About Our Team
Our team of specialists is among the most experienced in the country.
Since opening in 1999, we also have become one of the busiest Gamma Knife centers in the country, having treated more than 1,500 patients through summer 2005.
Edward G. Shaw, M.D. (who helped establish a similar Gamma Knife program at the Mayo Clinic in 1989) and Charles L. Branch, Jr., M.D., established the program at Wake Forest Baptist in 1999 and recruited Stephen B. Tatter, M.D., Ph.D., from Harvard Medical School to be co-director of the Gamma Knife program. The team includes Thomas L. Ellis, M.D., who trained at the radiosurgery facility at the University of Florida in Gainesville; Kevin P. McMullen, M.D. who completed radiosurgery training at the University of Pittsburgh, and Steven S. Glazier, M.D., who completed radiosurgery training at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Gamma Knife Team Team Videos
Co-chairs of the Gamma Knife Program
Stephen B. Tatter, M.D., Ph.D., Neurosurgery
Allan F. deGuzman, PhD., Radiological Physics
Team Members
Charles L. Branch, Jr., M.D., Neurosurgery
Thomas L. Ellis, M.D., Neurosurgery
Steve Glazier, M.D., Neurosurgery
Kevin McMullen, M.D., Radiation Oncology
Edward G. Shaw, M.D., Radiation Oncology
J. Daniel Bourland, Ph.D., Radiological Physics
Kenneth E. Ekstrand, Ph.D., Radiological Physics
Lisa Wilkins, R.N., Stereotactic Coordinator
Darrell Sloan, RT-R, CT, MR, Stereotactic Coordinator
Rodney Rogers, Stereotactic Technician
Monica Ditmer, PA-C, Physician Assistant for Dr. Ellis
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.