Our team of specialists is among the most experienced in the country.  Since opening in 1999, the Gamma Knife^® Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has become one of the busiest in the country, having treated more than 2,500 patients through 2008.

The program was established by radiation oncologist Edward G. Shaw, MD (who helped establish a similar program at the Mayo Clinic in 1989) and neurosurgeon Charles L. Branch, MD.

Stephen B. Tatter, MD, PhD was recruited from Harvard Medical School to be co-director.

Team members have completed radiosurgery training at prestigious facilities like University of Pittsburgh, Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden and University of Florida at Gainesville.

The team is comprised of specially-trained radiation oncologists, neurosurgeons, medical physicists and nurses who collaborate to create individualized treatments plans for each patient.

The Gamma Knife Team

Co-directors of the Gamma Knife Program

Stephen B. Tatter, MD, PhD, Neurosurgery
Michael Chan, MD, Radiation Oncology
Allan F. deGuzman, PhD, Radiological Physics

Team Members

Charles L. Branch, Jr., MD, Neurosurgery
Thomas L. Ellis, MD, Neurosurgery

Kevin McMullen, MD, Radiation Oncology
Edward G. Shaw, MD, Radiation Oncology

J. Daniel Bourland, PhD, Radiological Physics
Kenneth E. Ekstrand, PhD, Radiological Physics

Lisa Wilkins, RN, Stereotactic Coordinator
Darrell Sloan, RT-R, CT, MR, Stereotactic Coordinator

Rodney Rogers, Stereotactic Technician

Monica Ditmer, PA-C, Physician Assistant for Dr. Ellis

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Physicians may call the PAL line at 1-800-277-7654 to make a referral.

For more information regarding the Gamma Knife Program at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center or for assistance to make an appointment, please contact the Gamma Knife Coordinator - Lisa Wilkins, RN, at toll-free 866-713-3228 or via email at liwilkin@wfubmc.edu.

Wake Forest University's Gamma Knife team is part of its Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program offering a multidisciplinary approach to treating people in a way that emphasizes aggressive lesion eradication and quality-of-life. For brain arteriovenous malformations (AVM), this goal is achieved by close collaboration with experts in the departments of Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology and uses the resources of the Wake Forest AVM Center.