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University of California , USA
| Biography Dr. Kaloostian attended Providence High School, a national blue ribbon high school, where his interest in the Neurosciences began. He spent his summers studying neuroscience, physics, and organic chemistry at Brown University, Stanford University, and Harvard University. He then matriculated into the extremely competitive University of California BS/BA/MD accelerated program out of high school. This rigorous 7-year program is the only one of its kind in California and one of a handful across the United States. After finishing medical school at the prestigious David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Dr. Kaloostian attended the University of New Mexico Medical Center for Neurological Surgery residency where he excelled in Cranial and Spinal Surgery, including Neuro-Trauma. He then completed a prestigious Complex Spine and Spinal Oncology instructorship under the mentorship of the renowned ZiyaGokaslan MD, FACS at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Kaloostian is a prolific author, researcher, and scientist having authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, over 100 book chapters, 12 peer-reviewed scientific textbooks, 2 poetry books, and 1 novel which has been nominated for a California Book Award. Research Interest Spinal cord tumors, Traumatic brain and Spinal cord injury |  |
Harvard Medical School, USA
| Biography Dr. Amanjot Kaur Riar received PhD (pharmacology and neuroscience) and MBA from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Texas, USA. She joined Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard affiliated hospital as a Research Manager in the Department of Medicine in 2016. Prior to coming to BWH, she worked as a Senior Research Associate at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. During her doctoral training, her research project was focused on exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying abnormal neurogenesis in fetal alcohol syndrome. Her investigated the effect of ethanol on Tbr2-positive basal progenitor cell proliferation which populate the cortical layers and conversely the mechanism of alcohol-induced cerebral cortex abnormalities resulting from impaired proliferation. She have shown that ethanol inhibits the proliferation of basal progenitors through altering the expression of cell cycle proteins. Her studies also revealed that ethanol alters the activity of glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β) signaling pathway in central nervous system, where it is predominantly found and modifies various neurogenetic processes by regulating downstream targets. Her postdoctoral research involved understanding the role of mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPR) in SOD1-G93A model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). She investigated the intermembrane space (IMS)-UPRmt in G93A-SOD1mousemodel of familial ALS, since mutant SOD1 is known to accumulate in the IMS of neural tissue and cause mitochondrial dysfunction. Using a mouse model in which G93A-SOD1 was selectively targeted to the IMS, she demonstrated that the IMS-UPRmt could be specifically initiated by mutant SOD1 localized in the IMS.
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Wake Forest School of Medicine Medical Center Boulevard, USA
| Biography Dr. Whitlow is an Associate Professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, where he is Chief of Neuroradiology and Vice-Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Radiology. He also has cross-disciplinary faculty appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), serving as Director of the Combined MD/PhD Program and Associate Leader of the CTSI Translational Imaging Program. As a board-certified Diagnostic Radiologist with focused subspecialty fellowship training in neuroradiology, Dr. Whitlow has broad clinical expertise in brain, head-neck and spine imaging. Dr. Whitlow is also a neuroimaging physician-scientist and neuroepidemiologist, with specific doctoral training in translational neurophysiology/neuropharmacology, including experience using human research subjects and research animal models to explore the effects of diseases and conditions affecting brain structure and function. He has a strong informatics background as well, with extensive experience using a variety of computational informatics techniques to analyze epidemiologic and neuroimaging data, including graph theoretical brain network connectivity methods and machine learning. Dr. Whitlow’s extensive training in epidemiology and public health research methodologies as a graduate of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has provided him with the critical training necessary to lead important large-scale studies of diseases at the population level funded by the National Institutes of Health. His research has resulted in more than 200 published peer-reviewed journal articles, abstracts and book chapters, and has been cited over 1000 times in the peer-reviewed literature. Research Interest Dr. Whitlowspecializes in structural/functional neuroimaging methods applied to translational paradigms to explore changes in the brain associated with normal development, aging, disease pathophysiology and intervention. He has expertise in processing and statistical analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data acquired from humans and non-human primates, such as arterial spin labeling (ASL) cerebral perfusion, blood oxygen level dependent functional MRI (fMRI), voxel-based morphometry (VBM), and advanced diffusion imaging, such as diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI). He also has expertise in addition functional neuroimaging methods, such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) and positron emission tomography (PET). |  |
Wayne State university, USA
| Biography Dr.Sara Razmjou is a graduate of medicine from Tehran University of medical sciences (Iran; 2004-2011) and Masters of Neuroscience (Carleton University, Canada; 2012-2014). She has good experiences in experimental and clinical research, excellent abilities in literature review, research methodology and SPSS. During my medical studies, she have conducted and published several papers in internal medicine. Furthermore, during my graduate studies in Neuroscience filed, she has become familiar with experimental studies and laboratory techniques.
