Andrew Parsa, MD, who was named neurological surgery chief at the Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago died suddenly, accoding to a Chicago Tribune report.
He came to Northwestern from the University of California, San Francisco where he was vice chairman of the department of neurological surgery and spearheaded a new approach for brain cancer treatment. He removed patient tumors and created individual vaccines from malignant masses.
Dr. Parsa's methodology is in the third phase of clinical trials at Northwestern, where he was also leading a trial to test surgery technology for more safe rare brain tumor removal. He also performed around 300 surgeries per year and authored more than 300 publications. Dr. Parsa was on the board of several medical organizations and completed his medical degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.
The cause of death has not been released. Dr. Parsa was 48 years old.
Dr. Parsa's wife is an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Northwestern and he has three children.