Jennifer Leigh Clarke MD, MPH

Dr. Clarke specializes in novel approaches to the treatment of brain tumors in adult patients. As a member of the Brain Tumor Center, she is a co-investigator on single-institution clinical trials designed and run at UCSF, as well as multi-institution trials through the National Cancer Institute’s Adult Brain Tumor Consortium. In addition to the design of clinical trials, her research interests include novel imaging methods of characterizing tumors and their response to treatment. In particular, she is interested in the delineation of treatment effect from recurrent tumor and in the imaging of tumors in patients receiving anti-angiogenic agents. Other research interests include the evaluation of molecular methods of characterizing tumors and the assessment/improvement of quality of life in brain tumor patients. She also teaches and precepts neurology residents, introducing them to the subspecialty field of neuro-oncology.