Dr. Parney is Associate Professor and Vice-Chair (Research) of the Department of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic Rochester where he is also a member of the Department of Immunology and the Neuro-Oncology Program of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.  He received his MD and PhD degrees and completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Alberta and completed further subspecialty and post-doctoral training in the Dept. of Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco.  Dr. Parney’s clinical efforts are focused on malignant brain tumor surgery.  His laboratory focuses on malignant glioma immunology and immunotherapy.  He is a principal investigator on multiple local and national glioma immunotherapy clinical trials.