Faculty

2012 Key Note Speakers




Jung
Hans W. Jung
Surgeon General; Commander, Canadian
Forces Health Services Group
Nathan
VADM Matthew L. Nathan
Surgeon General, US Navy; Chief,
US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery




rosen-fac Kirsty Duncan
Member of Canadian Parliament; Etobicoke, Canada




 

2012 Speakers

Maheen Mausoof Adamson, Clinical Assistant Professor (affiliated)
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford CA, Acting Director of Research, Director, PhD Fellowship Program
War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC), Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System
Palo Alto, CA

Rafat Ansari, Bioscience and Technology Branch, Space Processes and Experiments Division
NASA - Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

J. Wesson Ashford, Director, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Clinical Professor,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (affiliated), Stanford University

Isabelle Aubert, Senior Scientist, Alzheimer's research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

Jane Aubin, Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President, Research, Canadian Institutes for Health Research

Steffany A.L. Bennett, University Research Chair in Neurolipidomics, Director, CIHR Training Program in Neurodegenerative Lipidomics, Neural Regeneration Laboratory, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology

Markus Besemann, Canadian Forces Health Service, Mental Health Division, Canada

Sandra E. Black, Brill Chair in Neurology, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON

Frank Bradke, Senior Group Leader, Axon Growth and Regeneration, Deutsches Zentrum fur Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE)

Benjamin Burt, Director of Orbital & Oculoplastic Surgery, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine Texas, Tech University, Texas, USA

Mikulas Chavko, Chief Scientist, US Naval Medical Research Center, Canada

Wayman Wendell Cheatham, Special Assistant for Medical Research to The Navy Surgeon General & Director, Navy Medicine Research and Development, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, US Navy, Washington, DC, USA

Michael Y. Chen, 8th President of SBMT, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Section Head, Malignant Brain Tumor Program, City of Hope National Cancer Center, Duarte, CA

Robert E W Chen, Senior Scientist, Division of Brain Imaging & Behaviour Systems - Neuroscience
Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI), Toronto Canada

Christopher H. Contag, Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
Member, Child Health Research Institute, Canada

Jeff Daskalakis, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Stimulation Research and Treatment Program at CAMH,
Toronto, Canada

Christopher Deppmann, Department of Biology, University of Virginia

Antonio A.F. De Salles, Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology
Head of Stereotactic Surgery Section, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Adriana Di Polo, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and the School of Optometry, University of Montreal, Canada  

Sam Doesberg, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

Jonathan Downar, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Huanyu Dou, assistant professor Ophthalmology at the TTUHSC, USA

Qiyin Fang, Associate Professor of Engineering Physics
Canada Research Chair in Biophotonics
McMaster University, Canada

Michael G. Fehlings, Professor of Neurosurgery, Krembil Chair in Neural Repair and Regeneration
Director Neuroscience Program, Co-Chairman Spinal Program, University of Toronto
Medical Director, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network

Konstantin Feinberg, Postdoc, Freda Miller Lab, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada

Vanessa Foran, Director, Policy, Partnerships and Government Relations, Neurological Health Charities Canada

Raj K. Gupta, Deputy Director, DoD Blast Injury Research Program Coordinating Office, Pentagon, USA

Barry D. Greenberg, Director, Neuroscience Drug Discovery and Development, University Health Network, Director of Strategy,
Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Warren Grundfest, Professor of Bioengineering & Electrical Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science, Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Colleen A. Hanlon, Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical university of South Carolina, USA

John Heiss, Head, Clinical Unit, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Stuart W. Hoffman, Scientific Program Manager for Brain Injury, Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Office of Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC

Alena Horska, Assistant Professor, Division of Neuroradiology, Russel H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University

Inez Jabalpurwala, President, Brain Canada

J. Patrick Johnson, Spine Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Babak Kateb, Founding Chairman of the Board of SBMT , Scientific Director of SBMT and Brain Mapping Foundation, President of Brain Mapping Foundation, Research Scientists, Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Research Scientist II,
Neurosurgery, Maxine-Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA

Lisa Koski, Director of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation laboratory at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada

Michael Lim, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology and Institute of NanoBiotechnology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD


COL Geoffrey Ling, Program Manager, DSO, DARPA, Arlington, VA Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, Chair of Department of Neurology, USUHS, Baltimore, MD

Deborah Little, Associate Professor of Neurology, Ophthalmology, Anatomy, and Psychology
Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois Medical Center and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Takako Makita, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Program, The Saban Research Institute
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

Earl Miller, Director of Strategic Partnerships, MaRS Discovery District, Toronto, Canada

David Moore, Associate Professor of vascular
Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine
Visiting Scientists, MIT, MA, USA

Jerry Myers, Bioscience and Technology Branch
Space Processes and Experiments Division
NASA - Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH

Ziad Nahas, Professor and Chairperson. Department of Psychiatry American University of Beirut, Lebenon

Parimal Nathwani, Vice President, Commercialization, Life Sciences, MaRS Innovation, Toronto, Canada

Robert Nickells, Professor of Physiology, UW Comprehensive Cancer Center, Institute on Aging. Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology Vice Chair of Research, Canada

Shouleh Nikzad, Lead, Advanced Detector Array & Nanoscience Group, Principal Member of Staff, Lead, Strategic Initiative,
Gigapixel FPAs NASA/JPL, California Institute of Technology, Visiting Research Associate Prof. of Neurosurgery, USC of Medicine, USA

Ayako Ochi, Division of Neurology, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Canada

Ivan Osorio, Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA

Vivek Patel, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Neuro-ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus, Canada

Carolynn Patten, Research Scientist-VA Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, University of Florida, USA

Jay J. Pillai, Director of Functional MRI, Neuroradiology Division, The Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Attending Neuroradiologist, The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Sujit S. Prabhu, Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

William E. Reichman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Baycrest

Shawn Rhind, Defence R&D Canada Toronto, Defence Scientist, Canada

Marten Risling, Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Timothy P.L. Roberts, Oberkircher Family Chair in Pediatric Radiology Vice-Chair Radiology
Research Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Professor of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Cheryl Rogers, Trade Commissioner, Life Sciences & Medical Devices, Consulate of Canada

Michael J. Roy, Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, Director, Division of Military Internal Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Hugo Sandoval, Center of Excellence for Neurosciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Thomas Sawyer, Defence R&D Canada Suffield, Defence Scientist, Canada

Steven Schiff, Center for Neural Engineering, Penn State University, USA

Roman Schinder, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Director Oculoplastics Kings County Hospital
Department of Ophthalmology, USA

Reinhard W. Schulte, Associate Professor, Translational Research
Dept. of Radiation Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA

Sherif S. Sherif, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Chancellor's Circle, University of Manitoba, Canada

Mark S. Shiroishi, Assistant Professor, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Carter Snead, Division Head of Neurology at The Hospital for Sick Children, Senior Scientist at Neurosciences & Mental Health Research Institute, Professor of Departments of Medicine, Paediatrics and Pharmacology at University of Toronto Bloorview Children's Hospital Foundation, Chair of Paediatric Neuroscience, Toronto, Canada

Bojana Stefanovic, Assistant Professor of Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Prashanthi Vemuri, Assistant Professor of Radiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA

Yushan Wang, Defence R&D Canada Suffield, Defence Scientist, Canada

Richard Wennberg, Kembrel Neuroscience Center, Division of Neurology Toronto Western Hospital,
University of Toronto, Canada

John T.W. Yeow, Canada Research Chair in Micro/Nanodevices Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON, Canada

John S. Yu, Professor and Vice chair, Director, Brain Tumor Center of Excellence Cedars- Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA<

Jun Zhang, Research Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology with joint appointments in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Center of Excellence for Neurosciences at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, USA

 


2011 Key Note Speakers




Rocco Armonda
Rocco Armonda
Neurosurgery Consortium at National Naval MEDCEN and Walter Reed Army MEDCEN
KGabriel_70 Kaigham (Ken) J. Gabriel
Deputy Director of Defense Advanced research Project Agency (DARPA), Arlington, VA





Robinson_70 Vice Admiral Adam M. Robinson, Jr.
Vice Admiral, 36th Surgeon General of Navyl and Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
Washington DC
Bios Lugo 70 Ramon (Ray) Lugo III
Director of NASA Glenn research center 


 

2011 Speakers  
Eric Acosta
Computer Research Scientist
National Capital Area Medical Simulation Center, USUHS, Bethesda, MD
Maheen M. Adamson
Deputy Director, Database Core, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (affiliated), Stanford University
John Adler
Professor of Neurosurgery
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Aileen Anderson
Associate Professor
University of California Irvine
Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Center
MIND Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders
Director, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation SCI Core
Rafat Ansari
Bioscience and Technology Branch
Space Processes and Experiments Division
NASA - Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
J. Wesson Ashford
Director, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (affiliated), Stanford University
Krystof Bankiewicz
Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology,
Kinetics Foundation Chair in Translational Research, Department of Neurological Surgery,
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Mitchel S. Berger
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery
Kathleen M. Plant Distinguished Professor
Director, Brain Tumor Surgery Program
Director, Neurosurgical Research Centers, Brain Tumor Research Center
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Rupak Biswas
Division Chief (Acting)
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Valerie Cardenas-Nicolson
Associate Adjunct Professor of Radiology, UCSF
Staff Research Scientist, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, SFVAMC
Jose M. Carmena
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses at University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, CA
Edward F. Chang
Assistant Professor, Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses Faculty, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience Departments of Neurological Surgery and Physiology
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Steven D. Chang, MD
Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Robert C. and Jeannette Powell Professor in the Neurosciences,
Stanford University, Standford, CA
Linda Chao
Associate Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry, UCSF
Staff Research Scientist, Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, SFVAMC
Wayman Wendell Cheatham
Special Assistant for Medical Research to The Navy Surgeon General  & Director, Navy Medicine Research and Development
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
US Navy, Washington, DC, USA
Clark C. Chen
Director of Clinical Neuro-oncology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Director of core and advanced neurosurgical clerkship
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Michael Y. Chen
President Elect of IBMISPS
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Section Head, Malignant Brain Tumor Program
City of Hope National Cancer Center, Duarte, CA
Steven Conolly
Professor of Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Vice Chair of Instruction in Bioengineering, Director of the Berkeley Imaging Systems Laboratory,
University of California Berkeley College of Engineering, Berkeley, CA
Christopher H. Contag
Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Neonatology, Microbiology, Immunology and Radiology
Co-director, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Director, Stanford Center for Innovation in In Vivo Imaging
Director, Stanford Near Infrared Optics and Free Electron Laser Center
Past President, Society for Molecular Imaging
Brian J. Cummings
Associate Professor
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Anatomy & Neurobiology
Institute for Memory Impairments & Neurological Disorders
Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Center
Jeffrey R. Davis
Director, Space Life Sciences
NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA
Philip A. De Fina
Chief Clinical and Research Consultant Severe Disorders of Consciousness Program
Kessler Institute For Rehabilitation
Founder & Chairman, Board of Directors
Chief Executive Officer / Chief Scientific Officer
Chief Neuroscience Consultant
Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
International Brain Research Foundation, Edison, NJ
Karl Deisseroth
Assoc Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Stanford
Functional Brain Modeling Brain, Stanford, CA
Antonio A.F. De Salles
Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology
Head of Stereotactic Surgery Section
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Luc Dupont Jasmin
Los Angeles Neurosurgical Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Department of Anatomy, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Eric Elster
Director For Surgical Services
Naval Medical Research Center
Rockville, MD
Daniel L. Farkas
Chairman and CEO, Spectral Molecular Imaging, Inc., Beverly Hills CA
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California
Adjunct Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology
President, International Musculoskeletal Laser Society

