Ari D. Kappel is a Neurosurgery Resident at the Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham; and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. He earned his B.S. in Neurobiology and Neurosciences at UC San Diego in 2012; served as an Academic Research Fellow at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 2016 to 2017; and received his M.D. from Stony Brook University in 2018.
Dr. William J. Smith is a Neurosurgery Resident at the Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. He earned his B.S. in Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Columbia University in 2016 and received his MD from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in 2022. Additionally, he worked as Bioelectrical Engineering Consultant at Millennium Pain Center from August 2016 to January 2020.
Abdullah H. Feroze received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and has been in practice for 11–20 years. He is a neurosurgeon in Boston, MA, USA, and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including UW Medicine–University of Washington Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He maintains interests in pediatric neuro-oncology, health policy, medical education, biodesign, and global surgery.
Juan Vicenty-Padilla studied for a Bachelor of Science at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez. He then completed his studies in Medicine with a speciality in Neurosurgery at the Medical Sciences Campus in San Juan. Upon completion of residency, he moved to Boston for 2 years to complete a fellowship from Harvard Medical School in Cerebrovascular and Neuroendovascular Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He currently offers his services at the HIMA Hospital • San Pablo Caguas and in the clinics of the School of Medicine of the Medical Sciences Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His interests include Neurocirugía cerebrovascular, neurocirugía endovascular, aneurisms cerebrales, malformations arteriovenosas cerebrales, revascularización cerebral (“bypass”), “stroke”, base de cráneo, and microcirugía.
Rodolfo E. Alcedo Guardia is the Assistant Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is also the Director of Neurosurgery at Hospital Menonita Caguas Inc. He earned his B.S. from the Colegio de La Salle in 1997 and received his M.D. from UAG in 2004.
Dr. Nirav J. Patel is an Attending Surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. He completed his Neurosurgical Residency at the University of Wisconsin, followed by an Open Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery Fellowship at Macquarie University in Australia, as well as an Endovascular Neurosurgery Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Patel is an expert in Brain Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) and Moya Moya disease. He also treats complex cranial pathology, aneurysm, stroke, brain bypass, carotid disease, brain tumors, and skull-base tumors.
Dr. Rose Du is the Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Du’s clinical practice is focused on cerebrovascular diseases, including brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, moyamoya disease, carotid stenosis, cavernous malformations, dural arteriovenous fistulas, brain tumors, skull-base tumors, and trigeminal neuralgia. Dr. Du’s research involves genetics and outcomes studies in cerebrovascular diseases.
Dr. Alfred P. See is a pediatric neurosurgery fellow at Boston Children's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. Early in medical school, he was introduced to neurosurgery via work in glioma immunotherapy. During his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital, he was drawn to the novel endovascular applications for cerebrovascular disease. He spent time in adult and pediatric endovascular neurosurgery, first at Boston Children's and Brigham, and then at Barrow Neurological Institute and a year at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Dr. See now focuses on pediatric neuro-interventions and cerebrovascular surgery. His interests continue to relate to the intersection of these two approaches, in hybrid cerebrovascular surgery and in flow-guided neuro-intervention and cerebrovascular surgery.
Dr. Pier Paolo Peruzzi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Neurosurgery. He holds an appointment as an attending clinical neurosurgeon, as well as a principal investigator in the neuro-oncology research laboratories at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Peruzzi works together with a dedicated support team to provide the best, most timely and compassionate care to patients suffering from neurological disorders, particularly malignant brain tumors. Dr. Peruzzi leads a molecular biology laboratory focused on basic research to find a cure for malignant brain tumors and is also involved in multiple clinical trials for the treatment of brain tumors at the BWH, including oncolytic virotherapy and the use of novel microdevices to guide personalized chemotherapy to patients with brain cancers. Dr. Peruzzi has been continuously supported by NIH funding for his laboratory research since he joined the staff at the Brigham. He received the Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation fellowship from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, as well as the prestigious American Academy of Neurological Surgery Award.
Mohammad A. Aziz-Sultan is currently the Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He completed his training in neurosurgery under the mentorship of world-renowned cerebrovascular surgeons and later went on to cross-train in endovascular under leaders in neuro-interventional radiology. His pursuit of clinical excellence has led him to form multidisciplinary clinics to treat and study patients with cerebrovascular disease through evaluation and input by physicians from different disciplines. His pursuit of scientific innovation has led his team to enroll in several important clinical trials focusing on stroke, novel aneurysm devices, and intracerebral hemorrhages.
Dr. Joshua D. Bernstock is a neurosurgeon in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and has been in practice for 6-10 years. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge. He has been completing his residency in Neurological Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Children's Hospital since 2019. His Research keywords include "brain malignancies", and his specialties are neurosurgery, brain and spinal tumors, and pediatric neurosurgery.
