Meet Our Team
Director
Joseph S. Goveas, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and Institute for Health and Equity; Director, Geriatric Psychiatry
Other Faculty
Mohit Agarwal, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Clinical neuroradiologist specializes in MRI, functional MRI, and head and neck imaging. Dr. Agarwal will conduct clinical radiology reads of our research MRI scans.
Anjishnu Banerjee, PhD
Associate Professor
Statistical modeling of complex multidimensional data arising from application areas such as clinical imaging, multi-"omics", functional association modeling, Bayesian hierarchical, and non-parametric analysis
Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
Professor
Developing novel resting-state functional connectivity MRI techniques to study brain network dysfunction; human connectome project protocols; integrating clinical and multimodal imaging biomarkers
Yang Wang, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiology; Division of Imaging Sciences
Task-dependent functional MRI; resting-state functional connectivity MRI; Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) perfusion; multiband multiecho imaging; machine learning approaches
Consultants/Advisors
Charles F. Reynolds, III, MD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and UPMC Endowed Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts School of Medicine and Maine Medical Center; Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
M. Katherine Shear, MD
Marlon E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry in Social Work; Founding Director, The Center for Complicated Grief Columbia School of Social Work, New York, NY
Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD
Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center
Dr. Hillard was named Associate Dean for Research in November 2015 after serving eight months as co-Interim Senior Associate Dean for Research. She has served as director of the Neuroscience Research Center since its inception in 2010. She was also Inaugural Director of the Neuroscience Graduate Training Program from 1996-2010. As a highly active researcher, Dr. Hillard’s laboratory is primarily focused on the pharmacology and biochemistry of the cannabinoids and endocannabinoids.
Research Staff
Stacy A. Claesges, BA, CCRC
Clinical Research Coordinator III
Extensive experience in recruiting middle-aged and older participants for clinical and functional MRI studies of normal aging, grief, and late-life neuropsychiatric diseases.
Gang (Jeff) Chen, PhD
Research Scientist II (Li Lab)
Resting-state functional connectivity MRI; advanced methods to identify brain network dysfunction
Postdoctoral Fellows
Luisa Bohorquez Montoya, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Focus: Task-dependent functional MRI; Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Residents & Students
Hannah Reiland, DO
Resident, PGY 4
Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine; Des Moines, IA. Project: Personality and social factors associated with grief trajectories
Anne-Marie Giuca, MD
Resident, PGY 3
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI. Project: Lifestyle factors and social determinants of prolonged grief disorder
Brianna Hoffmann
Medical Student, 2nd Year
Project: Cerebral blood flow in grief