Daniel Jay Brat MD, PhD

Dr. Brat received his MD and Ph.D. from the Mayo Medical and Graduate Schools and then completed a residency in Anatomic Pathology and a Fellowship in Neuropathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He joined the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University in 1999, spending 17 years on faculty before accepting the position of Magerstadt Professor and Chair of Pathology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Pathologist-in-Chief of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Brat is Board certified in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology. His clinical practice includes Surgical Neuropathology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and his expertise is on diffuse gliomas, including glioblastoma. He has co-authored two textbooks in Neuropathology: Practical Surgical Neuropathology: A Diagnostic Approach, and Biopsy Interpretation of Central Nervous System. He has been involved with the WHO Classification of Brain Tumors since 2000 and co-authored 9 chapters in the 2016 edition.