Prakash Chinnaiyan, MD

Prakash Chinnaiyan, MD, earned his medical doctorate at Wayne State University and completed residency and post' doctoral training at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Following residency, he joined the Department of Radiation Oncology at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, specializing in the treatment of patients with brain and spine malignancies. Dr. Chinnaiyan joined Beaumont Health in 2015. As a physician scientist, he is Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Oakland University Beaumont School of Medicine and serves as Chief of the CNS Service. Dr. Chinnaiyan currently leads an NIH' funded laboratory that is committed to the study of glioblastoma with the ultimate goal of bringing laboratory' based discoveries into the clinic. He is also very active in developing and leading clinical trials designed to test novel anti' cancer strategies for brain tumor patients. He is recognized nationally for the treatment of brain tumors, currently serving on the RTOG/NRG Brain Tumor Core Committee and the NCI' Molecular Radiation Therapeutics Branch Glioma/Radiotherapy Working Group.