Professional Activity

Practice Activities

• 1978–2008
  Visiting privileges
  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  Boston, MA
  Neuro-Oncology Consultation privileges
  Part time
• 1977–2008
  Clinical Practice
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, MA
  Neurology and Neuro-Oncology Practice
  Full time
• 1985–
  Principal Clinical and Hospital Service Responsibilities
  Cox Cancer Center Committee, Massachusetts General Hospital
  Brain Tumor Center Committee
  12 hours/year

Other Activity

• Principal Investigator (PI), NIH Director’s Common Fund Initiative for Biomarkers or Exosomal RNA Origin
• Organizing Committee Chair and Treasurer, International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV), Boston April 16–21, 2013
• 1970–1972
  Acting Chief, Neurotropic Disease Section
  Centers for Disease Control
  Atlanta, GA

Committee Service

• 1980–1995
  Member, Cancer Center Committee
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, MA
• 1995–
  Member, Neuro-Oncology Professional Committee
  Massachusetts General Hospital
  Boston, MA
• 1985–
  Advisory Panel
  The Association for Brain Tumor Research, Chicago, Ill., Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, Glioma Outcome Project of North America Food and Drug Administration-Orphan Drug Program
• 1994–
  Member, NABTT (Brain Tumor Therapy)
  NCI Consortium
• 1988–
  Collaborator, Cancer Treatment Evaluation Program (CTEP)
  NIH
• 1995–2000
  Board, Central Brain Tumor Registry USA
  Ad hoc Member, Organ System Advisory Committee (Brain)
• 2013–
  Chair, DataSharing and Biorepository Committee, NIH Common Fund Extracellular Vesicles Program
• 2013–
  Board, International Society Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV)
• 2014–
  Treasurer, ISEV and Organizer ISEV 2015 Meeting

Professional Societies

• 1975–1985
  Member, American Academy of Neurology
• 1975–1985
  Member, American Neurologic Association
• 1994–
  Member, NCI Consortium
  NABTT (Brain Tumor Therapy)
• 2009–
  Member, Massachusetts Neurologic Society

Grant Review Activities

• 1985
  External Scientific Reviewer
  Duke University Medical Center
• 1988
  External Scientific Reviewer
  Johns Hopkins Medical Center
• 1992–
  Ad hoc reviewer, applications for review of clinical trials activities in brain tumors, gene therapy studies, imaging and quality of life endpoints. Approximately 15 reviews performed.
  NCI, NINDBS RO-1, PO-1, P50
• 1994–1996
  External Scientific Reviewer
  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (for the American Cancer Society)
• 1995–
  Scientific Advisory Board grants reviewer
  American Brain Tumor Association and Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States

Editorial Activities

I have served as an ad hoc reviewer for the following publications:

• 1978–
  New England Journal of Medicine
• 1978–
  Cancer
• 1978-
  Journal Clinical Oncology
• 1978–
  Neurology
• 1978–
  Neuro-Oncology
• 1985–
  Journal Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
• 2005–
  Neuroimaging

Other Editorial Activities

• 2002–
  Editorial Board
  Neuro-Oncology