PAUL L. MOOTS, M.D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Moots graduated with high honors from Duke University with a B.S. in 1976, and earned his medical degree from Ohio State University School of Medicine in 1980. He served an internship in Internal Medicine, a residency in Neurology and a fellowship in Neuropathology from 1980 – 1986 at University of Virginia Medical Center. Moots also was a fellow in Neuro-Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and a clinical fellow in Neurology at The New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center. In 1989 Moots became clinical assistant neurologist in the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, then assistant professor of Neurology and assistant attending neurologist for the hospital. He joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1991 as assistant professor of Neurology and became an assistant professor of Medicine in 1993. Currently, Moots is associate professor of Neurology and associate professor of Medicine for Vanderbilt. Board certified in Neurology and Psychiatry, Moots is a journal reviewer for Annals of Neurology, Cancer, Cancer Research and Neurology. He is also a member of the Scientific Review Committee and the Cancer Patient Care Center Governance Committee for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, as well as the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group – Brain Tumor Working Group. Dr. Moots specializes in the treatment of primary central nervous system neoplasms, metastatic and nonmetastatic neurological complications of systemic cancer and management of cancer related pain syndromes. His research focuses on chemotherapy trials for primary central nervous system neoplasms.

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Dr. Moots’ research focuses on chemotherapy and symptomatic treatments for the management of primary neoplasms of the nervous system. This includes chemotherapy trials developed at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, as well as trials sponsored by the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, a national organization for cancer trials.

Dr. Moots has a long-standing interest in medulloblastoma and is the chairperson of an ECOG trial for adult patients with medulloblastoma. He also is involved in trials for other forms of adult glioma, central nervous system lymphoma, and certain forms of metastatic cancer of the nervous system, particularly carcinomatous meningitis.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Paul L. Moots, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
VA Staff Neurologist
Neuro-oncology
1161 21st Avenue South
A-0118 Medical Center North
Nashville, Tennessee 37232
Phone: 615-936-0216
Fax: 615-936-0223
Research: Brain Tumors, Neuropathic Pain