Kalil G. Abdullah, MD

Kalil G. Abdullah, MD, surgically treats brain tumors and specializes in minimally invasive surgical options for benign and malignant tumors of the central nervous system.
 
Dr. Abdullah is one of the few neurosurgeons in the country whose research is funded by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health. He has been an investigator for numerous glioma studies and is actively involved in bringing promising brain tumor drugs from the laboratory to early-stage clinical trials. He has published more than 100 research articles including scientific advances in journals such as Neuro-Oncology, Cancer Cell, Nature Medicine, and Nature.

Dr. Abdullah earned his medical degree at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine where he was a National Institutes of Health Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar. He completed a residency in neurological surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and then received advanced training in neurosurgical oncology through a fellowship at the Wellington Hospital in New Zealand. He completed an additional postdoctoral research fellowship in stem cell biology at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.