“Cancer spread to his brain, and he died.”
People with primary brain tumors or metastasis in their brain from cancer in other places of their body used to have to have neurosurgeons go through healthy brain tissue to access their diseased tissue. Now tumors can be targeted for removal without damaging healthy tissue. Spokane has assembled one of the top teams in the country for this work.
Brief Speaker Bio
After majoring in natural sciences, Bo taught elementary school science in the Spokane Schools and moved on to a medical/dental division of Procter and Gamble where he rose in management. After 16 years in sales and marketing with Rubbermaid and the Newell companies, he founded a software company that got its footing after six years of development. When 911 hit, the bottom fell out of a good portion of the software development industry. Since 2002, Bo has managed a non-invasive brain surgery center called the Gamma Knife of Spokane. In 2005, he and three physician partners executed a buyout of the program and have developed, what the manufacturers called, “the best example of a community – based Gamma Knife of Center in North America..