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Neurological Surgery
Director, Center for Minimally Invasive Skull Base Surgery
Nima Alan, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Aaron Clark, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Anthony DiGiorgio, DO
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Medical Director Neurosurgery
Co-Director of the Sheri Sobrato Brisson Brain Cancer
Survivorship Program
Line Jacques, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery;
Director of Peripheral Nerve and Pain Surgery;
Associate Program Director
Andrew Jea, MD, MBA, MHA
Professor & Interim Chair
Department of Neurosurgery
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Co-Director of Pediatric Neurosciences
Oklahoma Children's Hospital
Giuseppe Lanzino, MD
Neurosurgeon
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
James K. Liu, MD, FACS, FAANS
Director, Skull Base Institute of New Jersey
Cerebrovascular, Skull Base & Pituitary Surgery
Neurosurgeons of New Jersey
NYU Langone Neurosurgery Network
Director, Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery
Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center
RWJ Barnabas Health
Livingston, New Jersey
Ramin Morshed, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Skull Base Translational Research
Nader Pouratian, MD
Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Daniel Raper, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery,
Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
W. Zachary Ray, MD, PhD
Executive Vice-Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering
Chief, Division of Spine Surgery
Director, Peripheral Nerve Fellowship
Rajiv Saigal, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Director of SCI Clinical Trials
UCSF Neurological Surgery
Weill Neurohub Investigator
Luis Savastano, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Jason Patrick Sheehan, MD
Professor, Neurological Surgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Philip Starr MD, PhD
Dolores Cakebread Professor of Neurological Surgery
Peter Sun, MD
Professor, Neurological Surgery
Lee A. Tan, MD
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Co-Director of UCSF Spine Center
University of California, San Francisco
Jennie Taylor, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Doris Wang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery
Ethan Winkler MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Jacob Young, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences