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.
AARON ANDERSON, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research and specialty interests: Vascular Nerology, Stroke
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 with Cell Biology Department
Advanced training: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Research and specialty interests: Research in cell biology – MRNA regulation
SAMIR BELAGAJE, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Cincinnati, OH
Research and specialty interests: Vascular Neurology, Stroke Rehabilitation.
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 with Ophthalmology Department
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 with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: Yale University, Harvard University
Research and specialty interests: Biological Neurorestoration and Neuromodulation
BEAU BRUCE, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Ophthalmology Department
Advanced training: Emory University, Harvard University
Research and specialty interests: Neuro-ophthalmology
CATHRIN BUETEFISCH, M.D.,Ph.D.
Advanced training: West Virginia University, Morgantown; National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD; Heinrich-Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany
Research and specialty interests: Stroke, Rehabilitation, DBS programming
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
NANCY COLLOP, M.D
Joint Faculty with Medicine Department
Advanced training: Penn State University College of Medicine, Medical College of Virginia, University of Florida-Gainesville
Research and specialty interests: Sleep Medicine/Disorders
MAHLON R. DE LONG, M.D.
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
ADAM EDWARDS, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training:New York Medical College, Emory University
Research and specialty interests: Neurocritical Care, Vascular Neurology
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.
EDWARD FAUGHT, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Virginia SOM, Charlottesville, VA
Research and specialty interests: Epilepsy, ICU EEG services, Neurophysiology; clinical pharmacology and clinical trials of antiepileptic drugs, pharmacokinetics, and side effects of drugs; epidemiology of epilepsy in elderly and disadvantaged populations and quality of care
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 with Pathology Department
Advanced training: Cornell University, Emory University, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research and specialty interests: Overlap among neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases
EVAN GEDZELMAN, M.D.
Advanced training: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research and specialty interests: Epilepsy, EEG services
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 Impairment 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 with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; Yale University
Research and specialty interests: Neurosurgery – Epilepsy and Movement Disorders
RISHI GUPTA, M.D.
Advanced training: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA
Research and specialty interests: Interventional Neuro-Angiography and Endovascular therapy, Stroke
CHAD HALES, MD. Ph.D.
Advanced training: Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA; Emory University
Research and specialty interests: Cognitive disorders
CASEY HALL, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: University of Minnesota, Emory University
Research and specialty interests: Neurocritical Care, Acute Stroke
BRENDA HANNA-PLADDY, Ph.D.
Advanced training: Louisiana State University, University of Florida
Research and specialty interests: Neuropsychology/Parkinson’s disease research
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 with Pharmacology Department
Advanced training: University of California, San Diego
Research and specialty interests: Movement Disorders, Dystonia
PHILIP HOLT, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Pediatrics
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
CHRISTOPHER HORN, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: Case Western Reserve University
Research and specialty interests: Neurocritical Care
WILLIAM HU, M.D. Ph.D
Advanced training: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Research and specialty interests: Cognitive Neurology, Alzheimer’s disease, Neurodegenerative disease, Frontotemporal dementia; biomarkers research
DANIEL HUDDLESON, M.D.
Advanced training: Neurological Institute of NY, Columbia University Medical Center
Research and specialty interests: Movement Disorders, DBS programming
SCOTT HWANG, MD, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Radiology Department
Advanced training: Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, NY University School of Medicine
Research and specialty interests: Neuroradiology
ANNA JANSS, M.D., Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Pediatrics Department
Advanced training: University of Iowa
Research and specialty interests: Neuro-oncology, Brain Tumors
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
PREM KANDIAH, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Pittsburgh
Research and specialty interests: Neurocritical Care
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
EDGAR J. KENTON, III, M.D., FAAN, FAHA
Advanced training: Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Research and specialty interests: General Neurology, Stroke
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
NICOLAS KRAWIECKI, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Pediatrics Department
Advanced training: Faculté de Medecine, Lyon; Case Western Reserve University
Research and specialty interests: mitochondrial disorders
THOMAS KUKAR, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Pharmacology Department
Advanced training: University of Florida, Gainesville; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Research and specialty interests: Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease and other Neurologic 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
BETH LEEMAN, M.D
Advanced training: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Research and specialty interests: Epilepsy, EEG services
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
ZIXU MAO, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Pharmacology Department
Advanced training: Duke University, NC; Harvard University
Research and specialty interests: Research on neurotoxins and neurodegenerative diseases
HELEN MAYBERG, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Psychiatry Department
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 with Radiology Department
Advanced training: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Research and specialty interests: Neuroradiology, PET Imaging
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 with Environmental and Occupational Health Department
Advanced training: University of Georgia, Athens; Emory University; Duke University, NC
Research and specialty interests: Neurodegenerative Disease research, immunology
MARK MULLINS, M.D., Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Radiology Department
Advanced training: Harvard University
Research and specialty interests: Head, neck, spine imaging
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 with Ophthalmology Department
Advanced training: Harvard University; Massachusetts General Hospital; Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Research and specialty interests: neuro-ophthalmology; mitochondrial diseases
RAUL NOGUEIRA, M.D.
