Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, MBA

Dr. Linda M. Liau is Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at UCLA.

Preferred Name: Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD, MBA

Professor and Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Program. Dr. Liau's clinical expertise is in intra-operative functional brain mapping and use of intra-operative imaging for resection of brain tumors (gliomas, meningiomas, and metastatic tumors). Her research efforts are focused on the molecular biology of brain tumors, gene therapy, immunotherapy, and brain cancer vaccines.

Dr. Liau is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology.

Hospital Position

• Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
• Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
• Director, Brain Tumor Program, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Membership, Medical Organizations

• American Association of Neurological Surgery
• American Association of Cancer Research
• American Association of Neurological Surgery
• American Society of Gene Therapy
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• Society for Neuro-Oncology
• Women in Neurosurgery

Additional Education

• Masters Business Administration, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2016

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