Priya Kumthekar, MD

Dr. Kumthekar is a UCNS certified neuro-oncologist from Northwestern University dedicated to patient and care and moving the field of neuro-oncology forward primarily through her leadership on brain metastases and primary brain tumor clinical trials. She is currently involved in and leads many clinical trials including being the overall principal investigator of five investigator-initiated treatment trials as well as the site principal investigator (PI) of over a dozen additional collaborative brain tumor treatment trials in her career to date. Dr. Kumthekar has served as PI for multiple multicenter clinical trials in meningiomas, brain metastases and leptomeningeal metastases. Dr. Kumthekar has teamed with basic scientists both at Northwestern and at other institutions with the goal of translating bench research to advance the field of neuro oncology. She also serves as Neuro Oncology Disease team Leader and the Co-chair of the Scientific Review Committee for the at the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University.