Researcher/Clinician Name | Title | Department | Specialties | |
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Michael Jaffee, MD, FAAN, FANA | Chair of Neurology, Professor, and BRAIN Center Director | Department of Neurology | Traumatic brain injury, concussion, sleep disorders | |
Jose Abisambra, PhD | Associate Professor Of Neuroscience And CTRND, Deputy Director of the BRAIN Center, Assistant Dean For Health Care Excellence, Community And Belonging | Department of Neuroscience | Molecular mechanisms linking tau and ER dysfunction with neurodegeneration | |
Pouya A Ameli, MD | Assistant Professor Of Neurology And Neurosurgery, Division Of Neurocritical Care; Faculty Director, Medi-Futures/Medi-Gators Shadowing & Mentorship Programs; Asst Director Neurology Clerkship | Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery | Neurocritical care, genetics of stroke outcome | |
Russell Bauer, PhD, ABPP | Professor Emeritus | Department of Clinical & Health Psychology | Clinical neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury | |
Jennifer Bizon, PhD | Professor & Chair, Neuroscience; Director, Evelyn F. And William F. McKnight Brain Institute | 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 of the MRI and Translational Neurotrauma Rehabilitation Laboratory at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, and Associate Director of the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center | 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 | James E. Rooks, Jr., Professor In Neurology, Professor Of Neurosurgery, Associate Chair of Clinical Operations in Neurology, Chief of the Division 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 | Associate 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 | 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 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 | |
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 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation, post-stroke and brain injury spasticity | |
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 | |
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 | |
Jack Judy, PhD | Professor and Director of the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Neurology | Advanced neural-interface technology and systems, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics | |
Anna Yuzefovich Khanna, MD | Associate Chair Of Regional Systems Integration, Assistant Professor, and Stroke Medical Director | Department of Neurology | Vascular neurology, acute ischemic stroke, aneurysm, stroke risk factors and prevention | |
Alison R. Kraus, PT | Physical Therapist | UF Health Rehab Center at Fixel Center for Neurological Diseases | Traumatic brain injury, ataxia, and other movement disorders including Parkinson’s, Parkinsonisms, dystonia, and essential tremor | |
Gregory J A Murad, MD | Clinical Associate Professor and Residency Program Director | Department of Neurosurgery | Neurosurgery, metastatic brain tumor | |
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 | Associate Professor Of Neurology And Neurosurgery | Department of Neurology | Cognitive function after cardiac arrest/recovery, neurocritical care, traumatic brain injury | |
Rob Maclennan, MD | Postdoctoral Associate | MD- Behavioral Nuerology | Neuromotor control, Kinesiology, Public Health |
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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 | |
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 | |
Teng Peng, MD | Clinical Assistant Professor | Department of Vascular Neurology | Blood pressure management after ICH, stroke outcomes, visual neurorehabilitation, pharmacotherapy for acute stroke |
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Michael A Pizzi, DO, PhD | Associate 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 | |
Torge Rempe, MD | Assistant Professor | Department of Neuro-Multiple Sclerosis | Acute injury, neurotechnology, rehabilitation |
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Brent A Reynolds, PhD | Professor | Department of Neurosurgery | Neural stem cells, development of stem cell-specific assays | |
Christopher Robinson, DO, MS | Associate Professor | Department of Neurology | Increased intracranial pressure, stroke, traumatic brain injury | |
Dorian K Rose, PhD | Professor | Department of Physical Therapy | Neuroplasticity and motor learning intervention strategies for rehabilitation of post-stroke motor control deficits | |
Sumire Sato, PhD | Postdoctoral Associate | Department of Applied Kinesiology and Physiology | Rehabilitation, investigating neural mechanisms, underlying mobility and cognition, aging and disease |
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Christine Schmidt, PhD | Distinguished Professor and J. Crayton Pruitt Family Endowed Chair | 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 |
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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 | |
Aliyah Snyder, PhD | Assistant Professor | Department of Clinical & Health Psychology | Sports concussion, CTE | |
Clayton Swanson, MD | Research Assistant Professor | Department of Behavioral Neurology | Rehabilitation | |
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 | |
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 | Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies | Department of Biomedical Engineering | Traumatic brain injury, soft tissue mechanics, bio-inspired design & materials characterization | |
John B Williamson, PhD | Associate 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 |
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Adam Woods, PhD | Associate Dean for Research; Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory (CAM), and Professor | Department of Clinical and Health Psychology | Cognitive function in aging humans, noninvasive brain stimulation and imaging | |
Zhihui Yang, PhD | Research Assistant Professor and Associate Director of NNBR | Department of Emergency Medicine | Tauopathies, traumatic brain injury | |
Jason Zaremski, MD | Chief Of Sports Medicine Division, 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 |