Elizabeth Brooks Claus

Biography

Elizabeth B. Claus, MD, PhD is Professor and Director of Medical Research in the Yale University School of Public Health as well as Attending Neurosurgeon and Director of Stereotactic Radiosurgery within the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is a member of the board of advisors for the Acoustic Neuroma Association (ANA) as well as the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS). Dr. Claus' work is focused in cancer and genetic epidemiology with an emphasis on the development of risk models for breast and brain tumors. She is the overall PI of the Meningioma Consortium, the Meningioma Genome-Wide Association Study, and the Yale Acoustic Neuroma Study as well as a co-investigator of the GLIOGENE (Genes for Glioma) and International Glioma Case/Control (GICC) projects. In addition to her research activities, Dr. Claus is a Board-certified neurosurgeon who completed her residency in neurosurgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital and her fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her clinical focus is on the treatment of meningioma, glioma, acoustic neuroma and brain metastases. In partnership with national patient brain tumor organizations including the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA), the National Brain Tumor Society (NBTS) and the ANA, Dr. Claus is working to develop cost- and time-efficient web- and smartphone- based recruitment strategies to be used in the study of brain tumors. She has developed such work in collaboration with the ANA (https://www.anausa.org/component/content/article/22-menu-articles/about-ana/307-yale-university-acoustic-neuroma-study-) and recently received pilot funding from the ABTA/NBTS to commence development of a web-based registry for patients with low grade glioma in an effort to advance research efforts for this group of patients (http://www.abta.org/brain-tumor-research/low-grade...). Education & Training MD in Yale University School of Medicine (1994) PhD in Yale University (1988 Fellow in Brigham and Women's Hospital Resident in Yale-New Haven Hospital Resident in Yale- New Haven Hospital.

Research Interest

Cancer and genetic epidemiology with an emphasis on the development of risk models for breast and brain tumors.