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NNS 2008 President

& Symposium Program Chair

AANS/CNS Chairperson

 

Edward D. Hall

EDWARD HALL, PhD

President, National Neurotrauma Society 2008
Director, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Res. Ctr.
Professor, Departments of Anatomy &  Neurobiology, Neurology and Neurosurgery
University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center
B483 Biomedical & Biological Sciences Res. Bldg.
741 S. Limestone Street
Lexington, KY 40536-0509

edhall@uky.edu

 

 

P.DAVID ADELSON, MD

Director, Neurotrauma
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

3705 Fifth Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

david.adelson@chp.edu

 

 INVITED FACULTY SPEAKERS

Bizhan Aarabi, MD

Univ. of Maryland Med. Ctr.
22 S. Greene St. Ste. S12D
Baltimore  MD   21201-1595
baarabi@smail.umaryland.edu

 

Paul Arnold, MD

Kansas University Medical Center

The University of Kansas
Medical Center
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160

parnold@kumc.edu

Hulya Bayir, PhD

Assistant Professor, CCM

University of Pittsburgh

Dept. of Critical Care Medicine

Pittsburgh, PA

bayihx@ccm.upmc.edu

 

M. Ross Bullock, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Lois Pope LIFE Center, Room 3-20
1095 NW 14th Terrace
Miami, FL 33136
rbullock@med.miami.edu

Ibolja Cernak, M.D., M.E., Ph.D.
Medical Director
National Security Technology Department
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Mail Stop MP2-N108
Laurel, MD 20723-6099

Ibolja.Cernak@jhuapl.edu


Robert S. B. Clark, MD

Associate Professor

Dept. of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

clarkrs@ccm.upmc.edu

James Michael Ecklund, M.D., F.A.C.S

Chairman department of Neuroscience

Neuroscience Department

Inova Fairfax Hospital

3300 Gallows Road

Fairfax, VA 22042

james.ecklund@inova.org

Alan I. Faden, MD

Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Pharmacology

Research Bldg. EP-12

Georgetown University Medical Center

3970 Reservoir Rd., N.W.

Washington, D.C., 20057

fadena@georgetown.edu

Michael G. Fehlings, MD PhD FRCSC FACS

Professor of Neurosurgery

Krembil Chair in Neural Repair and Regeneration

McLaughlin Scholar in Molecular Medicine

University of Toronto

Medical Director, Krembil Neuroscience Center

Head, Spine and Spinal Cord Injury Program

Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network

michael.fehlings@uhn.on.ca


Barth Green, MD

Professor and Chairman,

Department of Neurological Surgery

University of Miami School of Medicine

Linda J. Noble-Haeusslein, PhD

Professor and Alvera Kan Endowed Chair
Departments of Neurological Surgery and Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
521 Parnassus Avenue, Room C224
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0520
linda.noble@ucsf.edu

Ramona Hicks, MD

Program Director, Extramural Research Program
NIH/NINDS
Neuroscience Center, Room  2206
6001 Executive Blvd MSC 9525
Bethesda, MD 20892-9525
hicksra@ninds.nih.gov

Charles Hoge, MD

Director, Division of Psychiatry and Neurosciences

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research charles.hoge@na.amedd.army.mil


John D. Houle, Ph.D.

Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy

Drexel University College of Medicine

2900 Queen Lane

Philadelphia, PA  19129

jhoule@drexelmed.edu

David A. Hovda, Ph.D.
Professor
Neurosurgery, Departments of Surgery and of
Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Director, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center
18-228 NPI, Box 957039
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California 90095-7039
dhovda@mednet.ucla.edu

Patrick M. Kochanek, MD
Professor & Vice Chair, Dept of Critical Care Medicine Director,
Safar Center for Resuscitation Research University of Pittsburgh
3434 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
kochanekpm@ccm.upmc.edu

Jeffrey Kocsis, M.D

Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06510

jeffery.kocsis@yale.edu

Brian Kwon, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Career Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia
International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries
D6 Heather Pavilion, Vancouver General Hospital
2733 Heather Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 3J5

CANADA
brian.kwon@vch.ca

Col. Geoffrey S. F. Ling, MD, PhD

Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army
Program Manager, Defense Sciences Office, DARPA

Uniformed Services University

4301 Jones Bridge Rd

Bethesda, MD 20814

GLING@USUHS.MIL

Mark Lovell, Ph.D

lovellmr@upmc.edu

Andrew I.R. Maas, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor & Chairman
Department of Neurosurgery
University Hospital Antwerp
Wilrijkstraat 10
2650 Edegem - Belgium

andrew.maas@uza.be

 

Takeshi Maeda M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Neurological Surgery

Nihon University School of Medicine,

Oyaguchi Kamimachi 30-1

Itabashi-ku Tokyo 173-8610, Japan

maeda.takeshi@nihon-u.ac.jp

Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Neurological Surgery

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

manleyg@neurosurg.ucsf.edu

Mayumi Prins, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Residence
Department of Surgery/Neurosurgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
NPI 18-228, Box 957039
Los Angeles, CA 90095

mprins@mednet.ucla.edu

Ramesh Raghupathi, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dept. Neurobiology and Anatomy

Drexel University College of Medicine
ramesh.raghupathi@drexel.edu

Claudia S. Robertson, MD, FCCM

Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

Baylor College of Medicine

Department of Neurosurgery

1709 Dryden, Suite 750
Houston, TX 77030

claudiar@bcm.tmc.edu

Courtney L. Robertson, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

University of Maryland Medical Center

22. S. Greene St.
Baltimore, MD 21201-1595

croberts@peds.umaryland.edu

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

George M. Smith, PhD

Professor, Department of Physiology

University of Kentucky

Chandler Medical Center
B459 Biomedical & Biological Sciences Research Building
741 S. Limestone Street
Lexington, KY 40536-0509

gmsmith@uky.edu

Michael Sofroniew, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles

Dept. of Neurobiology

Los Angeles, CA

Wolfram Tetzlaff, MD, PhD

Professor
Assoc. Director of ICORD - Discovery Science
(International Collaboration On Repair Discoveries)
Depts. of Zoology & Surgery
Rm. 2469 Biological Sciences Building
University of British Columbia
6270 University Boulevard
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
CANADA

tetzlaff@icord.org


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

Binhai Zheng, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurosciences
Tumor Growth, Invasion & Metastasis Program

University of California, San Diego

San Diego, CA
binhai@ucsd.edu

 

INVITED FACULTY CHAIRS AND CO-CHAIRS

Rocco Armonda, MD

Associate Professor

Department of Surgery

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Bethesda, MD 20889

rarmonda@hotmail.com

Helen Bramlett, PhD

Dept. of Neurological Surgery

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Lois Pope LIFE Center, Room 3-20
1095 NW 14th Terrace
Miami, FL 33136

hbramlett@med.miami.edu

M. Ross Bullock, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Neurosurgery
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Lois Pope LIFE Center, Room 3-20
1095 NW 14th Terrace
Miami, FL 33136
rbullock@med.miami.edu
Dean Chou, M.D.
Associate Director of Spinal Tumor Surgery
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurological Surgery
The UCSF Spine Center
University of California, San Francisco

ChouD@neurosurg.ucsf.edu

Maria Crowe, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Neurosurgery

Department of Neurosurgery
Zablocki VA Medical Center
5000 West National Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53295

mcrowe@mcw.edu

Ying Deng-Bryant, PhD

Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) and

Department of Surgery/Neurosurgery

University of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine

Los Angeles, CA 90095

LAB (310)-825-8646 FAX (310)-794-2147

ybryant@mednet.ucla.edu

Doug DeWitt, MD

Professor

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston, TX

ddewitt@utmb.edu

Dilantha B. Ellegala, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Director, Cerebrovascular Program
Medical University of South Carolina
ellegala@gmail.com

Michael G. Fehlings, MD PhD FRCSC FACS

Professor of Neurosurgery

Krembil Chair in Neural Repair and Regeneration

McLaughlin Scholar in Molecular Medicine

University of Toronto

Medical Director, Krembil Neuroscience Center

Head, Spine and Spinal Cord Injury Program

Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network

michael.fehlings@uhn.on.ca


Candace L. Floyd, PhD

Assistant Professor

Center for Glial Biology in Medicine

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Spain Rehabilitation Center 547

1717 6th Avenue South

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham , AL 35249-7330

clfloyd@uab.edu

 

Christopher Giza, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatric Neurology

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Los Angeles, CA 90095

CGiza@mednet.ucla.edu

James Harrop, M.D.,F.A.C.S.

Jefferson Medical College

Department of Neurosurgery

909 Walnut Street, 2 nd Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19107

james.harrop @ jefferson.edu

Ronald Hayes, PhD

Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Center of Innovative Research
Clinical Programs Director
Chairman, Board of Directors
Banyan Biomarkers, Inc.
12085 Research Dr.
Alachua, FL 32615
rhayes@banyanbio.com

Ramona Hicks, MD

Program Director, Extramural Research Program
NIH/NINDS
Neuroscience Center, Room  2206
6001 Executive Blvd MSC 9525
Bethesda, MD 20892-9525
hicksra@ninds.nih.gov

George Jallo, MD
Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street, Harvey 811
Baltimore, Maryland 21287-8811

gjallo1@jhmi.edu

Patrick M. Kochanek, MD
Professor & Vice Chair, Dept of Critical Care Medicine Director,
Safar Center for Resuscitation Research University of Pittsburgh
3434 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
kochanekpm@ccm.upmc.edu

Brian Kwon, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Career Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia
International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries
D6 Heather Pavilion, Vancouver General Hospital
2733 Heather Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V5Z 3J5

CANADA
brian.kwon@vch.ca

Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD

Assistant Professor
Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center

Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology

University of Kentucky

Chandler Medical Center
B463 Biomedical & Biological Sciences Research Building
741 S. Limestone Street
Lexington, KY 40536-0509

jlifshitz@uky.edu

 

Bruce Lyeth, PhD
Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616

bglyeth@ucdavis.edu

Geoffrey Manley, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Neurological Surgery

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

manleyg@neurosurg.ucsf.edu

John W. McDonald III, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The International Center for Spinal Cord Injury

Kennedy Krieger Institute

707 N. Broadway

Baltimore, MD 21205

mcdonaldj@kennedykrieger.org

Linda J. Noble-Haeusslein, PhD

Professor and Alvera Kan Endowed Chair
Departments of Neurological Surgery and Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
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

Thomas Reeves, MD

Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond,  VA  23298
tmreeves@vcu.edu

 

Photo of Kathryn Saatman, Ph.D.

Kathy Saatman, PhD

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1993
B367 Biomedical & Biological Sciences Research Bldg (BBSRB)
741 S. Limestone St.
Lexington, KY 40536-0509
k.saatman@uky.edu

Diane Snow, PhD

University of Kentucky
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

Lexington, KY
dsnow@uky.edu

Patrick Sullivan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology

Endowed Chair and Associate Director of The Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center (SCoBIRC)

The University of Kentucky Chandler College of Medicine

475 BBSRB

741 South Limestone Street

Lexington, KY 40536-0509

patsull@email.uky.edu

 

Frank Tortella, MD

Chief of the Department of Applied Neurobiology at the Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research and
Brain Trauma and Neuroportection Program Manager for the USAMRMC Combat
Casualty Care Research Program

Frank.Tortella@NA.AMEDD.ARMY.MIL

Jean R. Wrathall, PhD

Professor

Georgetown University Medical Center
Department of Neuroscience
Research Building, Room EP04
Washington, DC 20057

wrathalj@georgetown.edu

 Women in Neurotrauma Research (WINTR) Contact:

 

Christina Marmarou, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical College of Virginia Campus
Department of Neurosurgery
Neurosurgical Research Laboratories
1101 E. Marshal Street, PO Box 980508
9-036 - 9-039  Sanger Hall
Richmond, Virginia  23298-0508
crmarmar@vcu.edu