MCW Neuroscience Research Center Faculty

John Elliott Conto, OD, Dipl. AAO

Associate Professor

William Gross, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Keri Hainsworth, PhD

Associate Professor

Quinn Hogan, MD

Professor

Christopher Roberts, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Seung Min Shin, PhD

Assistant Professor

David Stowe, MD, PhD

Professor

Astrid Stucke, MD

Professor

Steven J. Weisman, MD

Professor

Hongwei Yu, MD

Professor

Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD

Associate Professor, Biochemistry; Secondary Faculty in Neurosurgery and Obstetrics & Gynecology

Adam Greenberg, PhD

Associate Dean of Postdoctoral Education, School of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Director of the Sensory Neuroscience, Attention, and Perception Laboratory

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Jim Hokanson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

Frank A. Pintar, PhD

Founding Chair, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Neurosurgery

Jordan Williams, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering; Neurosurgery

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Francesca M. Marassi, PhD

Professor, Chair, and Eminent Scholar; Associate Director, MCW Cancer Center Shared Resources

Jacek Zielonka, PhD, DSc

Assistant Professor; Director, Redox & Bioenergetics Shared Resource

Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD

Professor

Lezi E, PhD

Assistant Professor

Allison D. Ebert, PhD

Associate Professor; Director, Neuroscience Doctoral Program

Pui-Ying (Penny) Lam, PhD

Assistant Professor

Brian A. Link, PhD

Professor

Xuelin Lou, PhD

Professor

John D. McCorvy, PhD

Associate Professor

Ramani Ramchandran, PhD

Professor

Cheryl L. Stucky, PhD

Marvin Wagner Professor

Daochun Sun, PhD

Assistant Professor

Matthew B. Veldman, PhD

Assistant Professor

Yu Wang

Research Assistant, Biostatistics

Carissa W. Tomas, PhD

Assistant Professor

Wei Xu, PhD

Assistant Professor

Adriana Ioachimescu, MD, PhD

Director for Pituitary and Adrenal Disease Program, Division of Endocrinology and Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Professor

Julia Dickson-Gomez, PhD

Professor

Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA

Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities; Director, Graduate Program in Bioethics

Zeljko Bosnjak, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Karen-Sue B. Carlson, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

William R. Drobyski, MD

Mariette C. and Philip W. Orth/Tom Anderson Chair of Oncology; Co-Leader, Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Cancer Center; Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology

Carol Everson, PhD

Professor

Hershel Raff, PhD, FAAAS, FAPS

Professor, Medicine, Physiology and Surgery

Jyoti Sengupta, PhD

Professor

Andrey Sorokin, PhD

Professor, Medicine (Nephrology) and Microbiology & Immunology

Sakthi Sundararajan, MD

Cardiology Fellow

Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program

Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD

Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Andrew J. Anderson, PhD

Assistant Professor

Piero G. Antuono, MD

Professor of Neurology, Pharmacology and Toxicology

Paul E. Barkhaus, MD

Professor

Jeffrey R. Binder, MD

Professor of Neurology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Biophysics; Director of Stroke and Neurobehavior Programs, Department of Neurology; Director of Language Imaging Laboratory, Department of Neurology

Diane S. Book, MD

Professor

Ryan Brennan, DO

Assistant Professor

Alissa M. Butts, PhD, ABPP

Associate Professor

Chad Carlson, MD

Professor

Marek Cierny, MD

Assistant Professor

Anthony N. Correro, PhD

Assistant Professor

Raquel Farias-Moeller, MD

Associate Professor

Leonardo Fernandino, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering; Interim Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs and Development, Department of Neurology

Ekokobe Fonkem, DO

Chair, Professor of Neurology

Malgorzata Franczak, MD

Professor

Frederick Freitag, DO

Professor

Amy K. Heffelfinger, PhD, MPE

Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics; Chief, Pediatric Neuropsychology

Sam Hooshmand, DO

Assistant Professor

Eric Jackowiak, MD

Assistant Professor

Julie K. Janecek, PhD, ABPP

Associate Professor

Jennifer I. Koop, PhD, ABPP

Professor

Melissa A. Lancaster, PhD, ABPP

Assistant Professor

Joshua J. Larocque, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Michelle Loman Moudry, PhD, ABPP-CN

Associate Professor

Niyati Mehta, MD

Assistant Professor

Ahmed Zayed Obeidat, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Sara B. Pillay, PhD, ABPP

Associate Professor

Manoj Raghavan, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurology; Department of Neurosurgery

Varun Sampat, MD

Instructor

Priyanka Shah-Basak, PhD

Assistant Professor

Laura Glass Umfleet, PsyD, ABPP

Associate Professor

Vahab Youssof Zadeh, PhD

Assistant Professor; Technical Director, MEG Program

Kirti Thummala, PhD

Assistant Professor

Benjamin Brett, PhD

Assistant Professor

Matthew D. Budde, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

Andrew Foy, MD

Associate Professor

Kunal Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS

Assistant Professor

Bruce A. Kaufman, MD

Professor

Irene Kim, MD

Assistant Professor

Jeffrey A. King, DC, MS

Associate Professor; Director of Chiropractic

Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Max O. Krucoff, MD, FAANS, FACS

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Co-Director of Neurosurgical Oncology; Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD

Professor; Senior Associate Dean, Neuroscience; Founding Director, Wisconsin Institute of NeuroScience (WINS)

