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.
Garrett Allington, PhD
MD Candidate
Columbia University
Tyrone Despenza Jr.
MD/PhD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine
Po-Ying Fu
Bioinformatics Research Analyst
Washington University in St. Louis
Emre Kiziltug
MD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine
Neel Mehta
MD Candidate
Harvard Medical School
Quentin Moyer
MD Candidate
Harvard Medical School
Carol Nelson-Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Yale University
Benjamin Reeves
MD/PhD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine
JP Shohfi
Administrator
Clinical Research Coordinator
Massachusetts General Hospital
Julie Choi
PhD Candidate
Washington University School of Medicine
Baojian Fan, MD, PhD
Research Scientist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Kristin Hanifin, MSN, APRN, CPNP
Nurse Practitioner
Massachusetts General Hospital
Adam Kundishora, MD
Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kedous Mekbib
MD/MHS Candidate
Yale School of Medicine
Susan P. Mullany, NP
Nurse Practitioner
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jack Ocken
Undergraduate Research Associate
Yale College
Stephanie Robert, MD, PhD
Resident Physician, Department of Neurosurgery
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kahle Lab
Yale New Haven Hospital
Hannah Smith, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
Massachusetts General Hospital
Evan Dennis
MD Candidate
Harvard Medical School
Carla Fortes
Senior Research Associate
Massachusetts General Hospital
Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Researcher
Washington University in St. Louis
Arnaud Marlier, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Andres Moreno De Luca, MD
Associate Neuroradiologist
Assistant Professor
Geisinger
William Muñoz Miranda, MD, PhD
Neurosurgery Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital
Paulina Piwowarczyk
Research Associate
Boston Children's Hospital
Myron Rolle, MD, MSc
Neurosurgery Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital
Yung-Chun (David) Wang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Washington University in St. Louis
Max Wrubel
Research Associate
McDonnell Genome Institute
Shujuan Zhao
PhD Candidate
Washington University in St. Louis
Lab Alumni
August Allocco
MD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine
Weilai Dong
PhD Candidate
Yale University
Sierra Conine
Postgraduate Associate in Neurosurgery
Yale University
Ashley Dunbar, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
Washington University School of Medicine
Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Yale University
Daniel Duran, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Charuta Furey, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
Barrow Neurological Institute
Jonathan Gaillard, MD, MS
Child Neurology Resident
University of Michigan
Ava Hunt, MD
Pediatric Resident
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jason Karimy, MD
Rural Family Medicine Resident
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Shreyas Panchagnula, MD, MHS
Neurosurgery Resident
University of Maryland
Duy Phan, MD, PhD
Neurosurgery Resident
University of Virginia
Amar Sheth
MD Candidate
Yale School of Medicine
Xue Zeng
Computational Biologist
Senior Scientist, Amgen
Amrita Singh, MD
Neurosurgery Resident
Columbia University
Will Sullivan
Yale College
Junhui Zhang, MD
Senior Research Scientist
Yale University