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NNS 2009 President

& Symposium Program Chair

AANS/CNS Chairperson

 

DAVID HOVDA, PhD

Director, UCLA Brain Injury Research Center

Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and

of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

10833 Le Conte Ave., 18-228 Semel

Box 957039

Los Angeles, California 90095

DHovda@mednet.ucla.edu

 

P.DAVID ADELSON, MD

Director, Phoenix Children's Neuroscience Institute

Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery

1919 E. Thomas Road

Building B, 4th Floor

Phoenix , AZ 85016

dadelson@phoenixchildrens.com

INVITED FACULTY SPEAKERS & CHAIRS

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Richard A. Anderson, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

Vicki Anderson, PhD.

University of Melbourne

Mark Ashley, MD

Centre for NeuroSkills

Ian J Baguley, MBBS PHD FAFRM

University of Sydney

Michael S. Beattie, Ph.D.

Brain and Spinal Injury Center

Carol Braunschweig, MD

University of Illinois

Jacqueline Bresnahan, MD
University of California

David L. Brody, MD PhD

Washington University School of Medicine

Arthur Brown

University of Western Ontario

Ross Bullock, MD, PhD.

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Steven Casha, MD

Foothills Hospital and Medical Centre

Sebastian Cerdan, MD

Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas "Alberto Sols" CSIC/UAM

Pak Chan, PhD

Stanford University SOM

Michael Chopp, PhD

Henry Ford Hospital / Henry Ford Health System

Micky Collins, Ph.D

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

John D. Corrigan, PhD

Ohio State University

Kenneth C. Curley, MD

US Army and Medical Research Materiel Command

Daniel Davis, MD

UCSD Department of Emergency Medicine

Maria Grazia De Simoni, PhD

Mario Negri Institute

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

W. Dalton Dietrich, III, PhD

Scientific Director, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

Rick Dutton, MD, MDA

University of Maryland Medical Center

Reggie Edgerton, MD

UCLA

Martin Fabricius, MD, DMSc.

University of Copenhagen

James Fawcett, PhD

University of Cambridge, Center for Brain Injury

Michael G. Fehlings MD PhD FRCSC FACS

Toronto Neuroscience Program

Anthony Figaji, MD

University of Cape Town

Alisa D. Gean, MD

University of California

Yuri Gerasimenko, MD

Russian Academy of Sciences 

Gerard A. Gioia, PhD

Children's National Medical Center/

George Washington University School of Medicine

Christopher Giza, MD

UCLA

Thomas C. Glenn, Ph.D.

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, Ph.D.

University of California Los Angeles

Ali Gorji, MD

Institute of Neurophysiology

Grace Griesbach, PhD

UCLA

Neil Harris, MD

UCLA

Lars Hillered, MD, PhD

Uppsala University Hospital

Greg Holmes, PhD

Pennington Biomed Research Center

Gillian A. Hotz, PhD

University Of Miami

Claire E. Hulsebosch, PhD

University of Texas

Peter J Hutchinson, MD

University of Cambridge

James Hutchison, MD

The Hospital for Sick Children

Chrysanthy Ikonomidou, MD

University of Wisconsin

Ji-yao Jiang, MD, PhD

Shanghai Jiaotong University

Col.Michael Jaffee, MD, MC, USAF, FS

DVBIC

James P. Kelly, MA, MD, FAAN

University of Colorado Denver

Steven Kernie, MD

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Mary Kerr

National Institutes of Health

Dorothy Kozlowski, PhD

DePaul University

Xavier Leverve, MD

University Joseph-Fourier

Allan D. Levi MD, PhD, FACS

University of Miami-School of Medicine

Lund University Hospital

Stephen Onifer, PhD

University of Kentucky

Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD

University of Kentucky

Andrew Maas, MD

Univ Hospital Antwerp

Takeshi MAEDA, MD, PhD

Nihon University School of Medicine 

Geoffrey Manley, MD

UCSF

Susan Margulies, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

Larry Marshall, MD

UC San Diego Medical Center

Neil A. Martin, MD

Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Rebecca Matsas, PhD

Hellenic Pasteur Institute

Thomas McAllister, MD

Dartmouth Medical School

David K. Menon, MD, PhD

University of Cambridge

Christophe Moinard, MD

University Paris Descartes

Linda J. Noble, PhD

University of California

Carl-Henrik Nordstrom, MD

Jamie E. Pardini, PhD

UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program

John Pickard, MD

University of Cambridge

Nikolaus Plesnila, MD, PhD

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Kees Polderman, MD

Utrecht University Medical Center

Phillip G. Popovich, PhD

Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair (CBSCR)

John T. Povlishock, Ph.D.

Commonwealth Center for the Study of Brain Injury

Mayumi L. Prins, Ph.D.

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Kenneth G. Proctor, Ph.D

University of Miami

GK Prusty, MD, FACS, LLB

The Calcutta Medical Research

Paul Reier, PhD

University of Florida / McKnight Brain Institute

Marco A. Riva, PhD

University of Milan

Claudia Robertson, MD FCCM

Baylor College of Medicine

Asita Sarrafzadeh, MD

Charite Campus Virchow Medical Center

Michal Schwartz, MD
The Weizmann Institute of Science

Sandeep Sharma, PhD

UCLA

Katsuji  Shima, M.D., DM.Sc.

National Defense Medical College

Esther Shohami, PhD
The Hebrew University School of Pharmacy

Annette Sidaros, MD, PhD

Copenhagen University Hospital

Diane Snow, PhD

University of Kentucky Medical Center

Ivan Soltesz, PhD

University of California Irvine

Jean F.Soustiel, MD

Rambam Medical Center

Elizabeth Sowell, MD

UCLA

Ann M. Spungen, EdD

Mount Sinai School of Medicine NY

Anthony J. Strong, DM, FRCSEd

King's College London

Eva Syková, M.D., DSc.

EU Centre of Excellence

Robert C Tasker, MD

University of Cambridge

Charles H. Tator, CM, MD, PhD, FRCSC FACS

University of Toronto

Karen A. Tong, M.D.

Loma Linda University Medical Center

Roland Torres, PhD.

Stanford University

Ignacio Torres-Aleman, MD

Cajal Institute

Roberto Vagnozzi, MD
University of Rome Tor Vergata

Henriette van Praag PhD

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Ingrid Van´t Hooft, PhD

Karolinska Institute

Monica S. Vavilala, MD

University of Washington & Harborview Medical Center

Paul Vespa, MD

UCLA

Kevin Wang

Banyan Biomarkers Inc.

Elisabeth Wilde, PhD.

Baylor College of Medicine

Otto Witte, MD

Friedrich-Schiller University

Jean Wrathall, MD

Georgetown University Medical Center

King H. Yang, MD

Wayne State University

Sue Yudovin

UCLA