BRAIN Center Faculty Members

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	Researcher/Clinician Name	Title	Department	Specialties
	Jose Abisambra, PhD	Associate Professor, Assistant Dean of Diversity & Health Equity	Department of Neuroscience	Molecular mechanisms linking tau and ER dysfunction with neurodegeneration
	Pouya A Ameli, MD	Assistant Professor	Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery	Neurocritical care, genetics of stroke outcome
	Marc A. Babi, MD	Assistant Professor, Program Director of Neurocritical Care Fellowship	Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery	Neurocritical care, critical care simulation, systems of care in the ICU, acute ischemic stroke
	Russell Bauer, PhD, ABPP	Professor	Department of Clinical & Health Psychology	Clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury
	Jennifer Bizon, PhD	Professor & Chair	Department of Neuroscience	Brain aging, impairments in cognitive flexibility, working memory and decision making
	Gabriel Bonnell, MD	Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Acute management of ischemic stroke
	Prodip Bose, MD, PhD	Professor & Director	Department of Neurology	Spasticity after TBI/SCI
	Sarah Burke, PhD	Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Cognitive Aging and Memory Center	Department of Neuroscience	Mechanisms of cognition, effects of diet and metabolic function on resilience to memory loss in aging and disease
	Katharina Busl, MD	Clinical Associate Professor and Chief of Neurocritical Care	Department of Neurology	Acute ischemic stroke, traumatic brain injury, characterization of systemic complications in neurocritical illness
	Eduardo Candelario-Jalil, PhD	Associate Professor and Co-Coordinator Neuroscience Graduate Program	Department of Neuroscience	Advanced MRI and stroke, neuroinflammation, protective and preventive measures of cerebrovascular disorders
	Paramita Chakrabarty, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Neuroscience	immunobiotherapies for Alzheimer’s disease and other tauopathies / synucleinopathies
	Vijayendran Chandran, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Peripheral and central nervous system regeneration
	David Clark, ScD	Associate Professor	Department of Aging & Geriatric Research	Enhancing walking function in people with neurological impairments, Impact of age on functional outcomes post-injury
	James R Clugston, MD, MS, FAMSSM, CAQSM	Clinical Associate Professor and Sports Medicine Fellowship Director	Department of Community Health and Family Medicine	Sport-related concussion, sports medicine
	Ronald A Cohen, PhD, ABPP	Professor and Director of Clinical Translational Research in Cognitive Aging and Memory	Department of Clinical and Health Psychology	Clinical and experimental neuropsychology, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, neuropsychology of attention
	Erica Dale, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics	Spinal stimulation-induced phrenic motor plasticity; neurostimulation and functional recovery of breathing capacity after spinal injury
	Steven DeKosky, MD	Professor & Deputy Director of the McKnight Brain Institute	Department of Neurology	Alzheimer’s disease and dementia associated with traumatic brain injury
	Sylvain Doré, PhD, FAHA	Professor and Director of Anesthesiology Research Programs	Department of Anesthesiology	Mechanisms limiting neuronal dysfunction associated with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, traumatic brain injury, aging, and Alzheimer's disease
	Emily Fox, PT, PhD	Associate Professor & Director of Neuromuscular Research, Brooks Rehabilitation	Department of Physical Therapy	Control and recovery following neurologic injury and disease
	Janak Gaire, PhD	Research Assistant Scientist	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	Mammalian regeneration and fibrosis; Biological response to biomedical implants, including neural implants
	Carolyn Geis, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation	Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, post-stroke and brain injury spasticity
	Suman Ghosh MD, MPA	Clinical Assistant Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Pediatric brain injury, stroke, neurocritical care, neuronal rehabilitation, spasticity, and cerebral palsy
	Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Department of Physical Therapy	Respiratory plasticity induced by neurostimulation and intermittent hypoxia; spinal cord injury; sleep apnea & pathogenic intermittent hypoxia after SCI
	Shelley C Heaton, PhD	Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Pediatric Brain Injury Program	Department of Clinical and Health Psychology	Cognitive and behavioral outcomes after pediatric traumatic brain injury
	Daniel C Herman, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation	Sports biomechanics related to performance and injury risk, the effect of baseline neurocognition and concussions on biomechanics and injury risk
	Brian Hoh, MD, MBA	Chair, Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery James and Brigitte Marino Family Professor	Department of Neurosurgery	Neurosurgery, acute ischemic stroke, aneurysm clipping
	Michael Jaffee, MD, FAAN, FANA	Professor, Vice Chair of Neurology, and Center Director	Department of Neurology	Traumatic brain injury, concussion, sleep disorders
	Jack Judy, PhD	Professor and Director of NIMET	Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology	Advanced neural-interface technology and systems, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics
	Anna Yuzefovich Khanna, MD	Assistant Professor & Stroke Medical Director	Department of Neurology	Vascular neurology, acute ischemic stroke, aneurysm, stroke risk factors and prevention
