John
Floyd, MD

Dr. John R. Floyd II is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at UT Health San Antonio's Long School of Medicine, holding the Carl Raba Family Chair in Neuro-Oncology alongside a dual appointment in Otolaryngology. Board-certified, his surgical focus covers neuro-oncology, complex skull base surgery, and advanced spine surgery. He started his medical path by gaining early entry to the University of Alabama School of Medicine at 18, after graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also studied as a Rotary International Scholar at the University of Adelaide, earning a Graduate Diploma of Public Health. He completed his internship and neurosurgical residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a neurosurgical oncology and skull base surgery fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Publications:
Gruslova, A., Cavazos, D. A., Miller, J. R., Breitbart, E., Cohen, Y. C., Bangio, L., Yakov, N., Soundararajan, A., Floyd, J. R. & Brenner, A. J. VB-111: a novel anti-vascular therapeutic for glioblastoma multiforme. J. Neurooncol. 124(3):365-72 (2015). PMID: 26108658; PMCID: PMC4584173

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