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Ian Pollack

Ian Pollack

Program: Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

412-692-6580 ian.pollack@chp.edu Rangos Research Center, 6th floor
4401 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh PA
Summary

Prior to joining the faculty of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, Dr. Ian Pollack was awarded the 1991 Van Wagenen Traveling Fellowship, which afforded him a year of subspecialty training in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the Neuro-Oncology Laboratory of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, and the Laboratory of Tumor Biology of the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Dr. Pollack graduated magna cum laude from Emory University in 1980, where he earned a BS degree in chemistry. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1984, then completed a surgical internship and neurosurgical residency at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Pollack has published more than 400 papers in refereed journals, numerous book chapters and invited papers, and has edited two books on childhood brain tumors. He is co-editor of the recently published book Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery and an accompanying atlas Operative Techniques In Pediatric Neurosurgery. He is currently a principal investigator on numerous NIH and foundation grants focusing on novel therapies for brain tumors and evaluating molecular markers of tumor resistance to therapy. He chaired the CNS Tumor Committee of the Children's Oncology Group from 2000 to 2009, co-chaired the National Cancer Institute Brain Malignancy Steering Committee from 2010-2017, is on the Executive Committee of the NCI-Funded Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, and is the immediate Past-Chair of the American Board of Pediatric Neurosurgery.

Research Interests and Keywords
  • brain tumor clinical trials
  • brain tumor vaccines
  • congenital spinal abnormalities
  • craniofacial surgery
  • Pediatric Neuro-oncology
  • Pediatric neurosurgery
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