Our Team
Chair
John Kestle, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Principal Investigators
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John Kestle, MD
Primary Children’s Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah
Chair of the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network -
Abhaya V. Kulkarni, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chair of the HCRN Scientific Committee -
Curtis Rozzelle, MD
The Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
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Brandon Rocque, MD
The Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
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William E. Whitehead, MD, MPH
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
Chair of the HCRN Membership Committee -
Jason Hauptman, MD, PhD
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington
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Samuel R. Browd, MD, PhD
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington
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Jennifer Strahle, MD
St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
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Ian Pollack, MD
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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John C. Wellons, III, MD, MPSH
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee
Chair of the HCRN Bylaws Committee -
Robert Naftel, MD
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee
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Mandeep S. Tamber, MD, PhD, FRCSC
British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Jay Riva-Cambrin, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Jonathan Pindrik, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
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Mark Krieger, MD
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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Jason Chu, MD, MSc
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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Tamara D. Simon, MD, MSPH
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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Eric Jackson, MD
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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Todd Hankinson, MD
Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
Clinical Research Site Coordinators
Ruksana Rashid
Alberta Children’s Hospital
Stephen Gannon
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital
Diego Morales
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Nicholas Reinhold
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Hannah Johnson
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Jared Haught
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Allison Ludwick
Primary Children’s Hospital
Joan Yea
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Kimberly Diamond
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Susan Staulcup
Children’s Hospital of Colorado
Hope Willis
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Rosita Thiessen
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Annika Weir
BC Children’s Hospital
Homa Ashrafpour
Hospital for Sick Children
Naghmeh Emami
Hospital for Sick Children
Anastasia Smith
Children’s of Alabama
Tori Holland
Children’s of Alabama
Edgardo Santisbon
Texas Children’s Hospital
Helen Berroya
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
Co-Founder and Executive Committee (Emeritus Members/Co-Founders)
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Paul H. Gross
HCRN Marketing, Finance and Fundraising, Former Board Chair, Hydrocephalus Association, Former Advisor, National Insitute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council
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James Drake, BSE, MB, PhD, BCh, MSc, FRCSC
Chief of Neurosurgery and Professor of Surgery, Harold J Hoffman/Shoppers Drug Mart Chair; Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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Thomas G. Luerssen, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine; Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Chief Quality Officer, Surgery, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas
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W. Jerry Oakes, MD
Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama