The following treatment team members specialize in spine tumors at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. To make an appointment, please call The James Line at (614) 293-5066 or toll-free 1-800-293-5066. The James Line is a free, 24-hour, confidential telephone service staffed by oncology nurses weekdays from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. to provide callers with cancer information and physician referrals throughout central Ohio. For further information about a physician listed below, click on the name.
Neurosurgical Oncology
Ehud Mendel, MD, FACS
Justin Skestos Chair
Professor of Neurosurgery,Oncology and Orthopaedics
Director, Spine Program, Department of Neurological Surgery
Neuro-Oncology
Herbert Newton, MD, FAAN
Professor of Neurology and Oncology
Director, Division of Neuro-Oncology
Esther Dardinger Chair of Neuro-Oncology
Co-Director, Dardinger Neuro-Oncology Center
Robert Cavaliere, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Medical Oncology
Thomas Olencki, DO
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Steven Clinton, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Gregory Otterson, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Paul Monk III, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Miguel Villalona, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Ewa Mrozek, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Tanios Belkaii-Saab, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Craig Hofmeister, MD (multiple myeloma)
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Don Benson, MD (multiple myeloma)
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Radiation Oncology
John Grecula, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Medicine
Neuroradiology
Eric Bourekas, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Associate Professor of Neurology
Director, Neuroradiology Fellowship Program
Donald Chakeres, MD
Professor, Section Chief, Neuroradiology
Director, MR Research
Greg Christoforidis, MD
Associate Professor
Section Chief, Interventional Neuroradiology
H.W. Slone, MD
Associate Professor
Clinical Director, MRI
Director, MRI Fellowship
Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Ehud Mendel, MD, FACS
Director, Spine Program, Department of Neurological Surgery
Simon Lo, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Medicine
Neuroanesthesiology
Sergio Bergese, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Neuroanesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery