UCLA faculty experts advisory: Baseball great Gary Carter dies from brain cancer
By UCLA Newsroom
February 16, 2012
Gary Carter, the Hall of Fame catcher who played for 19 years and helped lead the New York Mets to a dramatic World Series championship in 1986 died today, just months after having been diagnosed with gliobalstoma, a rapidly growing cancer. UCLA has an expert.
Dr. Neil Martin is professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Media contact:
Elaine Schmidt | 310-794-2272 | eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu
