Center for Cognitive Neurology Team
Thomas M. Wisniewski, MD
Karyn D. Marsh, PhD
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