Lisa M. Deangelis MD, FAAN

Lisa M. DeAngelis, MD, FAAN,came to Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center as a fellow in neuro-oncology and joined the faculty in 1986. She became chair of the department of neurology in 1997. She holds the Lillian Rojtman Berkman Chair in honor of Dr. Jerome Posner and is also the co-executive director of the MSKCC Brain Tumor Center. DeAngelis has published extensively on a wide variety of topics in neuro-oncology and is the author with Posner ofThe Neurological Complications of Cancer.DeAngelis is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and of the American Neurological Association (ANA) where she served as first vice president. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the AAN and recently completed two terms as vice-president. She has been the chair of the Science Committee since 2011, and continues to serve in that capacity. She has served on numerous committees of the ANA, AAN, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). She is a member of the editorial board ofNeurology®Neuro-oncologyandJournal of Neuro-Oncology.She has received awards for her work, including the 2009 Gary Lichtenstein Humanitarian Award from Voices Against Brain Cancer. DeAngelis has recently been elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies