Nano-Neuro-Photonics Subcommittee
Fartash Vasefi
Dr. Vasefi has deep experience developing systems using optical imaging and sophisticated software to measure and analyse health problems, especially those related to skin imaging
Babak Kateb
Babak Kateb, MD is a neuroscientist with more than 15 years of research experience.
Stroke Diagnosis and Therapy/Endovascular Subcommittee
Yashar Kalani
Yashar Kalani, MD, PhD joined the faculty of the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Neurology and Neuroscience at UVA in 2017.
Sean Pakbaz
Dr. Sean Pakbaz will join the Division to lead the effort in Endovascular Neurosurgery.
AD Mechanisms I: New Perspectives on Aβ and Tau Subcommittee
Konrad Talbot
The research of Konrad Talbot, PhD, studies the molecular basis of cognitive deficits in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and schizophrenia.
Margaret Fahnestock
Neurotrophic factors are proteins essential for nervous system development and function.
Neuroengineering Subcomittee
Seung Schik Yoo
Director/ Neuromodulation and Tissue Engineering Laboratory (NTEL)
Cancer Therapeutics Subcommittee Meeting
Reinhard Schulte
Dr. Reinhard Schulte, MD was trained as a physicist and radiation oncologist with board certifications in radiology and radiation oncology in Germany as well as in the United States.
Vicky Yamamoto
Vicky Yamamoto is a cancer scientist at Keck School of Medicine of USC in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery
Augmented and Virtual Reality Clinical Neuroscience Subcommittee
Skip Rizzo
USC Davis School of Gerontology and USC Keck School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Neuromodulation Subcomittee
Daniel DiLorenzo
Daniel John DiLorenzo is a medical device entrepreneur and physician-scientist.
Bridging "Valley of Death" with Federal and Non-Federal funding Subcomittee
Patricia Tomczyszyn
MBDA Participates in the First Ever “Inclusive Innovation House” at SXSW
Julio Cassels
Principal at CID Pericles @ Strategy Consultant - Marketing, B2B Relationships and Hispanic
Neurotechnology and Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry Subcomittee
Nevzat Tarhan
Nevzat Tarhan was born in Merzifon/Turkey in 1952. He finished Kuleli Military High School in 1969 and graduated from Cerrahpaşa Medical School Ístanbul University in 1975.
Artificial Intelligent, Informatics and Predictive modeling Subcomittee
Alex Bui
Dr. Alex Bui is a Professor in the Department of Radiological Sciences at UCLA.
Pezhman Mardanpour
Prof. Mardanpour received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
AD Mechanisms Subcomittee
Wes Ashford
Senior Research Scientist, Stanford / VA Aging Clinical Research and Alzheimer Centers Director, War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Carr Smith
AD risk posed by the APOE ε4 allele may be related to increased lifetime exposure to a neurotoxic process
Innovative Methods for Detection & Treatment of Brain Injury Subcomittee
Ken Green
Ken Green Kenneth P. Green, D.M.D., B.S.,is the Executive Director elect, and member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT).
Maheen Mausoof Adamson
Dr. Maheen Mausoof Adamson is the senior scientific research director for DVBIC at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
NeuroOncology & Brain Tumor Vaccine (LLU CME)
Yazmin Odia
Dr. Yazmin Odia is a neurologist in Miami, Florida and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Baptist Hospital of Miami and Doctors Hospital.
Epilepsy and intraoperative Brain Mapping (LLU CME) Subcomittee
Warren Boling
Dr. Boling earned his MD from Texas Tech University Health Science Center, School of Medicine, in 1991.
Jeffrey M. Chung
The research of Jeffrey M. Chung, MD, focuses on mechanism of epilepsy, predicting surgical decision
Neuro-Optometry and Retinal Neuromodulation Subcomittee
Deborah Zelinsky
Dr. Zelinsky earned her Doctor of Optometry (O.D.) and her Bachelor of Science in Visual Science from the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago.
Khashayar Dashtipour
Dr. Khashayar Dashtipour is a neurologist in Loma Linda, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Loma Linda University Medical Center and St. Bernardine Medical Center.
Brain Technology and Innovation Park Initiative from Training to Practice Subcomittee
Serge Braun
Serge Braun PharmD, PhD has 20 years of experience devoted to neuromuscular diseases in both academic and private laboratories, together with specific expertise in R&D in gene, cell and pharmacology therapies.
Current and future of the Diagnostics and Therapeutics of Substance Abuse Subcomittee
Daniel Sipple
Serge Braun PharmD, PhD has 20 years of experience devoted to neuromuscular diseases in both academic and private laboratories, together with specific expertise in R&D in gene, cell and pharmacology therapies.
Hon. Ken Cooley
Opiate Policy- Government and Insurance Perspectives
Shilpa Buch
Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, NE
Fractal Geometry & Computational Clinical Neurosciences Subcomittee
Antonio Di Ieva
Prof. Sen (Qian) has 30 years continuous experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research and application in bioengineering.
