Daniel J. Brat, MD

Dr. Daniel J. Brat, the Magerstadt Professor and Chair of Pathology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Pathologist-in-Chief of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, earned his MD and PhD from the Mayo Medical and Graduate Schools followed by a residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and 18 years on the faculty of Emory University and the Winship Cancer Institute. A diagnostic neuropathologist and brain tumor researcher, Dr. Brat directs a laboratory investigating the mechanisms of glioma progression and has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications over 25 years in the field. His work with The Cancer Genome Atlas helped define the molecular classes of diffuse gliomas now used in WHO diagnoses, and he served as a lead editor of the 5th and 6^th editions of the WHO Classification of Brain Tumors. Dr. Brat is a past President of the American Association of Neuropathologists and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.