Terry Kauffman
McCamish Program Administrator
Program Administrator for the GT Neural Engineering Center Georgia Tech BME
Leadership
Garrett Stanley, Ph.D.
Director, McCamish Program
Co-Director, GT & Emory Neural Engineering Centers
McCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair, GT & Emory University
Research Interests: control of neural circuits, sensory pathways, decision making
Program Advisory Panel
Anumantha Kanthasamy, Ph.D.
John H. “Johnny” Isakson Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Parkinson’s Research University of Georgia
Center for Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease
Garrett Stanley, Ph.D.
Director, McCamish Program
Co-Director, GT & Emory Neural Engineering Centers
McCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair, GT & Emory University
Research Interests: control of neural circuits, sensory pathways, decision making
Lena Ting, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Emory & GT Neural Engineering Centers
Portman Professor of Biomedical Engineering Emory University & Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Neuromechanics, Movement Control, Parkinson's disease
Thomas Wichmann, M.D.
Director, Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center Yerkes’ Associate Director for Scientific Programs Emory University
A Worley Brown Professor of Neurology
Research Interests: neural circuitry underlying Parkinson's disease
External Scientific Advisory Board
Matthew D. Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Research Interests: neuromodulation technology, deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease
Brian Lau, Ph.D.
Paris Brain Institute / Institut du Cerveau – ICM Experimental Neurosurgery Laboratory Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière
Research Interests: basal ganglia, circuits underlying motor control
Cameron McIntyre, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Neurosurgery Duke University
Research Interests: deep brain stimulation technology for Parkinson's disease
Douglas J. Weber, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Neuroscience Carnegie Mellon University
Research Interests: neurotechnology, sensory feedback for motor control
Research Community
David Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: machine learning, signal processing
Nicholas Au Yong, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurosurgery / Emory
Research Interests: neuromodulation, motor control, sensorimotor integration
Paul Beach, D.O., Ph.D.
Sr. Associate in Movement Disorders
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: Movement disorders, Parkinsonism, Parkinson disease, Multiple system atrophy, Autonomic Dysautonomia, Interoception
Ken Berglund, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurosurgery / Emory
Research Interests: Optogenetics, chemogenetics
James Dahlman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, RNA therapies, CRISPR, gene editing
Stewart Factor, D.O.
Professor and Director ofthe Movement Disorder Program
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: Clinical trials, Parkinson's, Huntington's
Adriana Galvan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neurology and Yerkes National Primate Center / Emory
Research Interests: Basal ganglia, thalamus, non-human primate models, funtional circuits, optogenetics, chemogenetics, electrophysiology
Amanda I Gillespie, Ph.D.
Director of Speech Pathology
Co-Director, Voice Lab
Assistant Professor Otolaryngology / Emory University
Research Interests: voice diagnostics and treatment
Matthew Gombolay
Assistant Professor
College of Computing / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning
Robert Gross, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: developing novel gene and computational approaches to epilepsy and Parkinson's dsease
Madeleine Hackney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Medicine / Emory
Research Interests: Parkinson's disease, aging, older adults, dance, exercise, rehabilitation, imaging, motor control, motor learning, cognition, motor-cognition, psychosocial
Bilal Haider, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Visual cortex, perceptual behavior, visual attention, sensory-motor integration, electrophysiology, patch clamp, optogenetics
Chad Hales, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: molecular biology, neurodegenerative diseases
Ellen Hess, Ph.D.
Professor
Pharmacology and Chemical Biology / Emory University
Research Interests: Movement disorders, mouse models, dopamine, physiology, therapeutics
Daniel Huddleston, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: Parkinsonism MRI RBD Neuromelanin Iron
Omer Inan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Wearable sensing; cardiovascular physiology; autonomic sensing
Dieter Jaeger, Ph.D.
Professor
Biology / Emory
Research Interests: basal ganglia, thalamus, motor cortex, voltage imaging, deep brain stimulation, cerebellum, electrophysiology
Anumantha Kanthasamy, Ph.D.
John H. “Johnny” Isakson Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Parkinson’s Research University of Georgia
Center for Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine
Research Interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease
Shella Keilholz, Ph.D.
Professor
Biomedical Engineering / Georgia Tech / Emory
Research Interests: Functional neuroimaging
Adam M. Klein, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Division of Laryngology
Otolaryngology / Emory University
Research Interests: Voice and swallow symptoms related to Parkinson’s
Hang Lu, Ph.D.
Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Behavioral genetics, whole-brain imaging, high throughput screening
J. Lucas McKay, Ph.D., M.S.C.R.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Informatics, Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: Falls; balance; clinical research; freezing of gait; informatics
Svjetlana Miocinovic, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: Movement disorders, deep brain stimulation, human electrophysiology, computational neuroscience, Parkinson's disease
Cassie Mitchell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Predictive medicine, machine learning, text mining, literature based discovery, dynamical systems engineering
Joe Nocera, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: Neuroscience, exercise, brain imaging
Chethan Pandarinath, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering / Emory
Research Interests: brain computer interfaces, machine learning, assistive devices, movement control
Stella Papa, M.D.
Professor
Neurology / Emory University
Research Interests: Parkinson, basal ganglia circuits, experimental therapeutics
Machelle Pardue, Ph.D.
Professor
Biomedical Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: retinal physiology, mechanisms of disease, therapeutic technologies
Boris Prilutsky, Ph.D.
Professor
Biological Sciences / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Neural control of movement, quadrupedal locomotion, arm reaching movements
Christopher Rozell, Ph.D.
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience; machine learning; signal processing; closed-loop neuromodulation
Annabelle Singer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering / Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Learning and memory, neurodegenerative disease, neural circuits, neural stimulation
Yoland Smith, Ph.D.
Professor
Neurology / Yerkes
Research Interests: Basal ganglia, parkinson, neuroanatomy, synaptic plasticity, electron microscopy, ultrastructure, synaptic network
Garrett Stanley, Ph.D.
Director, McCamish Program
Co-Director, GT & Emory Neural Engineering Centers
McCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair, GT & Emory University
Research Interests: control of neural circuits, sensory pathways, decision making
Lena Ting, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Emory & GT Neural Engineering Centers
Portman Professor of Biomedical Engineering Emory University & Georgia Tech
Research Interests: Neuromechanics, Movement Control, Parkinson's disease
David Weinshenker, Ph.D.
Professor
Human Genetics
Research Interests: Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, locus coeruleus, norepinephrine
Thomas Wichmann, M.D.
Director, Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center Yerkes’ Associate Director for Scientific Programs Emory University
A Worley Brown Professor of Neurology
Research Interests: neural circuitry underlying Parkinson's disease
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