UCLA
Los Angeles, California, United States
LINDA M. LIAU, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor and W. Eugene Stern Chair
Chair & Executive Medical Director, Department of Neurosurgery
David Geffen School of Medicine & UCLA Health
Director, UCLA Brain Tumor SPORE
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Linda M. Liau is Professor and W. Eugene Stern Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is the Co-Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Center, and Principal Investigator and Director of the NCI-designated UCLA Brain Tumor SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence). In 2018, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). She served as a Board Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery (2014 – 2020), and was the first woman Chair of the ABNS (2019-2020). She was also the first woman President of the Western Neurosurgical Society (WNS), and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology (2007 - 2018).
