Center Affiliates

	Researcher/Clinician Name	Title	Department	Specialties
	Russell Bauer, PhD, ABPP	Professor	Department of Clinical & Health Psychology	Traumatic brain injury
	Mark Brantly, MD	Professor	Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine	Pulmonary disease and critical care
	Vijayendran Chandran, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Peripheral and central nervous system regeneration
	Evangelos Christou, PhD	Professor	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Aging and neuromuscular control
	David Clark, ScD	Associate Professor	Department of Aging & Geriatric Research	Rehabilitation from stroke and SCI (human movement)
	Manuela Corti, PT, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Pompe, gene therapy
	Steven DeKosky, MD	Professor & Deputy Director	Department of Neurology	Traumatic brain injury
	Carolyn Geis, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation	Clinical SCI
	Aysegul Gunduz, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Signal processing, deep brain stimulation
	Daniel Hoh, MD	Associate Professor	Department of Neurosurgery	Minimally invasive and complex spine surgery; spinal cord regeneration; neurologic rehabilitation; treatment of spinal degenerative, trauma, deformity, tumor, rheumatologic, and infectious disorders
	Michael Jaffee, MD, FAAN, FANA	Professor & Vice Chair	Department of Neurology	Traumatic brain injury
	Jack Judy, PhD	Director	Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technology	Advanced neural-interface technology and systems, autonomic neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics
	Ronald Mandel, PhD	Professor	Department of Neuroscience	AAV for neuroanatomical tracing of respiratory pathways and gene therapy
	Michael Okun, MD	Professor & Chair	Department of Neurology	Clinical movement disorders
	Dana Otzel, PhD, ATC, LAT	Health Science Specialist	Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center	Human and rodent studies of muscle/bone rehabilitation after SCI
	Karim Oweiss, PhD	Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Neuroengineering, cortical compensation for SCI; neural interface design to restore, augment or repair lost sensorimotor function
	Divya Patel, DO	Clinical Assistant Professor	Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine	Pulmonary disease, sarcoidosis, critical care medicine
	Sreekala Prabhakaran, MD	Clinical Associate Professor	Pediatric Pulmonary Division	Sleep patterns and sleep disorders
	José Principe, PhD	Distinguished Professor	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Neural Networks; Digital Signal Processing, Brain Machine Interfaces
	Maurice Swanson, MS, PhD	Professor & Associate Director	Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology	Co/post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and RNA-mediated disease mechanisms
	Tanja Taivassalo, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Physiology & Functional Genomics	Muscle dysfunction & therapeutics in human DMD
	Floyd Thompson, PhD	Professor Emeritus	Department of Neuroscience	Spasticity after TBI/SCI
	Shahab Vahdat, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Imaging SCI and stroke in human and rodent models
	David Vaillancourt, PhD	Professor & Chair	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Brain regulation of movement with focus on voluntary and involuntary motor disorders
	Terrie Vasilopoulos, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Anesthesiology	Hypoxia/oxygen in anesthesia
	Heather Vincent, PhD, FACSM	Associate Professor	Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation	Rehabilitation from SCI
	Mary Wagner, MD	Clinical Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Sleep disordered breathing
	Charles Wood, PhD	Professor & Chair	Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics	Fetal hypoxia
	Samuel Wu, PhD	Professor & Program Director	Department of Biostatistics	Adaptive design of clinical trials; simultaneous statistical inference; data confidentiality & privacy protection; sports statistics
	Joshua Yarrow, PhD	Health Scientist	Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center	Sex hormones and bone density after SCI