SBMT Board Members

Executive Board

Babak Kateb

Babak Kateb

Chairman/CEO SBMT & President of Brain Mapping Foundation
Research Scientist, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, Director of Brain Technology and Innovation Park, Director of National Center for Nano-Bio-Electronics (NCNBE) President and CEO of Smart Microscopy Inc., LA, CA, USA

Farzad Massoudi

Farzad Massoudi

4th President of SBMT

Medical Director of Neuroscience and Spine Institute, Mission Hospital, Orange County, CA, USA

Michael J. Roy

Michael J. Roy

7th & 10th President of SBMT

(Ret.) Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army Director and Professor, Division of Military Internal Medicine University of the Health Sciences, MD, USA

Mike Y. Chen

Mike Y. Chen

9th President of SBMT
Vice President of World Brain Mapping Foundation, Vice President of Government and Strategic Alliance WBMF and SBMT, CA, USA

Kuldip Sidhu

Kuldip Sidhu

11th President of SBMT

Professor of Stem Cell Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Aaron G. Filler

Aaron G. Filler

13th President of SBMT (2015-2016)
Medical Director, Institute for Nerve Medicine & Neurography, Professor of Neurosurgery Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, EVP & Chair of Legal-Counsel & Ethics Committee of SBMT, CA USA

Wes Ashford

Wes Ashford

14th President of SBMT (2016-2017)
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Department of Psychiatry and behavioral Science, Stanford University, Director of War Related-Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto HealthCare System, CA, USA

Robert Hariri

Robert Hariri

18th President of SBMT (2020-2021)
Chairman and CEO of Celularity, Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medical School, NY, USA

Jason Cormier

Jason Cormier

19th President of SBMT (2021-2022)

Dr. Cormier is a native of South Louisiana, where he graduated from St Thomas More High School in Lafayette, La

Vicky Yamamoto

Vicky Yamamoto

20th President of SBMT (2022-2023)
Cancer Scientist, USC-Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, USC-Keck School of Medicine, CA, USA Member of the Executive Board of the World Brain Mapping Foundation

Deborah Zelinsky

Deborah Zelinsky

Optometrist/Director of Mind Eye Institute,Chicago IL.USA

Board Members

K. Nevzat Tarhan

K. Nevzat Tarhan

Professor of Psychiatry, President/Rector, Üskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey

Namath Hussain

Namath Hussain

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, CA, USA

Theodore W. Berger

Theodore W. Berger

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, David Packard Chair of Engineering, Director, CA, USA Center for Neural Engineering – USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Reinhard Schulte

Reinhard Schulte

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, CA, USA

Eric Kandel (Nobel Laureate)

Eric Kandel

Member of the USA, German and France National Academies of Science, Kavil Professor and Director of Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences and Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, NY, USA

Denise Kandel

Denise Kandel

Professor and Head of the Department of Epidemiology of Substance Abuse at New York State Psychiatric Institute, Professor of Socio-Medical Science and Psychiatry, Columbia University, NY, USA

Christina Sadowsky

Christina Sadowsky

Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Maryland, USA

Amin Kassam

Amin Kassam

Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Aurora Medical Group, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Abilash Haridas

Abilash Haridas

Pediatric Neurosurgeon, St. Joseph Children’s Hospital Tampa, FL, USA

Julie Pilitsis

Julie Pilitsis

Dean of Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, VP for Medical Affairs, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA

George Perry

George Perry

Semmes Foundation Distinguished Chair of Neurobiology University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA

Robert Thatcher

Robert Thatcher

Founder and CEO of Applied Neuroscience, Inc.,Director of Applied Neuroscience Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Keerthy Sunder

Keerthy Sunder

CEO, Karma Doctors & Karma TMS, Inc Founder, The Sunder Foundation, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California Riverside, CA, USA

Jennifer Fogarty

Jennifer Fogarty

Chief Scientific Officer Translational Research Institute for Space Health

Roger W. Werne

Roger W. Werne

Associate Director for Engineering and Technology Transfer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA

Dawn S. Eliashiv

Dawn S. Eliashiv

Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the UCLA Seizure Disorders Center, Los Angeles CA, USA

Christopher Wheeler

Christopher Wheeler

President at StemVax, Chief Scientific Officer at T-Neuro Pharma, Inc. Professor and research scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center