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Center for Cognitive Neurology Center for Cognitive Neurology Team

Center for Cognitive Neurology Team

Thomas M. Wisniewski, MD

Director, Alzheimer's Disease Center

Karyn D. Marsh, PhD

Managing Associate Director, Center for Cognitive Neurology

Steering Committee

Moses V. Chao, PhD
Scientific Associate Director, Center for Cognitive Neurology and Silberstein Alzheimer’s Institute
Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Psychiatry

Laura J. Balcer, MD
Vice Chair, Department of Neurology
Professor, Departments of Neurology, Ophthalmology, and Population Health

Joshua Chodosh, MD
Director, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care
The Michael L. Freedman Professor of Geriatric Research, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Population Health

Els D. Fieremans, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology

Blas Frangione, MD, PhD
Research Professor, Departments of Pathology and Psychiatry
Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Psychiatry, Department of Pathology

Stephen D. Ginsberg, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology and Psychiatry

Efrat Levy, PhD
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Psychiatry

Paul M. Mathews, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Mary S. Mittelman, DrPH
Research Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Medicine

Margaret E. Rice, PhD
Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology and Neurosurgery

Henry Rusinek, PhD
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology

Yongzhao Shao, PhD
Professor, Department of Population Health

Einar M. Sigurdsson, PhD
Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Physiology and Psychiatry

Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Faculty

Mark A. Bernard, PhD
Instructor, Department of Neurology

Allal Boutajangout, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience and Physiology

Anthony Briggs, PhD
Instructor, Department of Neurology

Arline Faustin, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology

Sunnie Kenowsky, DVM
Clinical Instructor, Department of Neurology

Arjun V. Masurkar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience and Physiology

Evan T. Schulze, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Christopher M. William, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pathology

Center for Cognitive Neurology Faculty

James B. Golomb, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry

Fernando R. Goni, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

Lindsey J. Gurin, MD
Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Rehabilitation Medicine

Meghan E. Lembeck, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Ruth F. McCann, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry

Joanna E. Pankiewicz, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Neurology

Frances Prelli
Research Scientist

Martin Sadowski, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Neurology, and Psychiatry

Joel Salinas, MD, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Henrieta Scholtzova, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

Al Amira Safa Shehab, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Sakina Ouedraogo Tall, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Jack Wei-Lan Tsao, MD, PhD
The Edwin H. Kolodny, MD Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology

Beatrix M. Ueberheide, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Research Staff

Wajiha Ahmed, MD
Associate Research Scientist

Haiyun Chen, MS
Programmer

William Cullina
Research Associate

Natasha De La Cruz
Program Coordinator

Ludovic Debure
Senior Research Technician

Emilie Geesey
Research Coordinator

Sohail Karimi
Research Data Associate

Suleiman Khan
Research Technician

Ewelina Lechowicz
Predoctoral Fellow

Dominique Frances Leitner, PhD
Senior Research Scientist

Jon Links
Research Coordinator

Anita Malgorzata Lizinczyk
Associate Research Scientist

Mitchell Martá-Ariza
Assistant Research Scientist

Brittany Marti
Research Coordinator

Akash Patel, MS
Associate Research Scientist

Violeta Pellicer Morata, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Isabel Reyes
Research Technician

Apolline Savarit, MS
Assistant Research Scientist

Spencer Steigman
Senior Research Technician

Jianina Suazo
Assistant Research Technician

Jakub Szabo
Predoctoral Fellow

Mohankumar Thangavel, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Manon Thierry, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Chengju Tian, PhD
Research Scientist

Wai Hon Tsui, PhD
Research Scientist

Brianna Vega
Student Intern

Ding Wang
Research Scientist

Jennifer Wong
Associate Research Coordinator

Anaztasia Ulysse
Program Manager

Collaborators

Yulin Ge, MD
Professor, Department of Radiology

Alan Kluger, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Helen E. Scharfman, PhD
Professor, Departments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Psychiatry

David Zagzag, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Pathology

Youssef Zaim, Wadghiri, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology

Clinical Staff

Ursula Auclair, LCSW
Senior Social Worker

Anthony Buonomo, LCSW
Social Worker

Martina Colon
FGP Administrative Operations Lead

Tatianne Martinez, NP
Nurse Practitioner

Emily Petrocca, NP
Nurse Practitioner

Imaris Santiago
Senior Medical Assistant

Gladys Talatala
FGP Secretary Intake/Scheduler

Center for Cognitive Neurology Management and Administrative Staff

Alok Vedvyas, MS, MSJ
Director, IT Network Systems

Michele Barry, MS
Assistant Program Director

Janika Pannell
FGP Office Manager Patient Care Coordinator, Pearl I. Barlow Center for Memory Evaluation and Treatment

Louisa Bokacheva, PhD
Program Manager

Zena Rockowitz, MSW, MPA
Program Supervisor

Gaurav Vedvyas, MS
Senior Bioinformatics Programmer

Randy Douglas
Program Assistant