Vanessa V. Marin Collazo, M.D.

Mayo Clinic's Brain Tumor Program at Mayo Clinic Florida offers expert brain tumor care and works with you to choose the care plan that best suits your needs and goals. Offering 48 hour appointments, from diagnostics to evaluation and treatment, Mayo Clinic’s multidisciplinary team includes experts who are advancing the research and treatment of brain tumors. Mayo Clinic's teams use innovative and advanced imaging technologies and tools, including high-powered (7-tesla) magnetic resonance imaging, PET scanning and molecular diagnostics, a type of genetic testing. If you have a serious, complex or rare brain tumor condition, such as glioma, glioblastoma, meningioma, pituitary tumors, or brain metastases, you'll find exactly the care you need here. Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, ranks among the Best Hospitals for Neurology and Neurosurgery in the U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” rankings and is one of the few centers in the country to offer awake brain surgery.

Victoria E. Clark, M.D., Ph.D., is a Senior Associate Consultant in the Department of Neurologic Surgery and the State of Florida Endowed Chair of Cancer Research at the Mayo Clinic's Florida campus. Dr. Clark graduated with a BA with high honors in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard. She earned her MD and PhD degrees from the Yale University School of Medicine, where she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine cum laude for unusual academic merit and Doctor of Philosophy in Neuroscience with Distinction for her work characterizing the genomic architecture of meningiomas. She completed neurosurgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and her clinical fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. Dr. Clark's clinical practice is focused on the surgical treatment of primary and metastatic brain tumors, with an emphasis on incorporating technology such as motor and speech mapping to achieve maximal safe resection. In addition to her clinical activities, she directs a research lab to study the molecular mechanisms of meningioma formation, with an eye towards novel therapeutics.