Elizabeth Maher, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Neurology and the Theodore H. Strauss Professor in Neuro-Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
After earning her medical degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Maher completed an internship in medicine as well as junior and senior residencies in internal medicine at The Toronto Hospital in Toronto, Canada. She then performed a medical oncology fellowship and subspecialty neuro-oncology training at Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.
Dr. Maher served for more than six years as an instructor in internal medicine at the Harvard Medical School Center for Neuro-Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She joined UT Southwestern in 2006 as an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Neurology at Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and has served as an Associate Professor since 2009.
In 2006 Dr. Maher became the Medical Director of the UT Southwestern Neuro-Oncology Program, serving in this role for seven years. Since 2013 she has served as the program’s Director of Translational Research and the Director of the Crystal Charity Ball Center for Pediatric Brain and Neurological Diseases at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Maher is a principal investigator or co-author of several ongoing research studies on glioma and related topics funded by entities including the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. She has also participated in research studies published in journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature, Cell, Cell Metabolism, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cancer Research, and Cell Reports.
Dr. Maher has authored chapters on neoplasms of the central nervous system for medical textbooks including the Diagnostic Atlas of Oncology. She is an ad hoc reviewer for journals including Science, Scientific Reports, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Neuro-oncology, Cancer Research, and Neuro-oncology.
Dr. Maher has presented on brain tumor topics at national and international conferences, meetings, symposiums, and grand rounds for organizations including the American Association of Cancer Research, American Society of Clinical Oncology, New York Academy of Sciences, Pezcoller Foundation, International Society of Cancer Metabolism, and institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Yale University, Weill Cornell Medical Center, Vanderbilt, and MD Anderson Cancer Center.