Girish Dhall, MD

In 1994, Dr. Girish Dhall graduated from the Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India, where he received his medical school education. He moved to the United States in 1997 to enter a Pediatric Residency Training program at Saint Vincent’s Hospital and New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York. From there, under the mentorship of Dr. Jonathan Finlay, he undertook Fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology-oncology at the New York University Medical Center (2000–2003) sparking his interest in pediatric brain tumors. Upon completing his Fellowship, Dr. Dhall moved to Los Angeles, California to further develop his expertise in Neuro-oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). Shortly after, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California and promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and served as Vice-Chair of the CHLA Institutional Review Board (IRB).

Dr. Dhall is a Professor of Pediatrics and currently resides in Birmingham, AL where he serves as Benjamin Russell Endowed Chair in Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, and Division Director of the Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Blood Marrow Transplantation Program at the University of Birmingham in Alabama (UAB) and Children's of Alabama. He is Deputy Director of Neurofibromatosis Clinical Trials Consortium and he is titled Senior Scientist at UAB’s O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also Head of the Pediatric Neuro-oncology program. Dr. Dhall currently co-chairs the “Head Start” 4, an international, multi-institutional clinical trial and is also the Chair of the COG’s Young Investigator’s Committee and member of COG CNS Steering Committee.