Assistant Professor
Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Peter Chiarelli is an assistant professor and attending pediatric neurosurgeon at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) / University of Southern California (USC). He Specializes clinically in pediatric surgical neuro-oncology, spinal dysraphism, and hydrocephalus. Academically, Dr. Chiarelli has a background in physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and MRI physics. He runs a laboratory at the Saban Research Institute focused on DIPG brain tumors, involving novel approaches based on the physical sciences for treatment of these tumors. He also performs collaborative brain imaging research at CHLA, focused on the development of novel clinically-applicable MR approaches.