Keith Black

Keith Black chairs the Department of Neurosurgery and is Director of the Dunitz Neurological Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He served on the UCLA faculty for 10 years as Professor of Neurosurgery. Dr. Black has pioneered research on designing ways to open the blood-brain barrier and deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly into tumors without surgery. His work has been profiled on PBS in The New Explorers, and in TIME’s special edition of Heroes In Medicine. He serves on editorial boards for several journals and on numerous commitees for NIH and professional academies. Since 1987, he has performed more than 5,000 operations for resection of brain tumors. At age 17, he published his first scientific paper (winning a Westinghouse Science Award) and completed all his undergraduate and medical degrees in just 6 years.