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Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy, the junior United States Senator for Connecticut, has dedicated his career to public service as an advocate for Connecticut families. Senator Murphy has been a strong voice in the Senate fighting for job creation, affordable health care, education, sensible gun laws, and a forward-looking foreign policy. As a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) Senator Murphy has worked to make college more affordable and ensure that our public education system works to serve all students. Senator Murphy also led a bipartisan effort to reform our mental health system, working across the aisle to craft the first comprehensive mental health bill in the Senate in decades. Senator Murphy has laid out a forward-thinking foreign policy vision for the United States. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he has been an outspoken proponent of diplomacy, international human rights and the need for clear-eyed American leadership abroad. Following the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012, Senator Murphy became one of the leading proponents of commonsense reforms to reduce gun violence. He has championed a number of bipartisan bills aimed at expanding background checks and keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Murphy has fought to increase investments in Connecticut manufacturing and promote procurement of world-class national defense products made in the state. He has fought to expand American manufacturing and create jobs through his Buy American initiative, which urges the U.S. government to spend taxpayer dollars on American-made goods. Additionally, Senator Murphy has worked in partnership with local city and town leaders to rehabilitate former brownfield and factory sites so that they can be developed into new community spaces and businesses. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Murphy served Connecticut’s Fifth Congressional District for three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. During his time in the House, Murphy worked to improve access to housing for homeless veterans, foster job creation and advocate for affordable healthcare for all Americans. Murphy authored the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act to revitalize housing programs for people with disabilities. The bill was signed into law by the president in 2010. Before getting elected to Congress, Murphy served for eight years in Connecticut General Assembly where he was the author of the state’s historic stem cell investment legislation and the state’s workplace smoking ban. Senator Murphy grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and attended Williams College in Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law and practiced real estate and banking law with the firm of Ruben, Johnson & Morgan in Hartford, Connecticut. He is married to Catherine Holahan, an attorney. They have two sons, Owen and Rider, as well as two cats and two guinea pigs.

Andy Harris

Dr. Bennet Omalu, Congressman Andy Harris and Corporal Carpenter Receive Prestigious Recognition by a Leading BRAIN MAPPING ASSOCIATION, which has Launched and Supported GLOBAL BRAIN MAPPING INITIATIVES MIAMI, April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), the leading multi-specialty association for Brain Mapping, is holding its 13th Annual World Congress for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics in Miami, FL 8-10 April 2016 in partnership with Florida International University (FIU), the Brain Mapping Foundation, Children’s Hospital Miami, Uskudar University Turkey, the Institute for Nerve Medicine, and the California Neurosurgical Institute. Other strategic partners include National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US Army’s Office of the Surgeon General, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the Department of State, Department of Energy, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Defense (DoD) and industry leaders: X2 BioSystems Inc., Surgical Theater, Medtronic, Stryker, EIZO , Haag-Streit USA, Time Medical, Nordic NeuroLab and Compumatics. The SBMT has been on the forefront of the global advocacy for BRAIN initiatives.  Last year SBMT advocated and formulated African BRAIN Initiative, Middle East, and Malaysian BRAIN Initiatives to join brain initiatives already established in the US, Australia and Turkey, and also started a new SBMT chapter in Israel. This past year, SBMT leaders joined with Turkish scientists and physicians and held its 2nd Annual G20 Brain Mapping Initiative Summit in Istanbul and Ankara in Turkey jump starting Middle East-Turkey BRAIN Initiative. SBMT has been the global innovative leader in Brain Mapping, and has provided the model and impetus for the newly introduced International brain mapping course at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), and a newly established initiative in brain mapping by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) organizations. The organization also has a special issue of Neurophotonics and Brain Mapping with SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering. “SBMT has been pushing for more global initiatives and global partnerships in last decade, and I am pleased to see that our advocacy has been fruitful,” said Aaron Filler, M.D., Ph.D., J.D.  (13th President of SBMT) At the Annual Congress Gala Awards several individuals will be honored for their work and dedicated support of various brain research programs. Corporal William Kyle Carpenter, USMC (ret), recent and youngest living recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, is receiving SBMT’s Beacon of Courage and Dedication Award. The award committee is truly pleased to select these remarkable recipients this year. We are honored to recognize their transformative discovery and achievements in science, medicine, and policy making,” said Vicky Yamamoto, Ph.D., a cancer scientist at Keck School of Medicine of USC, Chair of the Awards Committee, and Co-Chair of the Science Committee. Ken Green, D.M.D. and Vicky Yamamoto, Ph.D. will be the recipients of the Golden Axon Leadership award.  “Dr. Yamamoto has been devoting her last 13 years to SBMT’s global strategic and programmatic development; her leadership has been essential in advancing science and policy of SBMT,” said Babak Kateb, MD, Founding Chairman of the Board of SBMT. “Dr. Ken Green has been truly a great force behind our wounded warrior BRAIN Initiative and has been devoted to the SBMT cause for many years; we are grateful for their visionary leadership” he continued. Ruogu Fang, Ph.D.  is the recipient of the Robin Sidhu Memorial Young Scientist Award.  A Young Investigator Award will be selected and announced during the Gala Awards on April, 09/16. The National Space Biomedical Research Institute has also partnered with SBMT for its NSBRI-SBMT Young Investigator Award; the finalist will be announced at the meeting. The SBMT also has partnered with Haag-Streit USA and introduced a new clinical fellowship in skull base. Salman Abbasi Fard, M.D. is the recipient of the 2016 HS-SBMT Fellowship Award. “The Robin Sidhu Memorial Young Scientist Award is aimed at advancing the translation of information technology and supercomputing into neuroscience and brain discovery,” said Kuldip Sidhu Ph.D., member of the board of SBMT and Vice Chairman of the G20 World Brain Mapping Initiative The Scientific Program includes more than 200 presenters covering brain cancer, psychiatric disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, neurotrauma, neural repair, and regeneration, nanoneuroscience, cellular therapeutics, and immunotherapy, spinal disorders, engineering, brain policy and initiatives and radiation oncology. “The SBMT science committee invested 16 months in the preparation of this program, which is merely a snapshot of the scientific breadth of activities and achievements by our members,” said Dr. Ken Green, Executive Director of SBMT and co-chair of the awards and agenda committees. The membership, convention registration and gala registration are now open. Press Contact:Dr. Ken GreenExecutive Director of SBMTKen.Green@WorldBrainMapping.OrgCell: 202-577-5105 About SBMT:www.WorldBrainMapping.OrgAbout Brain Mapping Foundation:www.BrainMappingFoundation.Org SOURCE Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) Related Links http://www.WorldBrainMapping.Org

Senator Ben Allen

California State Senator representing the 24th Senate District, covering the Westside, Hollywood, South Bay, and Santa Monica Mountains communities of the Los Angeles County. First elected in 2014 and serving his third term in State Senate.

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