Sylvia Kurz, MD, PhD

Sylvia Kurz, MD, PhD, has been named an Associate Professor of Neurology (Neuro-Oncology) and cares for patients as part of the Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center. Dr. Kurz is an internationally acclaimed neuro-oncologist and received both her MD and PhD at Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity in Munich, Germany. She then completed a residency at University Hospitals Case Medical Center followed by a fellowship in Neuro-Oncology and Immuno-Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology and Interim Director of the Neuro-Oncology Program at Perlmutter Cancer Center prior to returning to Germany where she was a Neuro-Oncologist at the Institute for Neurology and Interdisciplinary Neuro-Oncology at the University Hospital Tübingen before joining Yale. Dr. Kurz cares for patients with brain tumors as well as those who have immunotherapy-related side e­ffects or pain resulting from cancer treatment–related nerve damage. She conducts translational and clinical research on brain tumors and is a co-investigator on various clinical trials, including several immunotherapy trials. In addition, her research focuses on developing new and more e­ffective treatment options for people with progressive and therapy-resistant intracranial meningiomas.