John W. Henson, MD, FAAN

John W. Henson, MD, FAAN, is an associate neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and is an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He practices in the Pappas Center for Neuro-oncology and in the MGH division of Neuroradiology, and directs the Brain Tumor Imaging Research Program. He has extensive website editing experience.

Henson graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, CA, and completed his residency in neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center under Gerald M. Fenichel. After a fellowship in neuro-oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with William Shapiro, Jerome Posner, and Henry Furneaux, Henson was appointed to the staff of the MGH in 1991. As a principal investigator in the Molecular Neuro-oncology Laboratory, he studied transcriptional regulation of JC virus as well as clinical-genetic correlations in primary brain and spinal cord tumors. He was the executive director of the MGH Brain Tumor Center from 1998 until 2001, when he began a two-year fellowship in diagnostic neuroradiology. Since 2003 he has combined clinical neuro-oncology and diagnostic neuroradiology practice at the MGH, with a research focus on brain tumor imaging. He has authored more than 75 publications in the fields of neuro-oncology and brain tumor imaging.

Henson became a Fellow of the AAN in 1998, was chair of the AAN's Section on Neuro-oncology from 2002 to 2004, and has been a member of the Science Committee since 2002. He is a member of the examination writing committee in neuro-oncology for the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.