Our Team

Our Doctors

Our world-class doctors offer unsurpassed experience in Gamma Knife radiosurgery. They lead a team of specialists in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, endocrinology, anesthesiology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-otology, radiation oncology and medical physics to provide world-class care. They include:

Neal Kassell, MD, an expert in neurovascular surgery and innovator in the Gamma Knife treatment of arteriovenous malformations.

Jason Sheehan, MD, co-director of the Gamma Knife Center.

Our Ladislau Steiner, now retired, helped develop the first Gamma Knife 30 years ago, made UVA one of the first five Gamma installations in the world and the United States and pioneered applications for many different conditions, including acoustic neuromas and AVMs, making our center’s experience among the greatest in the world.

These doctors have taught numerous neurosurgeons and radiation oncologists in the use of radiosurgery, many of whom have gone on to start radiosurgical centers in other parts of the world.

Our Team

Radiation Oncology

Tyvin Rich, MD

James Larner, MD

Neuro-Oncology

David Schiff, MD

Benjamin W. Purow, MD

Neuro-Ophthalmology

Steven A. Newman, MD

Neuropathology

M. Beatriz S. Lopes, MD

Neuro-Endocrine Center

John A. Jane, Jr., MD

Mary Lee Vance, MD

Michael Thorner, MD

John C. Marshall, MD

Neuro-Radiology

Avery J. Evans, MD

Mary Lee Jensen, MD

Maurice Lipper, MD

Julie Matsumoto, MD

Neuro-Anesthesia

David Bogdonoff, MD

Marcel Durieux, MD

Edward C. Nemergut, MD

Thomas Pajewski, MD

Zhiyi Zuo, MD

Medical Physics

Alan Aqualino, PhD

David Schlesinger

Clinical Assistants

Selene Boutin, Nurse Practitioner

Charlene Exline, Nurse Practitioner

Marion Harding, Respiratory Therapist

Greg Patterson, RN

Gamma Knife Administrators

Sophie Yu, Gamma Knife administrative director

Rob Ryder, Gamma Knife administrative associate director