Department of Neurosurgery

Dr. Clark C. Chen currently serves as the Director of the Brain Tumor Program within the Department of Neurosurgery at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University. He specializes in the surgical treatment of brain cancers, with NIH funded laboratory efforts directed toward the development of glioma therapies. Dr. Chen has published over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is consistently recognized as a “Top Doctor” by national and international organizations.

Dr. Chen received his MD and PhD from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He completed his neurosurgery training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2008, with an in-folded clinical fellowship in radiosurgery followed by a second fellowship in stereotactic neurosurgery. Between 2008 and 2011, he served as the Director of Surgical Neuro-Oncology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. In 2011, Dr. Chen was recruited to the University of California San Diego Neurosurgery, where he rose to the rank of tenured ladder-rank Professor and served as the Vice-Chair of Academic Affairs. Dr. Chen joined the University of Minnesota in 2017, where he held the French Lyle Chair in Neurosurgery and serves as the Head of the Neurosurgery program. He joined Brown University as the Director of the Brain Tumor Program in 2024.