Executive Board
Babak Kateb
Chairman/CEO SBMT & President of Brain Mapping Foundation
Research Scientist, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute
Aaron G. Filler
13th President of SBMT (2015-2016)
Medical Director Institute for Nerve Medicine & Neurography Institute
Kuldip Sidhu
11th President, SBMT (2013 - 2014)
Associate Professor, Stem Cell Research, University of New South Walese
Wes Ashford
14th President of SBMT (2016-2017)
Director of the WRIISC, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Ken Green
Senior VP of Brain Mapping Foundation
Vicky Yamamoto
Member of the Executive Board of the Brain Mapping Foundation
Warren W. Boling
15th President of SBMT (2017-2018)
Professor of Neurosurgery and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University Medical Center
Jeffrey C. Wang
16th President of SBMT (2018-2019)
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurosurgery,Co-Director of the USC Spine Center
Board Members
Mike Y. Chen
Associate Professor of Department of Neurosurgery, City of Hope Cancer Center
Jessica Rose
Orthopedic Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine
K. Nevzat Tarhan
President, Üsküdar University
Dipen Sinha
Physicist - Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory Lab Home
Bahram Jalali
Professor and Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery & Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Michael J. Roy
9th President SBMT (2011 - 2012), Director of Internal Medicine, Arlington, Virginia, Uniform Services University Health Sciences
Laligam N. Sekhar
UW Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery; President of the World Federation of Skull Base Societies; President of the Washington State Association of Neurological Surgeons
Antonio Di Ieva
Neurosurgeon, A/Professor of Neuroanatomy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Theodore W. Berger
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, David Packard Chair of Engineering, Director, Center for Neural Engineering - USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Louis Yuge
Professor Division of Bio-Environmental Adaptation Sciences, Graduate School of Health Sciences; Main Director Space Regenerative Medicine Center - Hiroshima University
Reinhard Schulte
Professor, Basic Sciences, Division of Physiology, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University
Eric Kandel
Nobel Laureate, neuroscientist and a University Professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University.
Denise Kandel
Dr. Denise Kandel's major research interests are in the epidemiology, risk factors and consequences of drug use; the epidemiology of substance dependence; comorbidity between substance use and psychiatric disorders.
Howard Federoff
Dr. Howard Federoff named UCI vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of medicine
Venkat Sadanand
University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine
Ramin Pakbaz
Dr. Ramin “Sean” Pakbaz is a neurointerventional radiologist who specializes in brain and spine disorders that are often difficult to treat with conventional medical or surgical procedures.
Dawn S. Eliashiv
A Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the UCLA Seizure Disorders Center
Jeffrey C. Wang
Jeffrey C. Wang, MD is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, Co-Director of the USC Spine Center with an expertise in the surgical treatment of all neck and back disorders.
Shrikanth (Shri) S. Narayanan
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Rudolph E. Tanzi
Dr. Tanzi has published roughly 500 scientific papers including the top three most cited papers in the field of Alzheimer's disease research.
Maheen Mausoof Adamson
Senior Scientific Research Director, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC); Clinical Associate Professor Neurosurgery/Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford School of Medicine - VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Seung-Schik Yoo
Seung-Schik is an associate professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and is a director of Neuromodulation and Tissue Engineering Laboratory (NTEL), Brigham and Women's Hospital