Behnam badie biography

Chief of Neurosurgery & Co-Director, Brain Tumor Program, City of Hope

Behnam Badie, M.D., is an expert in surgical neuro-oncology.

Behnam badie biography

He is chief of the Division of Neurosurgery and co-director of the Brain Tumor Program at City of Hope. He has personally performed more than 3,000 brain tumor operations and has guided the design of and conducted several first-in-human clinical trials involving local delivery of therapeutics into the brain.

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Badie is a physician-scientist with clinical interests in the surgical management of malignant and benign brain tumors, including gliomas, pituitary tumors, meningiomas, skull base tumors, acoustic neuromas and other nervous system tumors.

In addition to caring for his patients, he also dedicates his time to basic and translational research toward finding a cure for malignant brain tumors. His research focuses on brain tumor immunotherapy, and he has been the principal investigator in several first-in-human clinical trials examining the sa