Mayo Clinic Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Maciej Mrugala, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAN is a Professor of Medicine and Neurology and Director of the Multidisciplinary Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. He received a medical degree from the University of Warsaw Medical School and a PhD from the Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He completed neurology residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed fellowships in neuro-oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, while concurrently earning a Master in Public Health degree at Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining Mayo Clinic, Dr. Mrugala was the inaugural Alexander M Spence Chair in Neuro-Oncology at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. Dr Mrugala’s expertise is in primary and metastatic brain tumors, primary central nervous system lymphoma, and neurofibromatosis. He co-directs the Children’s Tumor Foundation designated Neurofibromatosis Clinic. He runs multiple therapeutic clinical trials for a variety of neuro-oncologic diagnoses and collaborates extensively with colleagues across the US and abroad. At his institution, he directs Neuro-Oncology fellowship program and enjoys teaching rotating residents and medical students. He is a Chair of the Neuro-Oncology Section of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), serves on the Education Sub-Committee for AAN and on the Fellowship Committee for the Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO). He is a Fellow of the AAN, graduate of the Transforming Leaders Program and creator of the mentorship program for new directors selected by AAN to lead educational courses at the annual meetings. He created the SNO Neuro-Oncology Education Course and led it since it’s first edition in Miami in 2014.
