Lakshmi Nayak MD

Lakshmi Nayak, MD, a neuro-oncologist in the Center for Neuro-Oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She has a special interest in PCNSL and has helped to establish a referral base at DFCI for patients with this rare cancer. Over her last 4 years at DFCI, the volume of patients with PCNSL and secondary CNSL seen in the center for neuro-oncology clinic and admitted to the in-patient service for chemotherapy has increased. She is the site PI for a multicenter randomized trial for the treatment of newly diagnosed PCNSL.