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<p>E. Antonio “Nino” Chiocca, MD, PhD serves as the Chair of Neurosurgery for the integrated Department of Neurosurgery at Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute and the Executive Director of the Center for Nervous System Tumors for the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute.  Frome 2012 to 2024, he served as the Neurosurgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham & Women's Hospital and as the Harvey W. Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School since 2012. Prior to these roles, Dr. Chiocca held assistant professor and associate professor faculty positions at Massachusetts General Hospital and in 2004, became the first Chairman of the newly developed Department of Neurological Surgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center, where he held the Dardinger Family Endowed Chair in Oncological Neurosurgery. He is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School and completed his neurosurgery residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital.</p> <p>Dr. Chiocca was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014. He is the current president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) (2026-2027). He is past president of the Society for Neuro-oncology (SNO) (2015-2017), of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery (AAcNS) (2018-2019), and of the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) (2023-2024). He is deeply interested both in the biological basis of brain cancer and in designing experimental therapeutics. His current funding includes being the Principal Investigator of two separate NCI Program project grants and 2 NIH R01s. His lab is focusing on developing novel immune and genetic therapies, and on the role of noncoding RNAs in brain tumor biology. Dr. Chiocca has led multi-institutional clinical trials for gene and viral therapies in malignant gliomas, including holding INDs as Sponsor/PI, has served on NIH study sections, has been a member of the federal recombinant DNA Advisory Committee and has been a member of the NINDS Scientific Advisory Council. </p>
Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgery

Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurosurgery, 1995

Internship: University of Texas Health Science Center, General Surgery, 1989

Medical Education: University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 1988

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