Patricia Leigh Zadnik Sullivan, MD, is the Director at the Center for Spine Tumor and Chordoma Research with the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute. Dr. Sullivan received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received the Resident Teaching Award, and completed a fellowship in reconstructive spine and spinal oncology at Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Dr. Sullivan maintains an active laboratory to study the development of spinal chordoma and is an assistant professor at The Warren Alpert Medical School.
Konstantina Svokos, DO, MS is a neurosurgeon at Rhode Island Hospital who specializes in pediatric neurosurgery. Her areas of interest are brain tumors, epilepsy, vascular lesions and spinal disorders. She has a particular interest in academics and loves teaching residents and medical students. Dr. Svokos has done both clinical and molecular research throughout her training and her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. Her research focuses on improving treatments and ultimately survival in the uniformly fatal pediatric brain tumor of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. She is originally from Greece, is multilingual and loves to travel. In her free time, she spends time with her family and her beloved french bulldog puppy.
Petra Klinge, MD is an internationally renowned general neurosurgeon specializing in the surgical treatment of patients with brain tumors, hydrocephalus and Alzheimer’s disease, pediatric diseases and treatment of congenital diseases like Chiari and spinal malformations.
Dr. Klinge joined our team as attending neurosurgeon and associate professor at Brown University in 2009. Prior to that, she was professor of neurosurgery at the Medical School Hannover, Germany. She received her medical degree at the University of Kiel in 1993 and completed her neurosurgical residency at Hannover Medical School in Germany in 2002. She was senior associate professor of neurosurgery at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany, where she had the opportunity to be educated by Professor M. Samii, a founder of modern skull base surgery.
Dr. Klinge is an active member of the American Association of Neurosurgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. She is editor in chief of the Elsevier journal Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management (INAT) and associate editor of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery (CNN). She also serves as reviewer for international scientific journals including Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery, Journalof Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry and others. She is past president of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF disorders.
Dr. Klinge’s scientific interests comprise the development of advanced techniques for diagnosing and treatment of dementia, experimental work to advance the understanding of normal aging and dementia and to develop novel biotechnical treatment approaches including stem cell therapy. Her scientific publications are listed by the US National Library of Medicine.