AD Mechanisms III: Brain-Immune Interactions Subcomittee
Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui
The lack of effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has necessitated more accurate and earlier diagnostic tools as well as disease-modifying therapies.
Jonathan Kipnis
Neuro-Immune interactions in neurodegenerative, mental, cognitive and neurodevelopmental disorders – understanding of basic mechanisms and development of novel therapies and vaccines.
Brain Bionic (USC CME) Subcomittee
Ted Berger
Biomedical engineer and neuroscientist specializing in neural prostheses, neural basis of learning and memory and “brain-like” acoustic recognition technology
National and Federal Labs's Translational Research and Development Subcomittee
Jennifer Stewart
Dr. Jennifer Stewart is a partner at Norwalk Eye Care. She is originally from the Hudson Valley, NY, and received her Bachelor of Science from Marist College.
John Dement
Dr. Dement serves on the advisory board of the NC Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center
National and Federal Labs's Translational Research and Development Subcomittee
John George
Los Alamos National Lab
NASA/Federal Labs Technology & Innovation Subcomittee
David Oberhettinger
Prior to JPL employment, he managed the Spacecraft Engineering Technology Department at Northrop Grumman
Roger Werne
Deputy Director of Industrial Partnerships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
US BRAIN Initiative Subcomittee
Nick Langhals
Neural engineering with emphases in neuroprostheses, neuromodulation, brain-computer interface (BCI) devices, prosthetic control, and neural interface technology development
International Space Station (ISS) Technology Transfer and Integration Subcomittee
Miki Sode
As a Commercial Innovation Program Manager at CASIS, Miki combines her multi-disciplinary background and passion for space to promote utilization of space environment to advance science, technology and R&D to higher potentials.
Michael Reberts
Michael Roberts, PhD, is Deputy Chief Scientist of the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) where he works to solicit, select, develop and enable flight projects for the International Space Station National Lab.
SBMT Fellows Oral Poster Subcomittee
Shahram Hadidchi
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Big data analytics in Behavioral Neuroscience Subcomittee
Shri Narayanan
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Neuroendoscopy Subcomittee
Kenneth De Los Reyes
University of South Florida-Tampa General Hospital
Neuro-Endovascular (LLU CME) Subcomittee
Promod Pillai
My philosophy of patient care is simple. I consider every patient as one of my family members in need of care.
Cerebrovascular Subcomittee
Martin Mortazavi
Aneurysm; Vascular Diseases; Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations; Spinal Cord Neoplasms; Spinal cord vascular lesions, Brain Neoplasms; Meningioma; Skull base tumors.
Brain Mapping and Therapeutics for Skull base and Neurovascular Disorders Subcomittee
Miguel Lopez-Gonzalez
Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery, Epilepsy Surgery, Skull Base, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery Assistant Professor Neurosurgery Loma Linda University
AD Mechanisms IV: Brain & Systemic Insulin Resistance & Glucose Metabolism Subcomittee
Auriel A. Willette
Departments of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Psychology - Iowa State University
Early AD Diagnosis II: CSF & Blood Biomarkers Subcomittee
Howard J. Federoff
Dr. Howard Federoff named UCI vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of medicine
AD Treatment I: Targeting Aβ and/or Tau Subcomittee
Steven L. Wagner
Steven Wagner earned his MS and PhD degrees in biochemistry from the University of Louisville School of Medicine and did post-doctoral training in microbiology and molecular genetics and UC Irvine College of Medicine.
AD Treatment II: Targeting β1 Adrenergic Receptors, Insulin Resistance, Inflammation, and/or Energy Metabolism Subcomittee
Gregory J. Brewer
Steven Wagner earned his MS and PhD degrees in biochemistry from the University of Louisville School of Medicine and did post-doctoral training in microbiology and molecular genetics and UC Irvine College of Medicine.
AD Treatment III: Using Regenerative Medicine, Low Dose Ionizing Radiation, Cyclic AMP/GMP Modulators, or Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Mathew Blurton-Jones
Stem Cells, Parkinson Disease, Alzheimer Disease, Neurogenesis, Differentiation, Learning and Memory, Neurodegeneration, Neurotrophins
Brain Mapping and Therapeutics in Pediatric Medicine
Jessica Rose
Stanford University | SU · Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Multimodality Brain Mapping
John Heymann
Assistant Professor of Neuroradiology
Radiation Oncology: New Combined Therapies for High Grade Gliomas
Minesh P Mehta
Radiation Oncology
European Brain Project
Simon Eickhoff
Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Biological Imaging
Andres Collazo
Director, Biological Imaging Facility; Lecturer in Biology and Biological Engineering
Addiction and Opioids
Parmis Khatibi
Dr. Parmis Khatibi is an anticoagulation and antithrombotic clinical specialist at University of California, Irvine Medical Center as well as a Clinical Adjunct Professor for the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy and USC School of Pharmacy.