Furthermore, after her graduate studies, she moved to States to pursue her aspirations in Neurology field both in terms of research and clinical perspective. She has worked as post doctoral research associate at Wayne State University, department of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis center since April 2015. She have cooperated with many research projects and clinical trials on multiple sclerosis, NMO, Huntington disease and movement disorders at this center. She got exceptional experiences in image analysis; MRI and MRS data post processing techniques including; Image conversion, Brain T2 segmentation, Image registration, Image normalization and Image segmentation, MRI and MRS data analysis procedures including; ROI analysis, Brain tissue volume, MS lesion volume estimation, Brain atrophy, MTR mapping, DTI mapping, Cortical thickness mapping, Deep gray matter volume, Metabolite concentration and Spinal cord atrophy. She was certified for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) since last October. Research Interest Neuro-immunology (multiple sclerosis), neurodegenerative disorders, inflammatory cytokine and their role in Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders. |  |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
| Biography Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. Professor Tang completed his medical training at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an academic staff since 1999. His main research area is Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Research Interest l. psychiatric morbidity in stroke, namely dementia, cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, apathy, fatigue, emotional incontinence, suicidality, insomnia, pain, and quality of life. 2. psychiatric morbidity in Pneumoconiosis and Parkinson’s disease, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia, Psychogeriatrics and Substance Abuse. |  |
State University of Londrina Parana, Brazil
| Biography Graduated in Medicine in 1987, and residency training in neurosurgery from 1987 to 1992. Fellowship in Skull base surgery, peripheral nerve, and spine from 1992 to 1993 in Nordstadt Krankenhaus, Hannover, Germany. Finished his PhD in Neuropathology , meningiomas in 1998, presenting a PhD. In 2006 presented his tesis of "Private Dozent" about Meningiomas and tentorial classification. Did his post Doc Fellow in Stanford University, California, in the Pituitary Center. Received the award Fourth Echols Dean lecturer in 2010 by Ochsner Foundation and Tulane University. Research Interest
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Lehigh University, USA
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Dr. Jennifer Swann is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Penn State, her masters in psychobiology at Florida State, her PhD at Northwestern and postdoctoral work at University of Michigan. Research Interest
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Toho University Omori Hospital, Japan
| Biography Graduated Toho University Medical School at Tokyo in Japan on March 31th 1978. Passed the Japanese National Board Medical Examination on May 1978. Worked research fellow in Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston under Dr.Appel inUSA between October 1984 and October 1986. Assistant professor of Neurology, Toho University Ohashi Hospital from April 1991 and associate professor of Neurology, Toho University Ohashi Hospital on April 1997 and became Professor and Chairman in Department of Neurology Toho University Omori Hospital from April 2005 and present time. Research Interest
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Annunziata Hospital, Italy
| Biography Dr Siniscalchi is a medical doctor, Clinical specialist (neurologist) and responsible of Rare Disease in Neurology and responsible of Cerebrovascular disease and Neurosonology in the Department of Neuroscience, Neurology Division “Annunziata” Hospital – Cosenza, Italy. He is adjunct professor at the Department of Pharmacology Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia" .
He is member of Scientific National Comitee of “Progress in Neuroscience” official bulletin of the Italian Society of Hospital Neurologists, Neurosurgeons and Neuroradiologists (S.N.O.) and Member of National Comitee of Italian National Society of Neurovascular Disease (SINV) and Editor in Chief of Newletter SINV. He is editorial board in Progress in Neuroscience and Molecular Enzymology and Drug Targets. He is peer reviewer for “Scientific Journals International”, Stroke and Neurology.
He since 2001is an expert in the cerebrovascular disease and in the Neurosonology (Ecocolor doppler extracranial and intracranial) and he is an expert on intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator for the treatment of acute cerebral ischemia. He has, after training, online certification NIHSS for stroke scale of the Italian National Institutes of Health (University of Rome"La Sapienza”)
Dr Siniscalchi is author and co-author of scientific publications in neurology and neuropharmacology. Scientific publications have been cited by various authors in medical journals with impact factor international bibliography of international scientific books. Previously scientific publications arising from studies abroad as a postdoctoral fellowship research atthe Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University - Montreal (Canada). In the latter case, the researches were conducted in collaborations with the Neurology Clinic, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Neurorehabilitation Hospital IRCCS "S. Lucia, Rome and the Department of Physiology, Laboratory of Neurophysiology University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Furthermore, recent scientific publications are collaborations between Department of Neuroscience, Neurology Division “Annunziata” Hospital – Cosenza with the Neurological Clinic of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and IRCCS Rehabilitation Hospital "S. Lucia, Rome and with the Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia". Research Interest |  |
The University of Chicago, USA
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University of South Florida, USA
| Biography Dr. Chuanhai Cao got his Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology and Virology at Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin China, and currently is a tenure track Assistant professor in the department of Pharmaceutical sciences at the college of Pharmacy, University of South Florida. He has published over 50 peer review publications. Recently, his research team has been focusing on how the immune system is impaired by aging and how the impaired immune system is associated to the early onset and progress of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Cao’s team also strive to delay or slow down the progress of AD by modulating the immune system using natural and nutraceutical products, such as coffee, caffeine, melatonin and other herb extractions. He has led his team to develop several immunotherapies against AD and PD. They are the first team who used antigen sensitized dendritic cells as vaccine against AD and PD. Their idea on how to delay the onset of AD has been adopted and proved to be very effective by AD patients. Their research publications have been reported by many worldwide news media and organizations. He holds two patents and currently has six patents pending. Research Interest
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University of Virginia, USA
| Biography Dale Ding obtained his M.D. from Duke University and is currently a senior neurosurgery resident at the University of Virginia. He has published over 100 articles, primarily in the field of cerebrovascular disease, and he has presented over 40 abstracts at national and regional meetings. He serves as the Associate Editor of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation and presides on the editorial boards of JSciMed Neurosurgery and Spine, Journal of Cerebrovascular Disease, Austin Journal of Cerebrovascular Disease & Stroke, and Austin Journal of Radiation Oncology & Cancer. Research Interest
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Griffith University, Australia
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Florida Atlantic University, USA
| Biography Dr.Jianning Wei is currently an Associate Professor of Charles E.Schmidt of Medcine at Florida Atlantic University. She received her Ph.D in Bio-chemistry from University of Kansas in 2003. In 2006, she joined Florida Atlantic University as an Assitant Professor. Dr. Wei is a Molecular Neurobiologist with extensive research experience in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Research Interest
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School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
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Dr. Dongming Cai joined Mount Sinai in July 2010, where she continues to advance our understanding of the workings of the central nervous system and the processes involved in defining disease mechanisms. Prior to coming to Mount Sinai, she was trained by many prestigious basic research scientists. She obtained her PhD in Neuroscience in the laboratory of Dr. Marie Filbin at Hunter College of The City University of New York, where she studied the roles of cyclic AMP in blocking myelin-derived inhibitors of axonal regeneration in animal models of spinal cord injury. Subsequently, she completed postdoctoral training mentored by Nobel Laureate Dr. Paul Greengard at The Rockefeller University in New York where she conducted research on Alzheimer’s disease focusing on the regulation of βAPP processing and trafficking and the impact of these processes on neuronal function. Besides basic research training, she further obtained clinical expertise in neurology and expanded her exposure to translational research during residency training at Yale Neurology Department. Research Interest
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Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA
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University of Texas, USA
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Dr. Ratna Bhavaraju-Sanka's first experience of medicine started in the footsteps of her father who is a Neurosurgeon in India. Being a physician in a third world country with limited technology and access to care, She had to work through tough situations. Technological advancements have made available variety of different techniques today to find the right diagnosis, but that is only the beginning. Her interests in Neurology and Neuromuscular disorders, was further bolstered in medical school by my mentors. She had the opportunity to work under Dr.Krishnamoorty Srinivas in Chennai who trained under the auspices of National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen’s square, London. He made her understand the role of clinical research in furthering medical care. From there she embarked on a journey to further my knowledge as a clinician and researcher. During her fellowship she was trained to evaluate and treat patients with carried neuromuscular conditions and performed electrodiagnostic evaluation. Under the guidance of her mentor Dr. James Howard Jr., she started a project of quantitatively analyzing electrophysiological abnormalities (Motor unit pattern analysis and stimulated single fiber recordings) in Golden retriever muscular dystrophy model so we can develop measures to objectively evaluate outcomes in preclinical trials of dystrophinopathies. I also had the opportunity to evaluate patients with Autonomic disorders along with performing standard autonomic function testing. After finishing fellowship, she joined Dr. Carlayne Jackson and her team at University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. She had the opportunity to be a part of the multidisciplinary team working in Muscular Dystrophy association and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis association clinics. She also established the first Autonomic disorders lab in San Antonio. The care of patient with some of these debilitating incurable neuromuscular diseases is challenging yet the smile on their faces when we see them and talk to them gives you the strength to go forward in search of the magic potion that will cure their miseries. Research Interest
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Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
| Biography Dr. Soundarya Gowda completed her Medical training at JJM medical college in India (2004) and internship in Preliminary Internal medicine at Long Island College Hospital in New York (2007). She pursued further residency training and Chief Resident in Adult Neurology, and Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She is currently an Assistant Professor in Neurology at VCU. She is also the Medical directory of Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and Associate Program Director for Adult Neurology residency. Her main interests are management of Refractory Epilepsy, Epilepsy surgeries and Neurological outcomes of post anoxic hypothermic patients. Apart from clinical and administrative works, she love to teach and have been awarded the outstanding resident teacher award (2008), Outstanding teacher award at VCU Neurology (2013) and she is recognized by AAN (American Academy of Neurology) with AB Baker Teacher award (2014). She received the Young Investigator travel scholarship by AES in 2012. Research Interest
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Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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Syndi Seinfeld received doctorate in osteopathic medicine from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM) in Old Westbury, New York. Her postdoctoral training has included a rotating internship at the Good Samaritan Medical Center in West Islip, New York, as well as a Pediatric Residency, Child Neurology fellowship and Neurophysiology fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Research Interest
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UC San Diego School of Medicine, USA
| Biography Dr. John Crawford graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has a Master’s of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the same institution. He completed his Child Neurology and Neuro-Oncology Training at Children’s National Medical Center. He is currently Program Director of the Child Neurology Fellowship Program at the University of California San Diego and Director of Neuro-Oncology at Rady Children’s Hospital. Research Interest
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Houston Methodist Hospital, USA
| Biography Dr. Gavin W Britz is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Hospital, and Professor of Neurological Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College in NY. He leads an acclaimed team of Neurosurgeons and affiliated professionals and is recognized as one of the nation’s foremost Cerebrovascular, Skull base and Brain tumor surgeons. Prior to Houston, he came from Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina where he served as Director of the Cerebrovascular Center and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery. Earlier in his career, he was Co-Director of the Neurological Surgery Unit and Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery at Harbor view Medical Center while serving as Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. He leads basic science and clinical studies to understand stroke causation and evaluates novel tools to treat brain aneurysms and skull base tumors. Research Interest
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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA
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Dr. Gustavo Rodriguez was the first interventional Neurologist to graduate from an ACGME accredited fellowship in Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology. He is currently an Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of the Neurology Department at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine in El Paso, Texas. Research Interest
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Cookeville Regional Medical Center, USA
| Biography Dr. Turkewitz is a Neurohospitalist on staff at Cookeville Regional Medical Center who specializes in critically ill patients in the hospital with Neurology concerns including stroke. Board certified and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, he came to Cookeville from Baptist hospital in Nashville where he served as a Neurohospitalist and medical director of the Neurophysiology Lab. He received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1976. He performed his internship in Internal Medicine at St. Luke’s Hospital Center (affiliated with Columbia University) in New York and a residency in Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. With more than 32 years experience in the field of Neurology, he is board certified in Neurology and in Electromyography. He is one of the first dedicated Neurohospitalists in the country dating back to the 1990’s at Charity Hospital in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. His publications demonstrate his diverse interests all focused on clinical Neurology at the bedside. Research Interest
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Saint Louis University, USA
| Biography Ghazala Hayat joined St. Louis University faculty in 1986 and was appointed the director of Neuromuscular Service and the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory. She graduated from King Edward Medical College in Pakistan in 1977. She finished her Neurology residency at the Medical College Virginia in 1985. The following year she pursued a fellowship in Neuromuscular diseases and Electrodiagnostic medicine at the same institution. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Neuromuscular Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and has clinical neurophysiology certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is the director of Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry at St. Louis University. She is also director of ALS clinic which is the only ALSA certified center in the St. Louis area. She has published on various topics in her area of expertise. She has served on the Education Workshop and Laboratory Accreditation Committees of the American Association of Neuromuscular Disorders & Electrodiagnostic Medicine. She has been an examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a fellow of American Academy of Neurologists, American Association of Neuromuscular Disorders & Electrodiagnostic Medicine. She has edited a book "Peripheral Neuropathy; Advances in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches". She has served on workshop, education, laboratory accreditation committees of AANEM. She has been selected as Best Doctors in America in 2007- 2013. Research Interest
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University of Texas Medical School, USA
| Biography Gang Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Research Interest
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Temple University, USA
