The Clinical Neuro-Oncology for the Basic Scientist module provides lectures that focus on clinical trial design, and multi-modality treatment of patients with brain tumors and metastatic disease.  The module features clinicians and researchers with expertise in research and highlights advances made in the fields of neurosurgery and neuroimaging.

Education Committee Chairs: Patrick Wen, Isabel Arrillaga-Romany

Scientific Co-Chair: Nancy Ann Oberheim-Bush

Topics in this track include:

• Clinical Trial Design for the Basic Scientist
• Surgical Techniques and Advances for the Basic Scientist
• Management of Diffuse Lower Grade Gliomas for the Basic Scientist
• Neuroimaging for the basic scientist: challenges and opportunities
• Radiation Oncology
• Metastatic Disease
• High Grade Glioma
• Brain and Leptomeningeal Metastases: from Bench to Bedside to Bench
• Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma: An Update on Diagnosis & Management