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 NNS President & 2007 Symposium Program Chair


 

BRUCE G. LYETH, PhD

President, National Neurotrauma Society 2007
Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
for courier services (e.g., FedEx,UPS)
1515 Newton Court, room 502-A
Davis, CA 95616

 Invited Faculty Speakers

MARY KAY BADER, RN, MSN, CCNS

Neuro/Critical Care CNS

Mission Hospital

 

MEHMET BILGEN, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dept. Integrative and Molecular Phsyiology
Hoglund Brain Imaging Center

Mail Stop 1052
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City , KS 66160

mbilgen@kumc.edu

M. ROSS BULLOCK, MD, PhD

Medical College of Virginia
Department of Neurosurgery
P.O. Box 980631
Richmond, VA 23298

mbullock@mcvh-vcu.edu

ERIC CROWN, PhD

Senior Research Biologist

Merck Research Laboratories

Pain Research

770 Sumneytown Pike

P.O. Box 4

WP46-300

West Point, PA 19486

eric_crown@merck.com

 

BRUCE DOBKIN, MD

Prof, Dir Rehab

UCLA Neuro-Serv
BOX 951769, Rm 1-129 RNRC
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769

bdobkin@mednet.ucla.edu.com

RUTLEDGE ELLIS-BEHNKE, PhD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
46-6007
43 Vassar Str.
Cambridge, MA 02139

rutledg@MIT.EDU

JEREMY EMKEN, PhD

California Institute of Technology
Division of Biology,MC 216-76
Pasadena, CA 91125

emken@caltech.edu

MICHAEL FEHLINGS, MD, PhD

Senior Scientist
Division of Cellular & Molecular Biology
Toronto Western Research Institute (TWRI)

Toronto Western Hospital
McLaughlin Pavillion
12th floor Rm.407
399 Bathurst St.

Toronto, Ontario  

Canada M5T 2S8

Michael.Fehlings@uhn.on.ca

 

JULIO FURLAN, MD, PhD

Krembil Neuroscience Program

Tronto Western Hospital Research Institue

ON - Toronto

jfurlan@uhnres.utoronto.ca

THOMAS GENNARELLI, MD

Neurosurgery Chair

Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226

tgenn@mcw.edu

 

LARRY B. GOLDSTEIN, MD, FAAN, FAHA
Professor of Medicine (Neurology)
Director, Duke Center for Cerebrovascular Disease
Senior Fellow, Center for Clinical Health Policy Research
Box 3651- Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710

golds004@mc.duke.edu

LEIF A. HAVTON, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Neuroscience Research Building 1
635 Charles E. Young Drive South
Los Angeles, CA 90095
LHavton@mednet.ucla.edu

THERESA D. HERNANDEZ, PhD

Associate Professor

Dept. of Psychology & The Center for Neuroscience

University of Colorado

Boulder , CO 80309

Theresa.Hernandez@colorado.edu

 

TERESA HILLS, RN, MSN, ACNP

Neurosurgery/Neurotrauma NP

Christiana Medical Center

 

LARS HILLERED, MD, PhD
Professor
Dept Neuroscience, Neurosurgery
Uppsala University Hospital
SE-751 85 Uppsala
SWEDEN

lars.hillered@neurokir.uu.se

BILLIE JEAN HUSKEY, MPT

Marymount University, Arlington, VA
Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA.
225 Penny Lane
Pembroke, VA 24136
billiejeanhuskey@yahoo.com

 

AMIE JACKSON, MD

Professor and Chairman

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

University of Alabama , Birmingham

School of Medicine

1530 3rd Avenue South, FOT 1203
BIRMINGHAM AL 35294-3412
jacksona@uab.edu

 

THERESA JONES, PhD

Associate Professor

The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Psychology
1 University Station A8000
Austin, Texas 78712-0187

Office: SEA 5.248 Lab: ARC 3.120

tj@psy.utexas.edu

 

HARVEY S. LEVIN, PhD

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
6560 Fannin, Suite #1144
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 713-798-7566
Fax: 713-798-6898
hlevin@bcm.edu

hlevin@bcm.tmc.edu

DAVID MENON, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCA, FMedSci

Professor of Anaesthesia

Division of Anaesthesia
University of Cambridge
Box 93, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 2QQ

dkm13@wbic.cam.ac.uk

 

PRATIK MUKHERJEE, MD, PhD

University of California, San Francisco
Department of Radiology
505 Parnassus Avenue
Box 0628
San Francisco, CA 94143-0628

pratik@radiology.ucsf.edu

 

