ARASH AFSHINNIK, M.D.
Advanced training: St. George’s University SOM, Grenada, West Indies; University of Nevada Reno SOM; University of Chicago - Pritzker SOM
Research and specialty interests: Neurointensive care
PRATIBHA AIA, M.D.
Advanced training: Goa University, India; University of Minnesota; University of Arkansas Medical Sciences; Emory University SOM
Research and specialty interests: Movement disorders, DBS programming
GARRETT E. ALEXANDER, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of California, Los Angeles; National Institutes of Health; Johns Hopkins University
Research and specialty interests: neurophysiology of central motor structures; motor psychophysics; movement disorders; computational models of mammalian motor systems
ANGELA V. ASHLEY, M.D.
Advanced training: Mercer University; Georgia Baptist Hospital; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: memory disorders
GARY BASSELL, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
MICHAEL BENATAR, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Cape Town, South Africa; Oxford University, U.K.
Research interests: The use of Bayesian statistics in the electrodiagnosis of neuromuscular disease, clinical outcome and treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy, and the prevention and treatment of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
RANJITA BETARBET, Ph.D.
Advanced training: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India; University of Pittsburgh; and Cambridge University, U.K.
Research interests: Parkinson's Disease; glutamate and dopamine receptor distribution in the basal ganglia; mitochondrial dysfunction and neurodegenerative diseases; functional anatomy of the basal ganglia
VALERIE BIOUSSE, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris: Emory Univeristy
Research interests: vascular diseases of the eye; cervical artery dissection; cerebral sinus thrombosis
DONALD L. BLIWISE, Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Chicago; Stanford University
Research and specialty interests: sleep in normal aging and dementia; behavioral consequences of sleep apnea; movement during sleep in degenerative neurologic conditions
NICHOLAS BOULIS, M.D., Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
BEAU BRUCE, M.D.
Joint Faculty
ELIZABETH BUFFALO, Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of California, San Diego, CA
Research and specialty interests: new therapies aimed at reducing or preventing memory loss that results from medial temporal lobe disease through understanding of the neuronal mechanisms involved in the establishment and maintenance of memory
BRIAN CILIAX, Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Michigan; National Institutes of Health
Research interests: Tourette's Syndrome; neuropharmacology and functional anatomy of the basal ganglia; monoamine transporter and receptor function/regulation; gonadal steroid influences on monoamine systems
LESLIE CLOUD, M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University
Research and specialty interests: gastrointestinal dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease
MAHLON R. DE LONG, M.D.
Timmie Professor
Advanced training: Harvard University; Boston City Hospital; National Institutes of Health; Johns Hopkins University
Research and specialty interests: pathophysiology and surgical treatment of movement disorders; anatomy and physiology of the basal ganglia
DANIEL DRANE, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Medical College of Georgia; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena CA
Research and specialty interests: semantic memory, object recognition, and aspects of language functioning; chronic epilepsy; clinical neuropsychology
CHARLES M. EPSTEIN, M.D.
Advanced training: Harvard University; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: power spectral EEG; evoked potentials; EEG field theory; magnetic brain stimulation
CHRISTINE ESPER, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Illinois, Chicago
Research and specialty interests: deep brain stimulation surgery
GREGORY ESPER, M.D.
Advanced training: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Research and specialty interests: eletrical impendance myography and neuromusclar disease
MARIAN EVATT, M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University, Duke University
Research and specialty interests: movement disorders; dystonia; Parkinson's Disease
STEWART A. FACTOR, D.O.
Advanced training: Movement disorders University of Miami
Research and specialty interests: Experimental therapeutics in Movement Disorders, Genetics/Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease.
MICHAEL R. FRANKEL, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Louisville; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: experimental therapeutics in acute stroke
ALAN FREEMAN, M.D.
Advanced Training: Movement Disorders at Emory University
Research Interests: Parkinson's Disease, Dystonia, Therapeutic Trials
JASON FRITZ, Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: Cognitive disorders research
ADRIANA GALVAN, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Universidad Anáhuac, Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados del IPN
Research and specialty interests: GABAergic transmission, physiology and anatomy of the basal ganglia, Parkinson's Disease
MARLA GEARING, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
THOMAS GENETTA, Ph.D.
Advanced training: New York University
Research and specialty interests: pediatric neurology; cortical neurons
JANE L. GILMORE, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Michigan
Research and specialty interests: general in-patient neurology
JONATHAN D. GLASS, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Vermont; Johns Hopkins University
Research and specialty interests: mechanisms of axonal degeneration; pathophysiology of peripheral neuropathy; HIV-related neurological disorders
FELICIA GOLDSTEIN, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Emory University; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Research and specialty interests: neurobehavioral outcomes after traumatic brain injury; cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's Disease; dementia in African Americans
MELANIE GREENAWAY, Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Mayo Clinic
Research interests: Mild Cognitive Impairement and Dementia
JAMES G. GREENE, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Rochester, Emory University
Research interests: mechanisms of neurodegeneration, selective neuronal
vulnerability, experimental therapeutics of movement disorders
ROBERT GROSS, M.D., Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
CHAD HALES, MD. Ph.D.
