Suzanne Sutton
Brain Teasers (to keep brains healthy!)
About Dr. Brem
My mom's neurosurgeon is Dr. Henry Brem, chief of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
If you want to feel good about the hands my mom
will be in, look no further than this page. It
includes a brief biography of my mom’s doctor, a link to his page on the Hopkins
website, and a link to
an inspiring article about him, his approach, and medical advances he has impacted. But before you read his quite extraordinary
professional qualifications, I want to say a bit more about his equally extraordinary
personal qualifications. 
I got a chance to meet Dr. Brem a few months ago, when he spent over an hour with the two of us, answering whatever questions we had, explaining in remarkably accessible, concise language all the details of the tumor, the surgery and the reasons for it, and then just chatting – as you do with a friend. My mom and I left his office nearly in tears, stunned at the luck of finding such a doctor, and such a person. When you find a doctor of such skill and experience, you don't also expect to find such amazing personal qualities. We are very lucky.
This is a man who cares, who genuinely seems to
see the person sitting before him, and whose mission is to find a way to help her heal. It was so clear to me that this matters to him, on
a deep level – and that he assesses every case as if it were his daughter, wife, or
mother. We couldn’t have asked for
better.
It is odd to feel peace as you contemplate brain surgery, but with Dr. Brem we did.
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His Hopkins website is http://www.hopkinsneuro.org/brain_tumor/doc.cfm?i=22
You can also find out much, much more about Dr. Brem and his work with simple searches on google and other search engines. Good reading!
"The Johns Hopkins
team uses skill and compassion to provide the most expert care available, and continually
pushes the boundaries to do even better."
Read this:
In putting this page together, we found many amazing articles about Dr. Brem; here is a
link to one we really think you will want to read, click here
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Dr. Henry Brem
Director of Neurosurgery,
Johns Hopkins University
Harvey Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery
Professor
of Oncology and Ophthalmology
Dr. Brem graduated from
Harvard Medical School with honors and trained in neurosurgery at Columbia University. He
did a fellowship in neurosurgery and ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins and then joined the
faculty in 1984. He rapidly rose to the rank of full professor and helped build one of the
leading Brain Tumor Centers in the United States. He also directs the Hunterian Research
Laboratory, which has introduced new therapies for brain tumors. In 2000, he was appointed
the Harvey Cushing Professor, Neurosurgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of
Neurosurgery.
Dr. Brem focuses his
clinical practice on the surgical treatment of pituitary tumors, meningiomas, gliomas,
acoustic neuromas, skull base tumors and other solid brain tumors. He has developed new
clinical treatments for brain tumors, including the delivery of chemotherapy directly to
the brain through the Gliadel wafer, anti-angiogenesis therapies, computer navigation
systems used during surgery and brain tumor vaccines.