Advanced training: Massachusetts General Hospital
Research and specialty interests:Neuro-endovascular services, Stroke; acute ischemic stroke interventional therapy, interventional management of stroke trial research
LARRY OLSON, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Pediatrics Department
Advanced training: University of South Dakota; Michigan State University; Boston University Hospital; University of Virginia
Research and specialty interests: epilepsy
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
VISHAL PATEL, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: South Illinois University, Tufts Medical Center, Case Western Reserve
Research and specialty interests: Neurocritical Care
SHARON HARTMAN POLENSEK, M.D.,Ph.D.
Advanced training: University of Michigan; Baylor University; Emory University
Research interests: dizziness and balance disorders
BRYAN RIGGEAL, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Ophthalmology Department
Advanced training: University of Florida
Research and specialty interests: Neuro-ophthalmology
LESLIE RUDZINSKI, MD.
Advanced training: Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
Research and specialty interests: Clinical Neurophysiology & Epilepsy, EEG services
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
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.
REHAN SAJJAD, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training:State University of New York, Medical College of Wisconsin, Emory University
Research and specialty interests: Neurocritical Care
OWEN SAMUELS, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: State University of NY; University of Rochester, NY; Emory University; University of Pennsylvania
Research and specialty interests: Neurointensivist, Stroke
SUBHABRATA SANYAL, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Cell Biology Department
Advanced training: University of Arizona
Research and specialty interests: Molecular Neurobiology
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
NICHOLAS SEYFRIED, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Biochemistry Department
Advanced training: University of Oxford-United Kingdom, Emory University, University of Georgia
Research and specialty interests: Mass spectrometry proteomics researching neurodegenerative disease
ANGELICA SILVA, M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University
Research and specialty interests: EEG/Neurophysiology/General Neurology
MICHAEL SILVER, M.D.
Advanced training: Medical College of Georgia, Thomas Jefferson University
Research and specialty interests: Movement Disorders/Parkinson’s Disease
JOHN SLADKY, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Pediatrics Department
Advanced training: Yale University; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania
Research and specialty interests: neuromuscular disorders
PATRICE SMITH, Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Physiology Department
Advanced training: University of Ottawa-Canada, Harvard University
Research and specialty interests: Molecular regeneration in the brain
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 with Emergency Medicine Department
Advanced training: University of Oregon; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France
Research and specialty interests: Neuro-psychology, Brain Injury Recovery
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
TOMMY THOMAS, M.D., Ph.D.
Joint Faculty with Neurosurgery Department
Advanced training: University of Alabama-Birmingham, Massachusetts General Hospital
Research and specialty interests: Neurocritical Care
LYNN MARIE TROTTI, M.D.
Advanced training: Emory University
Research and specialty interests: sleep disorders
LARRY TUNE, M.D.
Joint Faculty with Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Department
Advanced training: University of Virginia; Johns Hopkins University
Research and specialty interests: Pharmacologic treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and Geriatric psychoses
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
NAYMEE VELEZ-RUIZ, MD.
Advanced training: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Boston University, Harvard University
Research and specialty interests: Neurohospitalist/Epilepsy
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 with Pediatrics Department
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
RAYMON WILENSKY, MD.
Advanced training: University of Alabama-Birmingham
Research and specialty interests: Neurohospitalist/Electromyography and Neuromuscular disease
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
MANUEL YEPES, M.D.
Advanced training: Javeriana University, Colombia; Georgetown 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 with Cell Biology Department
Advanced training: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Columbia University, NY
Research and specialty interests: Research of regeneration and repair of damaged neuronal circuitry after brain injury.