Advanced training: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; Emory University SOMResearch and specialty interests: Cognitive disorders
TAYLOR HARRISON, M.D.
Advanced training: Princeton University, University of Louisville
Research and specialty Interests: clinical research relating to the neurological sequelae of HIV infection and disorders of peripheral nerve hyperexcitability
SANDRA HELMERS, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Cincinnati; Mayo Clinic; Massachusetts General Hospital
Research and specialty interests: epilepsy with special interests in pediatric and elderly populations; vagus nerve stimulation; pharmacologic and surgical treatment of epilepsy
ELLEN HESS, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
PHILIP HOLT, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: University of Alabama; Maine Medical Center; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: epilepsy
LINTON C. HOPKINS, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Virginia; University of Rochester; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy; myasthenia gravis; demyelinating neuropathy; ALS
SCOTT HWANG, MD, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
ANNA JANSS, M.D., Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
XIAOTAO JIN, M.D. Ph.D
Advanced training: Yale University; The Burnham Research Institute, San Diego CA; Boston College, MA
Research and specialty interests: basal ganglia research in Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases
HYDER (BUZ) JINNAH, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training:
Johns Hopkins University; University of California, San Diego
Research and specialty interests:
disorders of voluntary movements; dystonia; Lesch-Nyhan disease
SARAH JONES, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Georgia State University
Research interests: Huntington's Disease: clinical and observational trials
JORGE L. JUNCOS, M.D.
Advanced training: Columbia University; Harvard University; National Institutes of Health; Hôpital de La Salpêtrière, Paris
Research and specialty interests: experimental therapeutics of Parkinson's Disease; Tourette's syndrome and other movement disorders
GLENDA KEATING, Ph.D.
Advanced Training: University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK; Emory University
Research interests: Brainstem neuroanatomy; dopamine regulation of state control; behavioral correlates of sleep disruption
VITA KESNER, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: Emory University; University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH; Donetsk Medical University, Ukraine
Research and specialty interests: peripheral nerve hyprexcitability in RLS patients; electrophysiology/neuromuscular disease; clinical neurophysiology
JAFFAR KHAN, M.D.
Advanced training: Louisiana State University; University of Iowa; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: electromyography; electroencephalography; epilepsy; neuromuscular diseases
ARCHANA. KOGANTI, M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University
Research and specialty interests: general epilepsy and sleep disorders; surgically treatable epilepsies; vagus nerve stimulation
NICOLAS KRAWIECKI, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: Faculté de Medecine, Lyon; Case Western Reserve University
Research and specialty interests: mitochondrial disorders
SIMON LACEY, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Southampton Solent University, England
Research and specialty interests: Neuro Rehabilitation research
JAMES LAH, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: Ohio State; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders; cellular and molecular biology of presenilins, amyloid processing, and BACE
SUZETTE LAROCHE , M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University
Research and specialty interest: pharmacological and surgical treatment of epilepsy, diagnosis and management of status epilepticus including the use of continuous electroencephalaography in the intensive care unit
NEIL LAVA, M.D.
Advanced training:
University of Colorado, Denver; Albany Medical Center, NY; New Jersey College of Medicine
Research and specialty interests:
Multiple Sclerosis; Muscular Dystrophy; neuromuscular disease
ALLAN I. LEVEY, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Advanced training: University of Chicago; Johns Hopkins University; National Institutes of Health
Research and specialty interests: clinical studies of memory disorders; research studies of gene families that encode neurotransmitter receptors for acetylcholine, dopamine, and glutamate
DAVID LORING, Ph.D.
Advanced training:
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX; University of Houston TX
Research and specialty interests:
Clinical Neuropsychology; neurobehavioral assessment methods
HELEN MAYBERG, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: Columbia University, John Hopkins University
Research interests: neuropsychiatry; functional
neuroimaging; pathophysiology of affective disorders, cognitive, pharmacological and surgical treatments of depression.
KIMFORD MEADOR, M.D.
Advanced training:
University of Florida; Medical College of Georgia
Research and specialty interests:
neuropsychological effects of epilepsy; physiology of cognitive mechanisms
CAROLYN MELTZER, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
KLAUS MEWES, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Friedrich Alexander University, Germany; University of Kansas
Research interests: motor system physiology in human and non-human primates; cortical control of neural prosthetic devices; development of technology used in the treatment of movement disorders
GARY MILLER, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
MARK MULLINS, M.D., Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
FADI NAHAB, M.D.
Advanced training:
Emory University; University of California; Loma Linda University
Research and specialty interests:
vascular neurology; ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke
NANCY J. NEWMAN, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: Harvard University; Massachusetts General Hospital; Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Research and specialty interests: neuro-ophthalmology; mitochondrial diseases
LARRY OLSON, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: University of South Dakota; Michigan State University; Boston University Hospital; University of Virginia
Research and specialty interests: epilepsy
SEIJI ONO, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Emory University; Tokyo Medical University, Japan
Research and specialty interests: sensory-motor systems, Yerkes National Primate Research Center
SUSAN PALAC, M.D.
