The 20 Best Brain Tumor Doctors Near Me in Boston, MA

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The 20 Best Brain Tumor Doctors near Boston, MA

Last Updated: 02/22/2026

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MediFind found 278 doctor with experience in Brain Tumor near Boston, MA. Of these, 193 are Experienced, 38 are Advanced, 33 are Distinguished and 13 are Elite.

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    Erik J. Uhlmann
    Elite in Brain Tumor
    Elite in Brain Tumor

    BIDMC Department Of Neurology

    330 Brookline Avenue, Tcc 8, 
    Boston, MA 
     (2.7 miles away)
    Languages Spoken:
    English

    Erik Uhlmann is a Neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Uhlmann is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Metastatic Brain Tumor, Brain Tumor, Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery.

    Patrick Y. Wen
    Elite in Brain Tumor
    Elite in Brain Tumor

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Center For Neuro-Oncology

    450 Brookline Avenue, 
    Boston, MA 
     (2.9 miles away)
    Languages Spoken:
    English
    Offers Telehealth

    Patrick Wen is a Neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Wen is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Glioma, and Brain Tumor.

    Elite in Brain Tumor
    Elite in Brain Tumor

    Massachusetts General Hospital

    55 Fruit St, 
    Boston, MA 
     (0.8 miles away)
    Languages Spoken:
    English
    Offers Telehealth

    Priscilla Brastianos is an Oncologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Brastianos is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Brain Tumor, Metastatic Brain Tumor, Melanoma, and Posterior Fossa Tumor.

    Are you looking for a specific type of Brain Tumor?

    Common conditions include: Astrocytoma, Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT), Chondroma, Chondrosarcoma

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      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Elite in Brain Tumor

      Massachusetts General Hospital

      55 Fruit St, 
      Boston, MA 
       (0.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Elizabeth Gerstner is a Neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Gerstner is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Glioma, Brain Tumor, and Awake Craniotomy.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Elite in Brain Tumor

      Massachusetts General Hospital

      55 Fruit St, 
      Boston, MA 
       (0.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Jorg Dietrich is a Neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Dietrich is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Glioma, Brain Tumor, and Tissue Biopsy.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery
      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery

      Massachusetts General Hospital

      55 Fruit St, 
      Boston, MA 
       (0.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Brian Nahed is a Neurosurgery provider in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Nahed is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Astrocytoma, Glioma, Glioblastoma, Awake Craniotomy, and Tissue Biopsy.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery
      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery

      Brigham And Women's Hospital, Neurosciences Center

      60 Fenwood Rd # 1, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Wenya Bi is a Neurosurgery provider in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Bi is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Meningioma, Brain Tumor, Astrocytoma, Awake Craniotomy, and Nerve Decompression.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery
      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery

      Brigham And Women's Hospital, Neurosciences Center

      60 Fenwood Rd Fl 1, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Alexandra Golby is a Neurosurgery provider in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Golby is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Brain Tumor, Hydrocephalus, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Awake Craniotomy, and Vitrectomy.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology
      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology
      75 Francis St, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Brian Alexander is a Radiation Oncologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Alexander is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Brain Tumor, Glioma, and Tissue Biopsy.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Elite in Brain Tumor

      Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

      450 Brookline Ave, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Tracy Batchelor is a Neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Batchelor is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma, Glioma, Gliomatosis Cerebri, and Tissue Biopsy.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Elite in Brain Tumor

      Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

      450 Brookline Ave, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Lakshmi Nayak is a Neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Nayak is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Astrocytoma, Glioma, Glioblastoma, and Brain Tumor.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Elite in Brain Tumor

      Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

      450 Brookline Ave, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Rameen Beroukhim is a Neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Beroukhim is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Glioma, Brain Tumor, Gliomatosis Cerebri, and Astrocytoma.

      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Hematology Oncology | Hematology | Oncology
      Elite in Brain Tumor
      Hematology Oncology | Hematology | Oncology

      Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Center For Neuro-Oncology

      450 Brookline Avenue, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      David Reardon is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Hematologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Reardon is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Glioma, Brain Tumor, and Tissue Biopsy.

      Nayan Lamba
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology

      Brigham And Women's Hospital, Department Of Radiation Oncology

      75 Francis Street, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Dr. Lamba is an Instructor in Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School with a clinical focus on central nervous system malignancies. She received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lamba completed her residency in radiation oncology at the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. Her research focuses on characterizing the epidemiology, symptom burden, disparities, and outcomes among patients with brain metastases, as well as identifying genomic markers of radiation response among patients with brain metastases and leptomeningeal disease. Dr. Lamba is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Brain Tumor, Metastatic Brain Tumor, Meningioma, Carotid Artery Surgery, and Prostatectomy.

      Rifaquat M. Rahman
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology

      Brigham And Women's Hospital, Department Of Radiation Oncology

      75 Francis Street, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Rifaquat Rahman is a Radiation Oncologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Rahman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Posterior Fossa Tumor, Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET), and Vitrectomy.

      Jose P. Leone
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor

      Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Breast Oncology Program

      450 Brookline Avenue, Susan F. Smith Center For Women's Cancers, 
      Boston, MA 
       (2.9 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Dr. Leone received his MD from Universidad del Salvador, Argentina in 2005. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2011, and went on to complete fellowships in Hematology and Medical Oncology at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2014. He was faculty at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 2014 through 2017. In 2017, he joined the staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber, where he is a medical oncologist and clinical investigator in the Breast Oncology Center. His research focuses on brain metastases, male breast cancer and novel therapies in the treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Leone is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Breast Cancer in Men, Breast Cancer, Brain Tumor, and Inflammatory Breast Cancer.

      Timothy R. Smith
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor

      Brigham And Women's Hospital, Neurosciences Center

      60 Fenwood Road, 1st Floor Hale Building For Transformative Medicine, 
      Boston, MA 
       (3.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English
      Offers Telehealth

      Dr. Timothy Smith is a neurosurgeon-scientist who seeks to understand, predict, and improve clinical outcomes for neurosurgical patients by combining the use of epidemiological data, advanced statistical analysis, machine learning, and emerging biological/information system technologies. Trained as an epidemiologist and statistician in addition to his neurosurgical residency, he focuses primarily on the utilization of data science to optimize neurosurgical patient care.Dr. Smith’s clinical interests focus on tumors of the brain and spine that arise innately from the central nervous system and the meningeal covering of the brain, or metastasize from other primary cancer sites. Dr. Smith is the Director of the Computational Neuroscience Outcomes Center (CNOC) in the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This center strives to collect and maintain prospective data on all neurosurgical patients cared for by the department, synthesize high volume data streams, as well as implement process and outcome improvement through comparison with national data.Dr. Smith is committed to the education of future neurosurgeons and plays an active role in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s neurosurgical residency program. He is a committee vice-chair for Medical-Legal Issues with the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies (CSNS) as well as the President of the Boston Society for Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, the oldest academic neuroscience society in the United States. He serves on numerous committees both in the US and worldwide which focus on the ethics of neurosurgery, oncology, skull base surgery, and neurologic outcomes assessment. He is an active member of committees at Brigham and Women’s Hospital addressing information technology, physician wellness, and process improvement.Dr. Smith maintains active membership in both national and international neurosurgical societies, including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Skull Base Society, the Society for Neuro-Oncology, and the Pituitary Society. He presents his research regularly at national and international meetings. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters. Dr. Smith is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Pituitary Tumor, Meningioma, Brain Tumor, Awake Craniotomy, and Laminectomy.

      Rafael A. Vega
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Neurosurgery

      Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Neurosurgery

      110 Francis Street, Suite 3B, 
      Boston, MA 
       (3.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, Spanish
      Offers Telehealth

      Rafael Vega is a Neurosurgery provider in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Vega is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. His top areas of expertise are Brain Tumor, Subdural Hematoma, Posterior Fossa Tumor, Awake Craniotomy, and Craniectomy.

      Martina Stippler
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor

      Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

      110 Francis Street, Lowry Suite 3B, 
      Boston, MA 
       (3.0 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English, German
      Offers Telehealth

      Martina Stippler is a Neurosurgery provider in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Stippler is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Subdural Hematoma, Chronic Subdural Hematoma, Pituitary Tumor, Balloon Sinuplasty, and Laminectomy.

      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology
      Distinguished in Brain Tumor
      Radiation Oncology

      The General Hospital Corporation

      55 Fruit St, 
      Boston, MA 
       (0.8 miles away)
      Languages Spoken:
      English

      Torunn Yock is a Radiation Oncologist in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Yock is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Brain Tumor. Her top areas of expertise are Medulloblastoma, Posterior Fossa Tumor, Ependymoma, and Brain Tumor.

