Program Directors
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Susan Lutgendorf
Title/Position
Dewey B. and Velma P. Stuit Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 479 PBSB
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Behavioral and Interface Mentors
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Bruce Bartholow
Title/Position
Professor Ketchel Family Chair, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 472 PBSB
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Mark Blumberg
Title/Position
F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 378 PBSB
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Ece Demir-Lira
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 275 PBSB
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Natalie Denburg
Title/Position
Professor, Neurology/Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 2155 RCP
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Dorit Kliemann
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 476 PBSB
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Amanda McCleery
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 473 PBSB
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Isaac Petersen
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 175 PBSB
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Emily Thomas
Title/Position
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: 470 PBSB
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Mark Vander Weg
Title/Position
Professor and Head, Community and Behavioral Health/Psychological and Brain Sciences
Office: N432A CPHB
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Biomedical Mentors
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Ted Abel
Title/Position
Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Psychiatry, and Biochemistry
Office: 2312 PBDB
Memory, Epigenetics, Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Aaron Boes
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Neurology
Office: T205 General Hospital
Lesion Mapping, Neuroimaging, Brain Stimulation
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Catherine Bradley
Title/Position
Director, Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Office: 51217 PFP
Urogynecology, Pelvic pain
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Amy Conrad
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Office: 146-B Center for Disabilities and Development
Neuroimaging, brain development in children
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Brian Dlouhy
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Office: 1615-B JCP
Forebrain control of breathing, SUDEP/SIDS, Amygdala
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Sarah Ferri
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Office: 2400 PBDB
Mechanisms of Social deficits and sex bias in neurodevelopmental disorders
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Marie Gaine
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
Office: 546 CPB
Epigenetics in the development and treatment of psychiatric disorders
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Jessica (Jess) Gorzelitz
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Health and Human Physiology
Office: 110 IBIF Exercise oncology
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Banu Gumusoglu, MSc, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Karin Hoth
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Office: W278 GH
Neuropsychology, Neuroimaging, Chronic illness
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Matthew Howard
Title/Position
Chair and DEO, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Office: 1823 JPP
Human Brain Physiology
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Nathaniel Jenkins
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Health and Human Physiology
Office: E118 FH
Early life Psychosocial stress, Physiology, Stress reactivity
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Jing Jiang
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics / Psychiatry
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Affective Neuroscience
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Jacob Michaelson
Title/Position
Roy J. Carver Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Office: 365 MRC
Autism, Language impairment, Genetics, Sleep, Creativity, Eating disorders, Machine learning
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Kumar Narayanan
Title/Position
Juanita J. Bartlet Professor of Neurology
Office: 1336 PBDB
Memory, Epigenetics, Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Mark Niciu
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Office: W267 GH
Pathophysiology of major mood disorders, ketamine, biomarkers of treatment resistance
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Peggy Nopoulos
Title/Position
Professor, Psychiatry
Office: W278 General Hospital
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurodevelopment, Neurogenetics
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Kirill Nourski
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Office: 406 MRC
Epilepsy/seizures, disorders of consciousness, sleep
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Michael O'Rorke
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, College of Public Health
Office: S451 CPHB
Molecular Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology
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George Richerson
Title/Position
Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience, Professor, Neurology
Office: 2151-A1 RCP
Serotonin, Electrophysiology, Control of Breathing, Epilepsy
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Diane Rohlman
Title/Position
Professor and Endowed Chair in Rural Safety and Health, Occupational and Environmental Health
Office: S324 CPHB
Environmental/Occupational Exposures, Pesticides, Neurobehavioral Outcomes
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Andy Russo
Title/Position
Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Office: 5-432 Bowen Science Building
Migraine, Neuropeptides, Pain Sensitization
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Kathleen Sluka
Title/Position
Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Office: 1-248 MEB
Pain, Sex differences, Immune system
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Douglas Spitz
Title/Position
Director, Biosciences Program
Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Office: B180-E ML
Free Radical Biology, Cancer Biology, Degenerative diseases associated with aging
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Hanna Stevens
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Prenatal Development, Inflamation, Neurodevelopmental disorders
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Lane Strathearn
Title/Position
Professor, Pediatrics / Psychiatry / Neuroscience and Pharmacology / Psychological and Brain Sciences
Director, Center for Disabilities and Development
Office: 213F CDD
Developmental pediatrics, developmental, behavioral, and genetic risk markers for autism
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George Weiner
Title/Position
Professor, Internal Medicine - Hematology, Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Office: 5970-Z JPP
Cancer Immunology, Cancer Immunotherapy, Tumor Microenvironment
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Kara Whitaker
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Department of Health and Human Physiology
Office: E116 FH
Sedentary Behavior, Physical Activity, Pregnancy