Dr. Gelareh Zadeh is the Dan Chair and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and the Division Head of Neurosurgery at the Toronto Western Hospital. She holds the Wilkins Family Chair in Brain Tumor Research focusing on building surgical clinical trials for brain tumor patients. Internationally, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Neuro-Oncology, an open access journal of Society of Neuro-Oncology and European Association of Neuro-Oncology. She is also Past-President of the Society for Neuro-Oncology.

Dr. Zadeh is the co-director of the Elisabeth Raab Adult Neurofibromatosis Clinic at the University Health Network. Her clinical practice focuses on Skull Base Neuro-Oncology. Her research program focuses on studying the genomics of nervous system tumors, specifically tumors that are typically considered to be benign tumors by world health organization (WHO) classification, however due to intimate and invasion of critical neurological structures pose a considerable challenge for the care of outcome of patients.

Suganth Suppiah is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and a peripheral nerve surgeon at the Toronto Western Hospital. He completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Toronto and a peripheral nerve surgery fellowship under the mentorship of Dr. Rajiv Midha at the University of Calgary. Dr. Suppiah is the recipient of the Elizabeth Raab Early Career Investigator Chair in Neurofibromatosis Research. He was also awarded the prestigious Francis S. Collins Scholar in Neurofibromatosis Clinical and Translational Research award, supporting his early career launch as surgeon-scientist

Suppiah’s clinical focus is treatment of benign and malignant tumors associated with neurofibromatosis, including neurofibromas, schwannomas and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors. Dr Suppiah’s research focus is on uncovering the molecular drivers of oncogenesis and malignant transformation of tumors associated with neurofibromatosis.