Biography

Daniel Bowers, M.D., is the medical director of pediatric neuro-oncology at Children’s Health℠. He is also a professor of pediatrics and neurological surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. 

Dr. Bowers earned his medical degree at UT Southwestern. He then completed his residency in general pediatrics at UT Southwestern and performed his fellowship in pediatric hematology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Bowers is a full member of the Children’s Oncology Group and serves on the central nervous system tumors committee, where his role is to develop new treatments for low-grade gliomas in children. He soon will be leading a national clinical trial for children with recurrent low-grade gliomas.

Dr. Bowers cares for children with brain tumors along with other members of the pediatric brain tumor multidisciplinary team, including pediatric neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, pediatric neurologists, neuro-radiologists and neuro-pathologists.

He strongly believes in the care his team provides. “We offer the most advanced treatment that can be found anywhere in the world for a child with a brain tumor,” says Dr. Bowers. “Our outstanding group of doctors is unmatched. You can get it all right here.”

In addition to his clinical care of children with brain tumors, Dr. Bowers leads the After the Cancer Experience program at Children’s Health, a childhood cancer survivorship program that monitors survivors of childhood cancer for long-term effects they may have from their cancer treatment or the cancer itself.

"As more children survive their cancer diagnosis, we know that about two-thirds of them have some long-term complication and about one-third will have what is considered a severe or life-threatening complication," Dr. Bowers says. “When we monitor these children as they grow, we can intervene if something starts to change or go wrong and help them through it.” 

Dr. Bowers is well known nationally for his understanding of the long-term side effects seen among childhood brain tumor survivors. He has been recognized by D Magazine as a Best Doctor in the category of Best Pediatric Specialist: Oncology/Hematology and as a favorite oncology professional by CureSearch for Children’s Cancer.

Dr. Bowers serves on the advisory committee on childhood cancers for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and as a member of the board of directors of the Clayton Dabney Foundation. He also is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Society for Neuro-Oncology, the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the Society for Pediatric Research.

Biography