Our Team

 


=Images= | gamma-jmcgee.jpg James L. McGee, MD - Co-Director
Dr. McGee is a board-certified radiation oncologist who has been director of Oncology Services for OSF Healthcare System for twelve years. Dr. McGee is also the medical director of Radiation Oncology at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. A practitioner of radiosurgery for nine years, Dr. McGee is co-director of the Gamma Knife facility. He is currently the chair of the Illinois State Board of Health. After completing his residency at Northwestern University Medical Center and a National Institute of Health training program in oncology at the University of Chicago, he won a Yamigwa-Yoshida technology transfer grant for studies at the University of Paris in Curietherapy.


=Images= | gamma-gdevanna.jpg W. Gregg Devanna, MS
Mr. Devanna has been practicing medical physics for OSF Healthcare System for the past six years. He helped establish the radiation oncology program at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois. He has also been actively involved in three-dimensional radiotherapy, brachytherapy and linear accelerator radiosurgery programs at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. Mr. Devanna is board-certified from the American Board of Radiology. He received his master of science in medical physics from the University of Cincinnati and his bachelor of science in physics from Purdue University.


=Images= | gamma-pelwood2.jpg Patrick W. Elwood, MD
Dr. Elwood is a professor and head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and has been a part of the radiosurgery team since 1992. He is board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Elwood takes particular interest in tumors and arteriovenous malformations of the brain. He trained in medicine and neurosurgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago.


=Images= | gamma-kfraser2.jpg Kenneth W. Fraser, MD
Dr. Fraser is a clinical professor of radiology, neurology and neurosuergery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and is the director of Interventional Neuroradiology at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. He is a senior member of the American Society of Neuroradiology with a certificate of added qualification in neuroradiology. He completed a fellowship in diagnostic neuroradiology and interventional neuroradiology at the University of California, San Francisco, and was a member of the Gamma Knife team at the University of Miami.


=Images= | gamma-fgeoffroy.jpg Francois J. Geoffroy, MD
Dr. Geoffroy is a board-certified medical oncologist who joined Oncology Hematology Associates as well as the medical staff of OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in 1994. Upon receiving his medical degree from Tuft's University School of Medicine and completing his internship and residency at St. Vincent Hospital, he completed his fellowship at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.


=Images= | gamma-bgriffin.jpg Brian R. Griffin, MD
Dr. Griffin is a board-certified radiation oncologist with extensive experience in stereotactic radiosurgery. He obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha. He completed residency training in radiation oncology at the University of Washington Medical Center at Seattle. Dr. Griffin served on the faculty of the University of Washington as joint associate professor of Radiation Oncology and Neurological Surgery. He specializes in neuro-oncology and radiosurgery.



 

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Jeffrey Klopfenstein, MD

Dr. Klopfenstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria. Dr. Klopfenstein completed his neurosurgical residency at the world-renowned Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. While there, he also completed an enfolded fellowship in complex spine under the supervision of the internationally recognized spine surgeon Dr. Volkar Sontagg.




 

=Images= | gamma-jlinn.jpg Julian J. Lin, MD
Dr. Lin is a neurosurgeon certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and The American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. He obtained his doctor of medicine degree with honors from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and a pediatric neurological surgery fellowship at the University of Tennessee in Memphis. He specializes in pediatric brain tumors, hydrocephalus, myelodysplasia and craniofacial abnormalities.