Sean M. Lew, MD, FAANS

Mardak/Vandenberg Family Chair of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children’s Wisconsin; Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin; Director, Epilepsy Surgery, Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin

Michael McCrea, PhD, ABPP

The Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD, Chair in Neurosurgery; Professor; Vice Chair of Research; Co-director, Neurotrauma Research Center; Director, Brain Injury Research Program

Timothy B. Meier, PhD

Professor

L. Tugan Muftuler, PhD

Professor

Lindsay Nelson, PhD, ABPP

Professor

John D. Nerva, MD

Assistant Professor

Peter A. Pahapill, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSC

Professor; Director, Functional Neurosurgery

Hernan G. Rey, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

Kajana Satkunendrarajah, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Physiology

Grant P. Sinson, MD

Associate Professor; Director, Neurotrauma; Director, Outpatient Clinic Operations

Shelly D. Timmons, MD, PhD, FACS, FAANS

Professor and Chair, Sanford J. Larson Chair in Neurosurgery

Aditya Vedantam, MD

Associate Professor; Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery; Director, Center for Cervical Myelopathy; Adjunct Faculty in Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, and Orthopedics

Narayan Yoganandan, PhD

Professor & Chair of Biomechanics, Department of Neurosurgery; Orthopaedic Surgery; Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering

Joseph Carroll, PhD

Richard O. Schultz, MD / Ruth Works Professor of Ophthalmology Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Biophysics, and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy Director, Advanced Ocular Imaging Program

Shyam S. Chaurasia, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Ross Collery, PhD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Caron Dean-Bernhoft, PhD

Professor

Daniel M. Lipinski, MSc, DPhil

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Joel B. Miesfeld, PhD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Miranda L. Scalabrino, PhD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Xue-Cheng Liu, MD, PhD

Professor, Research Director

Michael S. Harris, MD

Associate Professor

David Friedland, MD, PhD

Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences

Suresh Kumar, PhD

Associate Professor; Scientific Director, CRI Imaging Core; Scientific Director, NRC Imaging Facility

Binod Balakrishnan, MBBS

Associate Professor

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Amanda Brandow, DO

Professor

Susan Cohen, MD

Professor, Section of Neonatology

Shilpa Narayan, MD

Assistant Professor; Program Director, Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship

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Ramani Ramchandran, PhD

Professor

Kevin Richard Rarick , PhD

Assistant Professor

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Victoria Ronan, MBBS

Assistant Professor

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Ru-Jeng Teng, MD

Professor

Lynn Sheets, MD, FAAP

Professor

Pippa M. Simpson, PhD

Professor and Director, Section Chief for Quantitative Health Sciences

Danny Thomas, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics; Research Director, Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Chair, MCW IRB Pediatric Minimal Risk Committee; Medical Staff President-Elect

Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD

Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center; G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research

Felice F. Borisy-Rudin, JD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology; Policy Analyst, Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project (WisAPP)

Christopher M. Olsen, PhD

Associate Professor

Alan S. Bloom, PhD

Professor

Constanza Garcia Keller, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Sang H. Lee, PhD

Professor

Qing-Song Liu, PhD

Professor

John Mantsch, PhD

Florence J. Williams Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Jennifer J. Tuscher, PhD

Assistant Professor

Kristen Bunnell Bresnehan, PharmD, BCCCP

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences

Abir T. El-Alfy, PhD, MS

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Professor Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

Nashaat Gerges, PhD, BPharm

Professor, Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

Diane W. Braza, MD

Professor

Matt Durand, PhD

Associate Professor; Research Director; Secondary Faculty Appointment in Physiology

Justin L. Grobe, PhD, FAHA, FAPS

Professor, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering; Butenhoff Family Professor of Cardiovascular Research; Director, Comprehensive Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core

Matthew R. Hodges, PhD, FAPS

Professor and Eminent Scholar; Director of Graduate Studies

Aaron Mickle, PhD

Associate Professor

Gary Mouradian, PhD

Assistant Professor

Pablo Nakagawa, PhD

Assistant Professor

Curt D. Sigmund, PhD

James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology; Chair of Physiology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center

Gwendolyn Hoben, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Jennifer Knight, MD, MS, FACLP

Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology

Sara Kohlbeck, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor; Director, Division of Suicide Research and Healing

Sadie E. Larsen, MA, PhD

Associate Professor

Jon A. Lehrmann, MD

Charles E. Kubly Professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine, Chair and Professor, MCW Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine

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Jennifer Apps, PhD

Assistant Provost of Faculty Affairs; Professor

Joseph S. Goveas, MD

Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Institute for Health and Equity; Vice-Chair and Director, Geriatric Psychiatry

Youngchan Park, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Carol I. Ping Tsao, MD, JD

Professor

Andrew S. Nencka, PhD

Associate Professor; Associate Director, Center for Imaging Research (CIR); Section of Imaging Research, Division of Imaging Sciences

Yang Wang, MD, PhD

Professor; Division of Imaging Sciences

Terri deRoon-Cassini, PhD, MS

Professor; Director, Comprehensive Injury Center; Council of Centers member, SAVIR Board of Directors

Rachel S. Morris, MD

Assistant Professor

Kirkwood A. Pritchard, Jr., PhD

Professor

Colleen Trevino, RN, NP, PhD

Assoc Professor Clinical Dir Inpatient 2

Jenessa Price, PhD

Associate Professor

Sydney Timmer-Murillo, PhD

Assistant Professor