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
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
Robert Hariri
Robert Hariri, The Chairman, Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and former Chief Executive Officer of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics.
Board Members
Babak Kateb
Research Scientist, Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute
Saleem I. Abdulrauf
Professor & Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Saint Louis University
Mike Y. Chen
Associate Professor of Department of Neurosurgery, City of Hope Cancer Center
K. Nevzat Tarhan
Professor of Psychiatry / President, Üsküdar University
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
Theodore W. Berger
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, David Packard Chair of Engineering, Director, Center for Neural Engineering - USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Reinhard Schulte
Professor, Basic Sciences, Division of Biomedical Engineering Sciences, 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
Dawn S. Eliashiv
A Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the UCLA Seizure Disorders Center
Robert Thatcher
Robert Thatcher, President & CEO of Applied Neuroscience, Inc.
Deborah Zelinsky
Deborah Zelinsky, O.D. is an optometrist noted for her work in neuro-optometric rehabilitation. She is the founder of The Mind-Eye Institute, based in Northbrook, IL.
Jason Cormier
Dr. Cormier is a native of South Louisiana, where he graduated from St Thomas More High School in Lafayette, La
Justin Allen Dye
Dr. Dye graduated from Pacific Union College in 2003 and was awarded the Brian Nichelin award for excellence in Biology. A recipient of the US Navy’s Health Professionals Scholarship he earned his medical degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
Roger W. Werne
Dr. Werne has a long and distinguished engineering career ranging from, the position of Associate Director for Engineering and Technology Transfer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to the cofounding of ITI Medical Technologies a medical device company.