KRISTINE O'PHELAN, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Hawaii
John A. Burns School of Medicine
Neuroscience Institute
The Queens Medical Center
1301 Punchbowl Street
Honolulu, HI 96813

kophelan@queens.org

 

ELIZABETH SEISLOVE, RN, MSN

Trauma Program Manager

Lehigh Valley Hospital

 

DOUGLAS H. SMITH, MD

University of Pennsylvania
Department of Neurological Surgery
105 Hayden Hall, 3320 Smith Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316

smithdou@mail.med.upenn.edu

JAMES SURMEIER, PhD

Nathan Smith Davis Professor and Chair

Northwestern University
The Feinberg School of Medicine
Department of Physiology M211 Ward 5-315
303 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

j-surmeier@northwestern.edu

PAUL VESPA, MD

Associate Professor

Neurosurgery and Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
18-218 CHS, Mail Code 909713
Los Angeles, CA 90095

pvespa@mednet.ucla.edu


ROSS ZAFONTE, DO

Chair

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R)

University of Pittsburgh Medical School

Pittsburgh, PA

zafonterd@upmc.edu

 

 Invited Faculty Chairs and Co-Chairs

 

HELEN BRAMLETT, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Department of Neurological Surgery
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
1095 NW 14th Terrace
LPLC 3-18
Miami, Florida 33136 USA

hbramlett@miami.edu

WILLIAM BROOKS, PhD

Director of the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center

Mail Stop 1052
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160

wbrooks@kumc.edu

 

PRAMOD DASH, PhD

Professor
Director of Research

The Vivian L. Smith Center for Neurologic Research

Telephone: 713.500.5625
p.dash@uth.tmc.edu

CANDACE FLOYD, PhD

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

547 Spain Rehabilitation Center

1717 6th Avenue South

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham , AL 35249-7330

clfloyd@uab.edu

DAVID A. HOVDA, PhD

Professor

Neurosurgery, Dept. of Surgery & of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

Director, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center

18-228 NPI

Box 957039

UCLA School of Medicine

Los Angeles, CA 90095-7039

dhovda@mednet.ucla.edu

 

CLAIRE HULSEBOSCH, PhD

University of Texas Medical Branch
Anatomy and Neurosciences
301 University Boulevard, Rt. 1043
Galveston, Texas 77555-1043

cehulseb@utmb.edu

 

PATRICK M. KOCHANEK, MD

Professor

Critical Care Medicine

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh , PA 15213

kochanekpm@ccm.upmc.edu

LINDA J. NOBLE, Ph.D.
Professor, Neurological Surgery
521 Parnassus Avenue, Room C224
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0520

linda.noble@ucsf.edu

DAVID OKONKWO, MD, PhD

University of Pittsburgh

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Clinical Director, Brain Trauma Research Center

200 Lothrop Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

okonkwodo@upmc.edu

PHILLIP POPOVICH , PhD - ABSTRACT CHAIR

The Ohio State University
Department of Molecular, Virology,
Immunology and Medical Genetics
2078 Graves Hall, 333 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

popovich.2@osu.edu

ALEXANDER G. RABCHEVSKY, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physiology
University of Kentucky
Spinal Cord & Brain Injury
Research Center (SCoBIRC)
B371, Biomedical & Biological
Sciences Research Building
741 South Limestone Street
Lexington, KY 40536-0509
agrab@email.uky.edu


RAMESH RAGHUPATHI, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. Neurobiology and Anatomy

Drexel University College of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA 19104

rramesh@drexelmed.edu

KATHRYN SAATMAN, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky

B367 Biomedical & Biological Sciences Research Bldg (BBSRB)
741 S. Limestone St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0509

k.saatman@uky.edu

CARY R. SAVAGE, PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry

Director, Functional MRI, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center

HILAIRE THOMPSON, PhD, RN, BC, ACNP, CNRN
Assistant Professor
Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
357266
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

hilairet@u.washington.edu

AMY WAGNER, MD

University of Pittsburgh

Physical Med. & Rehabilitation

Lillian Kaufmann Bldg., Ste. 201

3471 Fifth Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA

wagnerak@upmc.edu

DEBORAH WATSON, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
371 Stemmler Hall
36th & Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
djw3@mail.med.upenn.edu

 Women in Neurotrauma Research (WINTR) Contact:

 

DIANE M. SNOW, PhD

University of Kentucky Medical Center
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
800 Rose Street (MN212)
Lexington, KY 40536-0298

dsnow@uky.edu