Jina Youn, MD

Barrow Oncology is a full-service, complete cancer care team that allows patients with benign and malignant tumors to have all of their oncological services provided and coordinated in the same center. We offer a multidisciplinary team of neurosurgeons, head and neck surgeons, medical oncologists, neuro-oncologists, speech-language pathologists, ENT specialists, and radiation oncologists offering the latest treatment for head and neck cancer, neurological cancers, and metastatic cancers.

Shawn Stevens, MD, is an otolaryngologist at Barrow Neurological Institute. He is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology. Dr. Stevens’ expertise includes hearing and vestibular disorders, skull base surgery, and Gamma Knife radiosurgery for the treatment of skull base and temporal bone tumors. He is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Stevens earned his medical degree from Ohio State University. He completed his residency in otolaryngology at the Medical University of South Carolina and a fellowship in otology, neuro-otology, and skull base surgery at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Dr. Stevens’ research interests include hearing preservation surgery for vestibular schwannoma, tumors and disorders of the skull base, surgical approaches to the lateral skull base, cochlear implantation, Gamma Knife radiosurgery, spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea, and skull base phrenology.

Robert Yoo, DO, is a medical oncologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Barrow Neurological Institute. He is board certified in medical oncology and hematology by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Yoo’s expertise includes caring for patients with aggressive primary brain tumors, such as glioblastoma, and tumors that have metastasized to the brain or spine. With his hematology background, Dr. Yoo also treats blood cancer types involving the brain and spine, such as lymphoma or multiple myeloma. He is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, and the Society for Neuro-Oncology. Dr. Yoo earned his medical degree from the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in East Lansing. He completed his internal medicine residency at Beaumont Hospital in Farmington Hills, the primary teaching hospital of Michigan State University. He also completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, an affiliate of the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. Dr. Yoo has a longstanding interest in genomics and tumors with unique molecular biology. He believes that a better understanding of tumor biology can help overcome treatment resistance to provide precision-based treatments for brain tumors. Dr. Yoo emphasizes comprehensive, state-of-the-art patient care with treatment options such as immunotherapy, targeted therapy agents, and cancer vaccines.