Massimo S. Fiandaca
Associate Research Scientist
Bankiewicz Laboratory
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Ansgar Furst
Director of Neuroimaging Laboratory, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (affiliated) and Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
Karunesh Ganguly
Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF
Staff Physician and Clinical Researcher, Neurology and Rehabilitation Service, SFVAMC
Alessandra Gorgulho
Department of Neurosurgery
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Ken Green
Commander (DC) USN
Associate Director for Research Operations Integration Medicine Research & Development Center BUMED MOOMR5
Department of Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington DC
Warren Grundfest
Professor of Bioengineering & Electrical Engineering
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science, Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
John Heiss
Head, Clinical Unit
Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Jaimie M. Henderson
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, and, By Courtesy, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Robert and Ruth Halperin Faculty Scholar
Director, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Co-Director, Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory
Stanford University School of Medicine
Roland G. Henry
Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Neurology, and Bioengineering
University of California, San Francisco
Christopher Hess
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Max Hilz
Department of Neurology, New York University Medical Center, New York,
and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Stuart W. Hoffman
Scientific Program Manager for Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Research and Development Service
Office of Research and Development
Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC
Troy Lisa Holbrook
Project Director
Wounded Warrior Recovery Project (WWRP)
Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA
Mingxiong Huang
Associate Adjunct Professor
Associate Director of MEG
Department of Radiology
University of California, San Diego, CA
J. Patrick Johnson
Spine Center
Department of Neurosurgery
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Jack Judy
Program Manager, DARPA, Arlington, VA
Babak Kateb,
Founding Chairman of the Board of IBMISPS and Brain Mapping Foundation, Scientific Director of IBMISPS and Brain Mapping Foundation
Research Scientists, Department of Neurosurgery,
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Geoffrey A. Kerchner
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford Center for Memory Disorders, Stanford University School of Medicine
Jessica.E.Koehne
Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Scott E. Krahl
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Deputy Associate Chief of Staff, Research & Development
Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Sandeep Kunwar
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery Surgical Director, California Center for Pituitary Disorders Co-Director,
Taylor McAdam Bell Neuroscience Institute, San Francisco, CA
Paul S. Larson
Associate Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery
Chief, Neurosurgery Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Principal Investigator, Movement Disorders Research
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Jean-Jacques Lemaire
Service de Neurochirurgie A,   
CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Hopital Gabriel Montpied, France
Zachary T. Levine
Director Functional Neurosurgery: Washington Hospital Center,
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery, Georgetown University
Washtington Brain & Spine Institute, Washington DC
Michael Lim
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology and Institute of NanoBiotechnology
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
COL Geoffrey Ling
Program Manager, DSO, DARPA, Arlington, VA
Deborah Little
Associate Professor of Neurology, Ophthalmology, Anatomy, and Psychology
Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation, University of Illinois Medical Center and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Russell R. Lonser
Chair, Surgical Neurology Branch
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Sean Mackey
Chief, Pain Management Division
Associate Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Shira Maguen
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
Staff Psychologist, Mental Health Service, SFVAMC
Saralyn Mark
Senior Medical Advisor
Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer NASA and
Adj Associate Professor of Medicine and OB/GYN Yale and Georgetown Unversity Schools of Medicine, Washington DC
Michael W. McDermott
Neurosurgical Director, UCSF Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery Program
Vice Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Pratik Mukherjee
Associate Professor of Radiology and Bioengineerin
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Jerry Myers
Bioscience and Technology Branch
Space Processes and Experiments Division
NASA - Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH
Ara V. Nefian
Senior Scientist
Intelligent Systems Division
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Thomas Neylan
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Michael S. Okun
President of IBMISPS 2010-2011
Adelaide Lackner Associate Professor of Neurology
Co-Director, University of Florida Movement Disorders Center
National Medical Director, National Parkinson Foundation, Gainesville, FL
Alessandro Olivi
Professor of Neurosurgery
Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Bayview Med. Ctr.,
Director of Neurosurgical Oncology,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Martin Pera
Professor of Cell & Neurobiology
Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC, San Francisco, CA
Elaine Peskind
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Jay J. Pillai
Director of Functional MRI, Neuroradiology Division
Russell H. Morgan Dept. of Radiology & Radiological Science,
Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Sujit S. Prabhu
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
W. Keith Prusaczyk
PM, Medical Development Director, Congressional Programs Office
Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Oncology
Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Director, Brain Tumor Surgery Program, Johns Hopkins Bayview
Director, Pituitary Surgery Program, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Urs Ribary
Professor and BC LEEF Leadership Chair,
Cognitive Neuroscience in Childhood Health and Development, Director, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, Department Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Department Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Fellow UBC Institute of Mental Health and Investigator Brain Research Centre,
Simon Fraser University (SFU),
University of British Columbia (UBC),
Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital, Down Syndrome Research Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
Allyson Rosen
Instructor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (affiliated), Stanford University
Kate Hammond Rosenbluth
Assistant Researcher, Department of Neurosurgery,
University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Philip N. Sabes
Associate Professor
UCSF Department of Physiology and W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience,
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Norbert Schuff
Professor of Radiology, UCSF
Senior Scientist, Radiology Service, Member - Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, SFVAMC
Reinhard W. Schulte
Associate Professor, Translational Research
Dept. of Radiation Medicine,
Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA
Tom Seyfried
Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Krishna V. Shenoy
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Bioengineering
James H. Clark Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Mark Shiroishi
Assistant Professor of Neuroradiology
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Philip A. Starr
Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery, Dolores Cakebread Endowed Chair
Co-Director, Functional Neurosurgery Program
Surgical Director, Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Care Center (PADRECC) at San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Medical Center
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Gary K. Steinberg
Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst Professor of Neurosurgery and the Neurosciences
Director, Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences
Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
Jeffrey P. Sutton
Director, National Space Biomedical Research Institute
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Jian Tajbakhsh
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Program Leader Translational Cytomics
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Bruce J. Tromberg
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
Professor, School of Medicine
Director, Laser Microbeam and Medical Program, BLI and Medical Clinic (NIH Center)
Director, Beckman Laser Institute
Past editor-in-chief (1999-2010), Journal of Biomedical Optics
Jack W Tsao
CDR MC USN
Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Programs
US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, USUHS
Amir Vokshoor
Neurological Spine Surgeon, Founder of INI,
Minimally Invasive Spinal Instrumentation, Marina del Rey, CA
Duan Xu
Assistant Professor of radiology and biomedical Engineering,
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Paul Weiss
Director of UCLA-California Nano-system Institute
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Anthony T. Yeung
Desert Institute for Spine Care, Phoenix, AZ
John S. Yu

Professor and Vicechair
Director, Brain Tumor Center of Excellence
Cedars- Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

 

 

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