The Pediatric and Spinal Cord Tumor Center Doctors and Staff

At the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Brain and Spinal Cord Tumor Center, a team of doctors and other health care professionals works together to provide the most effective and safest treatment possible for each child’s brain or spinal cord tumor. Expect highly specialized expertise and cutting-edge treatments, delivered with compassion.

Team members within the Department of Neurosurgery

Neurosurgeons and physician assistants are the main members of your child’s brain tumor care team.

Neurosurgeons

Edward Ahn
Benjamin Carson
George Jallo
Jon Weingart

Pediatric Oncologists

Kenneth Cohen

Physician Assistants

Stephanie Chen
Judy Gates
Heather (Long) Kerber

Other members of the brain tumor care team

Other doctors and health care professionals with special expertise in brain tumors may be part of the child’s brain tumor care team. These could include:

• Neurologists
• Neuroradiologists
• Ophthalmologists
• Critical care doctors and nurses
• Pediatric Oncologists
• Physical and occupational therapists
• Radiologists
• Speech language pathologists

The specific doctors and health care professionals involved will depend on the patient’s tumor, symptoms and treatment.

Social workers will also help coordinate care after the child leaves the hospital.

For more information, contact the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Brain Tumor Center at 410-955-7337.