MENINGIOMA DOCTORS
The Meningioma Center Doctors
The Meningioma Center was created by leading physicians with more than 20 years of surgical experience. Thus, the team has performed over 1000 meningioma cases to provide advanced, comprehensive management of patients with meningioma. We have assembled a multidisciplinary team including Neurosurgery, Neurotology, Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Oculoplastic Surgery, Neuroradiology, Neuro anesthesiology, and Radiation Oncology to provide state-of-the-art treatments for meningioma.
All of our Meningioma Center Doctors and surgeons are board-certified with extensive training in meningioma tumor conservative treatments. The Center for Meningioma Surgery team works together to determine the most appropriate treatment option for each individual patient and tumor. This meningioma surgery team has the skill and experience to treat any type of meningioma. They specialize from the least complex superficial meningioma to the most challenging, deep skull base meningioma. All the while giving their patients the best chance of a successful outcome while minimizing risks.
Founder
Caetano Coimbra, MD, MSc, FACS
Co-director Skull Base Center, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Director Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery, Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, TX
Founder of the Meningioma Center, Dallas, TX
Dr. Caetano Coimbra has over 20 years of commitment to excellence and innovation in the treatment of meningiomas. Dr. Coimbra is the Director of the Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery Center at Medical City Dallas. He is also the Co-Director of the Skull Base Center at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. And he is the founder The Meningioma Center. The center brings together a team of sub-specialized physicians to remove meningiomias. These specialities are Neurosurgeons, ENT, Head and Neck surgeons, Oculoplastic surgeon, Neuroradiologist and Radiation Oncologists committed to excellence in the management of meningiomas. Dr Coimbra neurosurgical practice is almost exclusively dedicated to treatment of brain tumors and skull base surgery. Over the years this tertiary practice has fostered the opportunity to refine several surgical techniques for resection of meningioma. These surgical modifications have permitted maximization of favorable outcomes and minimization of brain injury during meningioma surgery. Dr Coimbra is an International lecturer on meningioma and has published surgical innovations on meningioma surgery in the most prestigious peer review neurosurgical and ENT journals in US. Dr. Coimbra has personally operated on over 1000 meningioma tumors during his years of practice. Please, take your time to read his last publication and Newsletters on meningioma surgery.
Yoav Hahn, MD – Surgeon
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Director, Neurotology and Lateral Skull Base Surgery, Dallas, TX
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Chief, Division of Otolaryngology, Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, TX
Dr. Yoav Hahn completed a skull base surgery fellowship at the prestigious Michigan Ear Institute He is Director of Neurotology/Lateral Skull Base Surgery at Baylor University Medical Center and is Chief of Otolaryngology at Medical City Dallas Hospital.
Dr. Yoav Hahn has been a practicing Otolaryngologist and Neurotologist/Skull Base Surgeon for over 12 years. Dr. Hahn has committed his practice to provide the best care to patients with complex skull base tumors in the most minimally invasive and innovative way. He has extensive experience in the evaluation and surgical treatment of meningiomas involving the hearing and balance nerve in the skull base. His expertise has been crucial in the comprehensive care offered at the Meningioma Center, particularly in the evaluation and management of patients with hearing loss caused by skull base meningiomas. He often works in tandem during surgery with the neurosurgical team to provide surgical approaches through the ear bone to highly complex skull base meningiomas. These approaches allows for direct access to these tumors without undue mobilization or retraction of the brain parenchyma.
Amol Madhav Bhatki, MD – Meningioma Center Surgeon
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Chief of the Division of ENT at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Co-Medical Director of the Skull Base Center, Dallas, TX
Dr. Amol Bhatki completed his ENT residency training at the University of California – San Francisco. There he developed an interest in head and neck tumors and cultivated an aptitude for minimally invasive approaches. He is fellowship-trained in Oncologic Cranial Base Surgery from the University of Pittsburgh where he acquired expertise in both traditional open cranial base surgery, as well as the expanded endonasal endoscopic approaches.
Dr. Amol Bhatki has been a practicing Otolaryngologist/Head and Neck Surgeon and Skull Base Surgeon for over 12 years. Dr. Bhatki has committed his practice to provide the best care to patients with complex skull base tumors using minimally invasive transnasal endoscopic surgical technics. His expertise has been crucial in the comprehensive care offered at the Meningioma Center, particularly in the evaluation and surgical management of anterior skull base meningiomas requiring endoscopic transnasal approaches to skull base meningiomas or when these tumors extends into the paranasal sinus. He often works in tandem with the neurosurgical team during surgery to provide the endocopic endonasal approaches to highly complex skull base meningiomas. These approaches allows for direct access to these tumors without undue mobilization or retraction of the brain parenchyma or external visible incisions.