| Biography Dr. Ruma Mukerjee is an Assistant Professor in Fels Institute at Temple University. She received her PhD from KG Medical College, India and completed her postdoctoral training in University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Mukerjee has been involved in biomedical research for several years and published 33 papers in reputed journals. Research Interest
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UCLA School of Medicine, USA
| Biography Dr. Linda M. Liau is Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Director of the UCLA Brain Tumor Program. She received her B.S. degree in Biochemistry and B.A. degree in Political Science, both with honors, from Brown University. She then received her M.D. degree from Stanford University in 1991, and a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from UCLA in 1999. After completing her residency and fellowship training in Neurosurgery at UCLA, she joined the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine, and is now a tenured Professor of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is currently a board-certified Neurosurgeon with both an active research laboratory and a busy clinical practice in the field of brain tumors and Neurosurgical oncology. She is currently ranked as one of the top 1% of Neurosurgeons in the country by U.S. News Top Doctors. She has been the Principal Investigator on several NIH research grants over the past 15 years, and she is the mentor for several NIH training grants (R25, K01, K12, T32) for residents, fellows, and postdoctoral researchers in her laboratory. She is the lead investigator on various novel clinical trials for brain cancer patients, and developed one of the first human applications of a personalized brain tumor vaccine (DCVax-L®), which is currently being tested in multi-center clinical trials in the United States and Europe. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed research articles, along with several book chapters, and a textbook entitled Brain Tumor Immunotherapy. She is on the editorial boards of several scientific/medical journals and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuro-Oncology. Research Interest
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Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, USA
| Biography Dr. Erik J. Kobylarz is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Dartmouth Medical School, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College and Director of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Columbia University, Medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, as well as a doctorate in Biomedical Engineering from Dartmouth College. After completing an internship in internal medicine, he finished his residency in Neurology, then a fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he underwent further fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology and intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was previously Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, as well as Director of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring at Weill Cornell Medical College. During his time in the military he served as the Clinical Director and U.S. Army Surgeon General Consultant of Telemedicine for the European Regional Medical Command. His major subspecialty interests include neurophysiology, epilepsy, He has published on a broad range of topics, but mostly focusing on the quantitative analyses of neurophysiologic signals from patients with epilepsy and brain injuries. In addition to being active in professional society and hospital committees, he has served as a reviewer for 7 neurology and ophthalmology journals. Throughout his career he has participated in a number of NIH, as well as medical device and pharmaceutical industry sponsored clinical trials. His research projects include the study of neurostimulation, i.e., vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation and responsive cortical and subcortical stimulation, for the treatment of epilepsy and brain injuries. Research Interest
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Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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Dr.Severn B. Churnis an accomplished Neurochemist who has extensive experience in characterizing the biochemical and electrophysiological effects of epilepsy, head trauma, aging and stroke. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Medical College of Virginia. He continued his training in The Department of Neurology. He is now an Associate professor of Neurology with joint appointments in Anatomy and Neurobiology, Physiology and Biophysics and Pharmacology and Toxicology. Research Interest
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UCLA Neurosurgery, USA
| Biography Dr. Nader Pouration is a Neurosurgeon at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he is the Director of the Neurosurgical Movement Disorders Program and the Peripheral Nerve Surgery Program. He earned his medical degree and his PhD in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging at the UCLA School of Medicine and completed his Neurosurgery residency at the University of Virginia Medical Center. His clinical interests center around surgeries to restore and preserve Brain and Neurological function, including deep brain stimulation, intrathecal therapy, peripheral nerve repair and stimulation, surgeries that require brain mapping, and functional radiosurgery. He utilizes the most advanced neuroimaging, as well as, brain and nerve mapping techniques, including functional MRI, cortical stimulation mapping, electrocorticographic (ECoG) mapping, optical imaging of intrinsic signals, and intraoperative EMG and nerve conduction studies. He focusses on further developing these mapping tools to increase the surgical indications and to develop new therapies for functional preservation and restoration. His research program builds upon his training in Neuroimaging and signal analysis to develop restorative Neurosurgical interventions and identify imaging and Neurophysiological biomarkers to guide and monitor such interventions. Specific areas of research include Developing novel imaging and electrophysiological methods to personalize neuromodulatory therapies, including both fMRI, diffusion tractography based techniques, and field potential mapping, Improving the accuracy and reliability of non-invasive communications systems for the neurologically impaired, including p300 speller technology, Developing EEG and ECoG based brain computer interfaces aimed at developing novel neuroprostheses to restore neurological function, including motor, visual and language function. Research Interest
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University of Minnesota, USA
| Biography Dr. Yang Xiaofeng is currently an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Minnesota. He received his M.D. from Beijing University in 1983. He completed postdoctoral training at Washington University in St Louis, where he was later appointed a research assistant professor in the Department of Neurology. He joined the Department of Neurology at the University of Minnesota, School of Medicine as an associate professor in 2007. Research Interest
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