Brian Na, MD PhD

We’re proud to be partnering with Montage Health to bring advanced neurosurgical care to the Monterey Bay Area! At the first annual Monterey Neuroscience Symposium, experts from our team described the innovations reshaping the treatment of brain tumors, stroke & spinal disorders.

We’re pleased to welcome Martin van den Bent, MD, PhD, as an adjunct professor! In addition to mentoring faculty and residents, he is helping increase @UCSF's role in large international clinical trials: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/new-neuro… @UCSFHospitals @ErasmusMC @EANOassociation

What a great #NF1 Family Symposium at @ChildrensLA! Thankful for the invitation to present on Transition to Adult Care & Adult/#AYA #NF1 Care by the CHLA NF Team - I learned a lot too. Grateful for our dedicated community; I definitely do not miss the traffic, though! #EndNF

More than five years later, @Cronutt1 is still seizure-free and living his best life @sixflagsDK after receiving an experimental therapy with transplanted interneuron progenitor cells developed by the @BarabanLab: youtu.be/hZpFH5J5lbo @UCSF @Claire_Simeone @UCI_EpiCenter

Holding the fort down at @NeurosurgUCSF #NeuroOnc Day after #Christmas Fri-YAY clinic with fellow junior faculty! Missing @JennieWTaylor (who is on a much needed vacation but still answering emails, lol). Happy to report that all patients were seen and cared for. :)

Congratulations to @UCSF physician scientist @sjohnliu for being named one of this year's @sontagfdn Distinguished Scientists! 🎉 This award supports his lab's research using functional genomics to study treatment resistance in #glioblastoma: neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-phys… @UCSFRadOnc

NF1 is frequently mutated in #glioblastoma, yet therapies targeting this alteration often fall short. @VasuLabUCSF & team @UCSF now show NF1 mutant glioblastomas exhibit prognostic signatures with distinct sensitivity to MEK inhibition: insight.jci.org/articles/view/…

@AshleySumrallMD @ucsfhealth @VasuLabUCSF @UCSF @NeurosurgUCSF @UCSFChildrens @UCSFBenioffOAK @UCSF_PBC @ChildrensTumor @5Reddys @NeuroOnc Thank you! Those rapid sessions are very rapid! 😂

@bnamdphd @ucsfhealth @VasuLabUCSF @UCSF @NeurosurgUCSF @UCSFChildrens @UCSFBenioffOAK @UCSF_PBC @ChildrensTumor @5Reddys @NeuroOnc Fantastic!!

On behalf of our #Neurofibromatosis Program, I was honored to present our initial findings at #SNO2025 on our 369 #NF1 patient cohort at @ucsfhealth - looking forward to building on these findings with @VasuLabUCSF and colleagues at @UCSF & beyond. #EndNF

Looking forward to working with Chris and her amazing team to applying what she and our Neuro-Cognitive Team has learned for our pediatric brain tumor survivors! #pediatricbraintumors

Zora Arum from @LabRaleigh presenting on the development and implementation of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary #meningioma program at #sno2025. @NeurosurgUCSF @UCSFRadOnc @UCSF @UCSFCancer

.@NeuroOnc president-elect Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, giving a beautiful overview of advances in mapping and image-guided neurosurgery for brain tumors. Surgical goals have evolved with better subgroup analysis and techniques have evolved alongside to maximize safey. #SNO2025

David Raleigh, MD, PhD, presenting data from @LabRaleigh on genomic profiling of over 1000 consecutive, prospective meningiomas to a full house at #SNO2025. Understanding the molecular alterations of these tumors is leading to better biomarkers of treatment response.

An inspiring keynote lecture by @UCSFChildrens pediatric neuro-oncologist Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD, on her work with @PNOC_kids to launch international clinical trials of effective combination therapies for children diagnosed with #DIPG and #DMG. #UCSFProud #SNO2025

Congrats to Saritha Krishna, PhD, for winning the Cancer Neuroscience Abstract Award at #SNO2025 for her research in the Hervey-Jumper lab! Check it out here➡️ virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/74646/su…

A huge congratulations to Susan Chang, MD, for receiving the 2025 Lisa DeAngelis Award for Excellence in Neuro-Oncology Education! 🎉🥇The award recognizes her extraordinary impact on training the next generation of brain tumor researchers. #SNO2025

From a crazy call week to jumping right into co-chairing the #SNO2025 Review Course - @JennieWTaylor is a boss! @NeurosurgUCSF

We're looking forward to reconnecting with our colleagues next week at #SNO2025! Check out the full list of presentations from our team of researchers: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-expe… @LabRaleigh @ManishKAghi @jakeyoung11 @josephcostell14 @VasuLabUCSF @Dr_PViswanath @bnamdphd @NeuroOnc

Learned so much at the #NF2 Conference co-chaired by my doctoral advisor @MarcoGiovannini - always great to see and hear from @Leia_N_MD & @PlotkinScott, meeting colleagues from around the world. So many ideas for our team back at @NeurosurgUCSF! #EndNF

Loss of federal funding means fewer experimental treatment options for kids with some cancers. Dr. @WilliamTempleMD tells @KQED that treatments have come a long way since the 1960s: "That improvement is because of clinical trials in pediatric cancer." ucsfh.org/4o3EQ2S