Grant Gilliland, MD – Meningioma Center Surgeon
Oculoplastic Surgery
Associate Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
Director of Orbital Surgery at the Skull Base Surgery Center / Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
After pursuing an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Baylor University, he attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He graduated at the top of his class and became a member of Alpha Omega Alpha – Honor Medical Society. His training continued at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas in an Internal Medicine internship followed by an Ophthalmology residency. He is presently board certified in Ophthalmology.
Dr. Gilliland is actively engaged in teaching resident doctors in Ophthalmology, Maxillofacial surgery, and several other specialties at Baylor Medical Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Gilliland is an expert on orbital surgery and has extensive experience in the evaluation and surgical treatment of meningiomas with invasion of the orbit. His expertise has been crucial in the comprehensive care offered at the Meningioma Center, particularly in the management of patients with vision loss caused by meningioma involvement of the optic nerves or when there is orbital invasion by the tumor. He often works in tandem with the neurosurgical team in surgery of meningiomas affecting the intracranial and the orbital compartments of the skull base.
Brian Rodgers, MD – Surgeon
Skull Base Surgeon / Neurotologist
Dr. Rodgers is a board-certified otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon with specialized training in otology, neurotology, and skull base surgery. He specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of ear and skull base disorders in children and adults.
Dr. Rodgers attended college at Texas A&M University-Commerce and graduated summa cum laude with degrees in biology and chemistry. He obtained his doctorate of medicine with honors from Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Rodgers completed residency training in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. He then completed fellowship training in otology, neurotology, and lateral skull base surgery at the Michigan Ear Institute in Detroit.
Dr Brian Rodgers has extensive experience in the evaluation and surgical treatment of meningiomas involving the hearing and balance nerve in the skull base. His expertise has been has added to the comprehensive care offered at the Meningioma Center, particularly in the evaluation and management of patients with hearing loss caused by skull base meningiomas. He often works in tandem during surgery with the neurosurgical team to provide surgical approaches through the ear bone to highly complex skull base meningiomas. These approaches allows for direct access to these tumors without undue mobilization or retraction of the brain parenchyma.
.John O’Connor, MD – Meningioma Center Radiologist
Neuro Radiation Oncologist
Medical director of the Medical City CyberKnife Center, Dallas, TX
Dr. O’Connor specializes in radiation oncology and is board certified by the American Board of Radiology. He practices radiation oncology and sub-specializes in stereotactic radiosurgery. He has performed more than 1,000 radiosurgical procedures utilizing CyberKnife, Gamma Knife, and LINAC-based platforms. He has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings discussing his radiosurgery expertise. Prior to joining Texas Oncology, Dr. O’Connor served as medical director of radiosurgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and assistant professor at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans.
Dr. John O’Connor radiosurgery expertise has been crucial to the comprehensive care offered at the Meningioma center. Radiosurgery is used in our center as the primary treatment of meningiomas or as an adjunct treatment to post-operative residual tumor in hard-to-reach sensitive locations. This collaborative multimodal approach has maximized long term control of complex meningiomas and functional preservation.
Manu Gupta, MD – Meningioma Center Radiologist
Neuroradiologist
Dr. Manu Gupta M.D. has been practicing nearly exclusively neuroradiology in Dallas since 2004. After graduating from high school, he attended the combined BA/MD program at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Upon finishing medical school, he completed a 5-year radiology residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. During residency he developed an early interest in Neuroradiology, leading him to pursue a 2-year fellowship in Neuroradiology at New York University. Immediately after his fellowship he took a job as an instructor of Radiology back at Northwestern but after a short period moved to Dallas.
Dr. Gupta, during his training and afterward, has had a permanent interest in head and neck radiology and gravitated toward learning this difficult part of neuroradiology. Because of his clinical exposure to complex and difficult cases and working relationships with high-level skull base surgeons he has had the fortune to become a local expert in of skull base radiology.
Dr. Gupta expertise and collaboration have been crucial in the comprehensive car offered at the Meningioma Center when small details are of critical importance in the pre-operative and post-operative evaluation and management of patients.
Joshua Cody Page, MD – Surgeon
Skull Base Surgeon / Neurotologist
Dr. Page is a board-certified otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon specializing in otology, neurotology, and skull base surgery. He specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of skull base disorders for children and adults.
Dr. Page attended college at Texas A&M University and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in finance. He obtained his doctorate of medicine from UT Southwestern Medical School. He completed residency training in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Following residency, he completed fellowship training in otology, neurotology, and lateral skull base surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center.
Dr. Page has extensive experience in the evaluation and surgical treatment of meningiomas involving the hearing and balance nerve in the skull base. Moreover, his expertise has added to the comprehensive care offered at the Center for Meningioma Surgery, particularly in evaluating and managing patients with hearing loss caused by skull base meningiomas.
He often works in tandem with the neurosurgical team to provide surgical approaches through the ear bone to complex skull base meningiomas. These approaches allow direct access to these tumors without undue mobilization or retraction of the brain parenchyma.