Advanced training:
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Rush Medical College, Chicago
Research and specialty interests:
Epileptologist; clinical neurophysiology; epilepsy surgery
STELLA PAPA, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Buenos Aires; University of Navarra, Spain; National Institutes of Health
Research interests: Parkinson's Disease and other movement disorders; human motor control; excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters; experimental therapeutics of neurodegenerative diseases
SHARON HARTMAN POLENSEK, M.D.,Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Michigan; Baylor University; Emory University
Research interests: dizziness and balance disorders
GONZALO REVUELTA, D.O.
Advanced training:
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA; University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford NJ
Research and specialty interests:
movement disorders
DAVID B. RYE, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Chicago
Research and specialty interests: Understanding the functional anatomy/physiology of brain systems and molecular biology of Restless Legs Syndrome and sleep homeostatic mechanisms.
JEFFREY RUMBAUGH, MD, Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Rochester, NY; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Research and specialty interests: Multiple Sclerosis and related neuro-immunological and neuro-infectious diseases
SUSAN SAMUEL, M.D.
Advanced training:
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago IL; Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia PA
Research and specialty interests:
neuro intensive care
OWEN SAMUELS, M.D.
Joint Faculty
SUBHABRATA SANYAL, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
KRISH SATHIAN, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: Christian Medical College, Vellore, India; University of Melbourne, Australia; University of Chicago
Research and specialty interests: neurological rehabilitation; cognitive neuroscience; neural plasticity; attention and perception
RONALD SCHUCHARD, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Johns Hopkins University; University of Chicago
Research and specialty interests: ophthalmology, rehabilitative medicine
JAMES SEJVAR, M.D.
Advanced training:
CDC, Atlanta GA; Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN; Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover NH
Research and specialty interests:
neuroepidemiologist; neurologic infectious diseases; public health service
JOHN SLADKY, M.D.
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: Yale University; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania
Research and specialty interests: neuromuscular disorders
YOLAND SMITH, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Leval University, Quebec, Canada; Oxford University, U.K.; Johns Hopkins University
Research interests: functional anatomy of the basal ganglia; Parkinson's Disease; Huntington's Disease; glutamate and GABA synaptic transmission; cocaine addiction
DONALD STEIN, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty
KEITH E. TANSEY, MD, PhD
Advanced training: Washington University, St. Louis; University of California, Los Angeles
Research and specialty interests: neural plasticity and repair; neurorehabilitation; spinal cord injury; spinal cord neurophysiology
CLAUDIA TESTA, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Michigan, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital
Research interests: functional anatomy of the basal ganglia; pathophysiology and treatment of Huntington's and Parkinson's Disease; experimental therapeutics
LYNN MARIE TROTTI, M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University
Research and specialty interests: sleep disorders
LARRY TUNE, M.D.
Joint Faculty
RONALD J. TUSA, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: Johns Hopkins University
Research and specialty interests: dizziness and balance disorders; eye movement disorders; neural development of gaze-holding oculomotor systems
WILLIAM TYOR, M.D.
Advanced training:
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore MD; Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC
Research and specialty interests:
viral encephalitis; multiple sclerosis; microbiology and immunology
LARY WALKER, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Emory University, Johns Hopkins University
Research and specialty interests: Alzheimer's disease and associated proteopathies, Neurobiology of aging, animal models of neurodegenerative diseases
ADAM WEBB M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University
Research and specialty interests: ischemic stroke
BARBARA WEISSMAN, M.D
Joint Faculty
Advanced training: Case Western Reserve University
Research and specialty interests: head injury and rehabilitation
THOMAS WICHMANN, M.D.
Advanced training: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Heidelberg University; Johns Hopkins University; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: physiology of the basal ganglia; pathophysiology of movement disorders; pharmacologic and surgical treatments of movement disorders
GEORGE R. WILMOT, M.D., Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Michigan; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: ataxic disorders; neurogenetics; mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases; trinucleotide repeat disorders
THOMAS WINGO, M.D.
Advanced training:
Emory University
Research and specialty interests:
neurodegenerative diseases; dementia
WENDY WRIGHT, M.D.
Advanced training: Texas Christian University, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Research and specialty interests: cerebrovascular disease, seizures, and management of medical complications in the ICU
JOANNE WUU, ScM
Advanced training: Harvard School of Public Health
Research and speciality interests: the application of statistical principles and methods in neurology/neuroscience research, including clinical, basic science, and epidemiological research projects
MANUEL YEPES, M.D.
Advanced training: Javeriana University, Colombia; Georgeotwn University, Washington Clinic interests: cerebrovascular disease, diagnosis and treatment of acute ischemic stroke.
Research interest: disruption of the architecture of the neurovascular unit, cerebral edema, neuroinflammation and cell death during cerebral ischemia.
JAMES ZHENG, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty