Our Mentors

Last Name	First Name	Degree	Research
Appleby	Brian	MD	Director of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Program; study and treatment of patients with human prion diseases
Blakeley	Jaishri	MD	Diagnosis and management of primary brain tumors in adults; development of techniques to assess and maximize drug delivery to brain tumors
Boatman	Dana	PhD	Cortical mapping and modeling studies in neurosurgery patients and cortical auditory function in children with epilepsy and autism
Brown	Amanda	PhD	HIV-human macrophage host pathogen interaction and genetic associations with HIV neurocognitive disorder
Farah	Mohamed	PhD	The role of BACE1 inhibition in the clearance of debris and axonal regeneration in injured peripheral nerve
Gama	Lucio	MS	Innate immune aspects of SIV infection, especially the role of some pattern recognition receptors
Gamaldo	Charlene	MD	Sleep medicine, specifically investigating the co-morbid health consequences of chronic sleep deprivation
Gipson	Tanjala	MD	Tuberous sclerosis in children with Autism
Grados	Marcos	MD, MPH	Genetic epidemiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette syndrome.
Hall	Scott	PhD	Complex genetics of addictions and related phenotypes
Hartman	Adam	MD, PhD	Mechanisms by which the ketogenic diet improves symptoms of patients with epilepsy
Haughey	Norman	PhD	Signal transduction pathways that are associated with neurodegenerative processes
Johnston	Michael	MD, PhD	Brain injury in infants and children
Kadam	Shilpa	PhD	The study of epileptogenesis
Kahng	SungWoo	PhD	Behavioral assessment of severe problem behaviors
Lal	Bachchu	PhD	Growth detection and malignancy of brain tumors
Landenheim	Ellen	PhD	The role of the mammalianbombesin-like peptides in the control of food intake and energy balance
Lesser	Ronald	MD	Diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and evaluation of central nervous system function; Development of new forms of treatment for patients with intractable epileptic seizures
Levy	Michael	MD, PhD	Pathogenesis of neuromyelitis optical (NMO) using a combination of biochemistry, tissue culture, and animal models. He also serves as Director of the NMO Clinic
Maragakis	Nicholas	MD	Role of astrocytes in causing and propagating neurological diseases, such as ALS; Use and transplantation of astrocyte stem cells into animal models of diseases to establish their potential to treat patients with neurologic disease
Margolis	Russell	MD	A major emphasis is determining the etiology and pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders affecting the cerebellum and basal ganglia, and describing the psychiatric aspects of such disorders; genetic risk factors for bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism
Mari	Zoltan	MD	Neurophysiology of and motor control in dystonia, with particular interest in basal ganglia pathophysiology
McArthur	Julie	RN	Specializes in treatment and management of patients with HIV infection
McArthur	Justin	MBBS, MPH	Natural history, development and treatment of HIV infection, multiple sclerosis and other neurological infections and immune-mediated neurological disorders and the study sensory neuropathies, including those associated with chemotherapy, HIV and diabetes
Moghekar	Abhay	MD	Clinical work focuses on dementia of all types with a special interest in adult hydrocephalus; Affects of age on nerve cells processing of beta-amyloid a protein thought to be critical to the development of Alzheimer’s disease
Naidu	SakkuBai	MD	Developmental and neurogenetic disorders affecting children and adults
Nyquist	Paul	MD	Identification of genetic risk factors for stroke and biomarkers and genetic risks for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage
Onyike	Chiadi	MD	Cognitive and neuropsychiatric features of Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)
Pardo	Carlos	MD	Neuroimmunological and infectious disorders of the nervous system, particularly multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, neurosarcoidosis and neurological complications of autoimmune disorders
Pletnikov	Mikhail	MD, PhD	Molecular and cellular mechanisms of abnormal brain development with relevance to neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and autism
Rao	Vani	MD	Risk factors for depression and disability after traumatic brain injury
Salas	Rachel	MD	Mechanisms of sleep, neuroplasticity, motor learning environmental sleep disorder and impact on patient outcomes
Sawa	Akira	PhD	The pathogenesis of neuropsychiatric illness including schizophrenia and neurodegenerative disorders
Schubert	Michael	PhD	Control adaptation of vestibular reflexes and compensatory mechanisms recruited for gaze stability
Smith-Hicks	Constance	MD, PhD	Neural networks in Down’s Syndrome and Fragile X
Solomon	David	MD, PhD	Adult hydrocephalus, vestibular and balance disorders
Steiner	Joseph	PhD	Drug development for Neuro AIDS
Stins	Monique	PhD	The role of the blood-brain-barrier in neurological infections
Sumner	Charlotte	MD	Molecular pathogenesis of different forms of spinal muscular atrophy with particular attention to therapeutics development for these disorders
Treisman	Glenn	MD	Treatment of psychiatric disorders in HIV infected patients
Uhl	George	MD, PhD	Complex genetics of addictions and related phenotypes
Zackowski	Kathy	PhD, OTR	Motor control problems as a result of neurodegenerative disease processes such as multiple sclerosis and adrenomyeloneuropathy
Ziai	Wendy	MD	Management of critically ill patients with neurologic diseases with special interest in several types of brain hemorrhages
Zink	Mary Christine	PhD, DVM	SIV/rhesus macaque model to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of HIV neuropathogenesis