Jean M. Bidlack
Discovery of Samidorphan, a medication currently in multiple Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials
NeuroEngineering (Dr. John McDonald Memorial session)
Venkatraman Sadanand
University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine
Zeiss Neurophotonics and Brain Mapping
Bahram Jalali
Professor and Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
Neuroradiology Subcommittee
Aaron Filler
Institute for Nerve Medicine · Neurosurgery
Neurophysiology Subcommittee
Dawn Eliashiv
Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology
John Stern
Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology
Advance Material in Brain and Spine Discovery and Therapy Subcommittee
Ed Boyden
Prof. Ed Boyden completed his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Master of Engineering at MIT.
Pablo Valdes Quevedo
Pablo is originally from Central America, and moved to the USA to pursue his training as a physician scientist.
Neurotherapeutics Subcommittee
Kuldip Sidhu
Kuldip Sidhu, PhD, BSC (Medical) is a stem cell expert at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Kelly Ryder
Dr. Kelly, a Louisiana native, began his athletic career as a long distance runner when he was only 14 years old.
Combat Casualty Care Subcommittee
Tracie Lattimore
Tracie Lattimore is special advisor to the director of the Clinical Affairs Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
Marcello Pilia
Assistant Portfolio Manager at Combat Casualty Care Research Program
Management of Brain and Spine Trauma Subcommittee
Wayman Cheatham
Dr. Wayman Wendell Cheatham is the Director of Navy Medicine RD Center; Director, Clinical Investigation Programs, USA
Defense Veteran Traumatic Brain Injury (DVBIC) Subcommittee
Saafan Malik
Dr. Saafan Malik is the Director of the Research Division at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC).
Neuromodulation Subcommittee
Vivek Patel
Human Connectomes for Low Vision, Blindness, and Sight Restoration
Quantum Biology Subcommittee
Keith Allen
Keith Allen, DO, CNMT, ARMRIT has recently published a book titled "Quantum Mechanics, Imaging and Other Technologies" This book explores the quantum paradigm and its importance for many medical technologies. Dr. Allen is a guest lecturer for the American Registry of MRI Technologists, (ARMRIT) and is also a guest lecturer for the SBMT.
Commercialization of Neuroscience: Taking Science and IP to Market Subcommittee
Tom Oser
As founder and president of Oser & Company consulting, Tom Oser delivers technology & management consulting services to clients that bridge the gap between technology and business.
SBIR/STTR Workshop Subcommittee
Rick Shindell
Rick Shindell, president of Zyn Systems, is a long time SBIR and federal technology transfer advocate.
Barry Datlof
Barry Datlof is the Director, Medical Technology Transfer at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command.
Business Planning and Pitching in the Venture Capital Shark Tank Subcommittee
George Abe
George Abe teaches Entrepreneurship and Venture Initiation. He is also is a lecturer and Faculty Director of the Strategic Management Research (SMR) Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Spine Subcommittee
Namath Hussain
Namath Hussain is a staff neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurosurgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center.
Mike Y. Chen
A prolific researcher, talented physician and board-certified neurosurgeon, Mike Y. Chen, M.D., Ph.D., has been on the City of Hope team since 2007.
Jeffrey Wang
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery USC Spine Center
Gene Therapy for Brain Disorders Subcomittee
Steven Gray
Dr. Steven Gray earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University in 2006, after receiving a B.S. degree with honors from Auburn University.
Military Medicine and Veterans Subcomittee
Michael F.Bergeron
Michael F. Bergeron, Ph.D., SIVOTEC Analytics, FACSM is Senior Vice President of Development & Applications.
Michael J Roy
Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of Military Internal Medicine
Cochair Subcomittee
Arash Kamali
Assistant Professor, Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Biophotonics Subcomittee
Mohammad R.N. Avanaki
In 2012, Mohammad received a Ph.D. with Outstanding Achievement in Medical Optical Imaging and Computing from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom.
Scientific Subcomittee
Jennifer Fogarty
Chief Scientist, NASA Human Research Program, USA
Scientific Cerebrovascular Subcomittee
Laligam N. Sekhar
Dr. Sekhar is known around the world for his expertise in treating complex neurosurgical problems, particularly skull base tumors, such as acoustic neuromas, meningiomas, chordomas and complex brain tumors.
Scientific Neurosurgery Subcomittee
Jason Cormier's
Dr. Jason Cormier of Acadiana Neurosurgery in Lafayette, Louisiana, graduated from St. Thomas More High School in Lafayette.
Scientific Neuroscience Subcomittee
Markus Diesmann
Markus Diesmann in the Laboratory for Computational and Systems Neuroscience studies the dynamics of recurrent neural networks