	Alison Kraus, PT, DPT, NCS	Neurologic Physical Therapist	Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases	Sports-related concussion, TBI, anoxic and brain injury rehabilitation, impact of age on functional outcomes post-injury
	Jada Lewis, PhD	Professor and Co-Deputy Director of the McKnight Brain Institute	Department of Neuroscience	Pathology of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and ALS
	Andrew C Liu, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics	Circadian rhythms in mammals
	Carolina Maciel, MD, MSCR	Clinical Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Cognitive function after cardiac arrest/recovery, neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury
	Lisa Merck, MD, MPH, FACEP	Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Emergency Medicine	Department of Emergency Medicine	Neurological emergencies, critical care, resuscitation, and the COVID pandemic response
	Gordon Mitchell, PhD	Preeminence Professor and Director of the UF BREATHE Center	Department of Physical Therapy	Intermittent hypoxia induced respiratory plasticity, therapeutic intermittent hypoxia in spinal injury and ALS
	Gregory J A Murad, MD	Clinical Associate Professor and Residency Program Director	Department of Neurosurgery	Neurosurgery, metastatic brain tumor
	Stephen E Nadeau, MD	Professor	Department of Neurology	Application of parallel distributed processing theory to understand the neural basis of cognitive function and its breakdown with brain injury, rehabilitation strategies
	Kevin Otto, PhD	Professor & Senior Associate Chair	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Neural interfaces, multi-channel implantable micro devices for neural stimulation, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics; spinal/epidural stimulation
	Karim Oweiss, PhD	Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Neuroengineering, cortical compensation for SCI; neural interface design to restore, augment or repair lost sensorimotor function
	Michael A Pizzi, DO, PhD	Clinical Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Mechanisms of blood brain barrier breakdown after acute neurologic injuries
	José Principe, PhD	Distinguished Professor	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Neural networks, digital signal processing, brain machine interfaces
	Brent A Reynolds, PhD	Professor	Department of Neurosurgery	Neural stem cells, development of stem cell-specific assays
	Christopher Robinson, DO, MS	Clinical Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Increased intracranial pressure, stroke, traumatic brain injury
	Dorian K Rose, PhD	Research Associate Professor	Department of Physical Therapy	Neuroplasticity and motor learning intervention strategies for rehabilitation of post-stroke motor control deficits
	William Roth, MD	Assistant Professor	Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery	Neurocritical care
	Christine Schmidt, PhD	Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Neuroregeneration after peripheral or spinal cord injury
	Alexis Simpkins, MD, PhD, MSCR, FAHA	Assistant Professor	Department of Neurology	Advanced MRI and stroke, blood biomarkers and stroke, protective and preventive measures of cerebrovascular disorders, stroke recovery
	Glenn E Smith PhD, ABPP-CN	Professor and Chair	Department of Clinical and Health Psychology	Detection of neurodegenerative diseases, behavioral interventions to prevent or delay dementia
	Michael "Seth" Smith MD,CAQ-SM, PharmD	Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Medical Director of the High School Outreach Program	Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation	Youth sports injuries, sports-related concussions, exertional heat-related illness
	Aliyah Snyder, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Clinical & Health Psychology	Sports concussion, CTE
	Shahab Vahdat, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Imaging SCI and stroke in human and rodent models
	David Vaillancourt, PhD	Professor & Chair	Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology	Brain regulation of movement with focus on voluntary and involuntary motor disorders
	Kevin K Wang PhD	Research Professor	Department of Emergency Medicine	Tauopathies, cell-based tauopathy models, traumatic brain injury
	Lisa Warren, MHS, OTR/L	Site Manager	UF Health Rehab at Fixel Center for Neurological Diseases	Upper extremity cooling in Parkinson’s disease patients; therapy for Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, dystonia, essential tremor and other neurological disorders
	Lakeisha Williams, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Traumatic brain injury, soft tissue mechanics, bio-inspired design & materials characterization
	John B Williamson, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Clinical and Health Psychology	Interacting effects of neurological injury and chronic stress on the brain
	Christina A Wilson, MD, PhD	Interim Chief, Vascular Neurology Division; Associate Chair Of Education; Neurology Residency Program Director	Department of Neurology	Vascular neurology, acute ischemic stroke, aneurysm, stroke risk factors and prevention
	Adam Woods, PhD	Associate Professor and Assistant Director of the Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory	Department of Clinical and Health Psychology	Cognitive function in aging humans, noninvasive brain stimulation and imaging
	Zhihui Yang, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Department of Emergency Medicine	Tauopathies, traumatic brain injury
	Jason Zaremski, MD	Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Medical Director of the High School Outreach Program	Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation	Sports-related concussions, regenerative therapeutics, throwing-related injuries