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      Last Updated: 02/22/2026

      What is the definition of Brain Tumor?

      A primary brain tumor is a group (mass) of abnormal cells that start in the brain.

      When should I see a Brain Tumor doctor near Boston, MA?

      There are various reasons why you may want to see a specialist, such as: 

      • Your primary care provider recommends it. 
      • Your condition requires expert knowledge and specialized care. 
      • Your symptoms persist or worsen despite treatment. 
      • You need specialized testing or procedures. 
      • You want a second opinion.  

      What should I consider when choosing a Brain Tumor doctor near Boston, MA?

      It’s important to see a provider with expertise in your specific condition. Each provider profile in MediFind’s doctor database includes information on which conditions they treat, years of experience, research contributions, languages spoken, insurance plans accepted, and more.  

      How does MediFind rank Brain Tumor doctors near Boston, MA?

      MediFind’s rankings are based on a variety of data sources, such as the number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials and industry conferences, as well as the number of patients that provider sees for a given condition. Note that MediFind’s provider database is not based on user reviews, and providers do not pay to be included in the database. 

      What types of insurance are accepted by Brain Tumor doctors near Boston, MA?

      Most profiles in MediFind’s doctor database include a list of insurance plans accepted by that provider. However, it’s a good idea to contact the provider’s office to make sure they still accept your insurance, then doublecheck by contacting your insurance plan to confirm they’re in network. 

      How can I book an appointment online with a Brain Tumor doctor near Boston, MA?

      MediFind offers direct scheduling for certain providers using the “Request Appointment” button on that provider’s profile. If the schedule option is not available for a provider, tap the red “Show Phone Number” button on their profile to get their contact information. If you prefer to find providers who offer online scheduling, select “Schedules online” under the “Availability” category of the filter feature on the left side of the Brain Tumor doctor search results page. 

      Why is it important to get a second opinion from a different Brain Tumor doctor?

      Second opinions are an opportunity to confirm a diagnosis and its root cause, learn about alternative treatment options, or simply gain peace of mind. Many people, especially those with serious diagnoses, get second opinions so they can understand all their options and make informed decisions, so don’t hesitate to get one if you have any doubts or need more information or clarification regarding your care. Note that some insurance plans require second opinions, while others don’t cover second opinions, so be sure to confirm with your insurance provider first.   

      How can I prepare for my appointment with a Brain Tumor doctor near Boston, MA?

      Prepare for your appointment by gathering the following items: 

      • Copies of medical records (dating back at least one year) 
      • Your medical history, including illnesses, medical conditions, surgeries, and other doctors you see 
      • Family history of disease 
      • List of current prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal remedies or supplements including names and doses 
      • Allergies to medications, food, latex, insects, etc.  
      • List of questions and concerns 
      • Your insurance card 

      You might also contact the provider’s office to see if they offer transportation or childcare services or if you’re allowed to bring a loved one for support or to take notes during your visit. 

      What questions should I ask my Brain Tumor doctor?

      Here are some sample questions: 

      • Can you explain in simple terms what this condition is and how it’s treated? 
      • What symptoms or side effects should I watch for? 
      • What tests will be involved, and when can I expect results? 
      • Are there other specialists I need to see? 
      • What’s the best way to reach you if I have follow-up questions? 

      How can I learn about the latest clinical trials and research advances my Brain Tumor doctor may know about?

      MediFind’s Clinical Trials tool asks you a series of questions to help you narrow down your search by health condition, age, gender, location, how far you’re willing to travel, and more. Each question you answer filters down the number of trials until you find the ones that are most relevant to you. 

      MediFind’s Latest Advances tool features summaries of recent articles published in medical journals. We use cutting-edge technology to scour medical publication databases for the latest research advancements on any given condition, then we simplify this information in a way that’s useful and easy to understand. 

      Can I filter my search to show male or female Brain Tumor doctors near Boston, MA?

      Look for the filter feature on the left side of the Brain Tumor doctor search results page. Select “Female” or “Male” under the “Gender” category to search for female or male providers exclusively. If the “Any” option is selected, it will pull results for both male and female providers. 

      Can I filter my search to find a Brain Tumor doctor that offers video calls?

      Look for the filter feature on the left-side of the Brain Tumor doctor search results page. Select “Offers telehealth visits” under the Availability category to search for providers who offer virtual appointments (video calls). 

      Reviewed on: 11/11/24  

      By: MediFind Medical Staff 

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