John Henson, MD

Dr. Henson practices neuro-oncology and manages patients with neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, Von Hippel-Lindau and related genetic disorders. He has a broad clinical interest in hereditary cancer risk analysis and risk reduction and started the Hereditary Cancer Clinic at Wellstar Georgia Cancer Center. Dr. Henson trained in neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and in neuro-oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He was director of the Stephen E. and Catherine Pappas Center for Neuro-Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and served as chief of oncology services for Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. Dr. Henson studied genomic cancer risk assessment with Dr. Jeffrey Weitzel at City of Hope. He was previously medical director of the Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment and the Swedish Neurofibromatosis clinic at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.