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Principal Investigator

Kristopher T. Kahle, M.D., Ph.D.

Pediatric Neurosurgeon | Neurosurgeon | Geneticist

- Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Director, Harvard Center for Hydrocephalus and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (HAND)
- Member, Yale-NIH Centers for Mendelian Genomics

Dr. Kahle is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Harvard Center for Hydrocephalus and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (HAND). He is a board-certified pediatric neurosurgeon, with experience in a broad range of pediatric neurosurgical disorders including brain and spinal cord tumors and cysts, all types of hydrocephalus, Chiari malformation, spina bifida, vascular malformations, and others. He also treats these conditions in transitional age patients and adults, providing continuity of care across the age spectrum. He is highly skilled in both open and endoscopic/minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques.

 

Dr. Kahle is a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and a member of numerous medical organizations, including the AANS, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ASPN), and the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (ISPN).

 

Dr. Kahle graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago in 1999 with degrees in Biology and Philosophy. He received his M.D. from Yale School of Medicine in 2007, where he also received his Ph.D. working in the laboratory of human geneticist Richard Lifton. He completed his neurosurgery residency training at MGH in 2014, as well as a post-doctoral research fellowship at Harvard University with co-mentors Stephen Elledge and David Clapham. He completed a clinical pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he was Shellito staff associate and Instructor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kahle returned to New Haven to join the Yale School of Medicine faculty, where he was Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, and Cellular & Molecular Physiology, and Director of Neonatal and Congenital Anomaly Neurosurgery from 2016-2021. In 2021, Dr. Kahle came to Massachusetts General Hospital to serve as Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery. He is also Nicholas T. Zervas Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Member of Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Investigator for the Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children's Hospital.

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Garrett Allington, PhD
  MD Candidate
Columbia University

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Julie Choi
PhD Candidate
Washington University School of Medicine

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Evan Dennis
MD Candidate
Harvard Medical School

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Tyrone Despenza Jr.

MD/PhD Candidate

Yale School of Medicine

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Baojian Fan, MD, PhD
Research Scientist
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Carla Fortes
Clinical Research Program/
Project Manager

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Po-Ying Fu
Bioinformatics Research Analyst
Washington University in St. Louis

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Kristin Hanifin, MSN, APRN, CPNP
Nurse Practitioner
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Researcher
Washington University in St. Louis

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Emre Kiziltug
MD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine

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Adam Kundishora, MD
Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Arnaud Marlier, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

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Neel Mehta
MD Candidate
Harvard Medical School

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Quentin Moyer
MD Candidate
Harvard Medical School

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Kedous Yared Mekbib, MD, MHS
Neurosurgery Resident
Mayo Clinic

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Susan P. Mullany, NP
Nurse Practitioner

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Andres Moreno De Luca, MD
Associate Neuroradiologist
Assistant Professor
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William Muñoz Miranda, MD, PhD
Neurosurgery Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Carol Nelson-Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Yale University

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Jack Ocken
Undergraduate Research Associate

Yale College

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Paulina Piwowarczyk
Research Associate
Boston Children's Hospital

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Benjamin Reeves
MD/PhD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine

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JP Shohfi
Administrator
Clinical Research Coordinator
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Stephanie Robert, MD, PhD

Resident Physician, Department of Neurosurgery

Postdoctoral Fellow, Kahle Lab

Yale New Haven Hospital

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Hannah Smith, BS
Research/ Grant Consultant

Massachusetts General Hospital

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Myron Rolle, MD, MSc
Neurosurgery Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Yung-Chun (David) Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Washington University in St. Louis

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Max Wrubel
Research Associate
McDonnell Genome Institute

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Shujuan Zhao
PhD Candidate
Washington University in St. Louis

Lab Alumni

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August Allocco
MD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine

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Weilai Dong
PhD Candidate
 Yale University

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Sierra Conine

Postgraduate Associate in Neurosurgery

Yale University

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Ashley Dunbar, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
Washington University School of Medicine

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Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Yale University

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Daniel Duran, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
University of Mississippi Medical Center

 

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Charuta Furey, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
Barrow Neurological Institute

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Jonathan Gaillard, MD, MS
Child Neurology Resident
University of Michigan

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Ava Hunt, MD
Pediatric Resident
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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Jason Karimy, MD
Rural Family Medicine Resident
Appalachian Regional Healthcare

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Shreyas Panchagnula, MD, MHS
 Neurosurgery Resident
University of Maryland

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Duy Phan, MD, PhD
Neurosurgery Resident
University of Virginia

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Amar Sheth

MD Candidate

Yale School of Medicine

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Amrita Singh, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
Columbia University

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Will Sullivan

Yale College

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Xue Zeng
Computational Biologist
Senior Scientist, Amgen

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Junhui Zhang, MD
Senior Research Scientist
Yale University

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