Center Affiliates

	Researcher/Clinician Name	Title	Department	Specialties
	Mark Brantly, MD	Professor	Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine	Pulmonary disease and critical care
	Vijayendran Chandran, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Peripheral and central nervous system regeneration
	Evangelos Christou, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Aging and neuromuscular control
	David Clark, ScD	Professor	Department of Neurology	Rehabilitation from stroke and SCI (human movement)
	Manuela Corti, PT, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Pompe, gene therapy
	Steven DeKosky, MD	Professor; Deputy Director	Department of Neurology; McKnight Brain Institute	Traumatic brain injury
	Aysegul Gunduz, PhD	Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Signal processing, deep brain stimulation
	Daniel Hoh, MD	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	Chair & Bob Paul Family Professor; Director	Department of Neurology; BRAIN Center	Traumatic brain injury
	Jack Judy, PhD	Director	Nanoscience Institute for Medical & 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	Director	Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases	Clinical movement disorders
	Dana Otzel, PhD, ATC, LAT	Health Science Specialist	Department of Physiology & Aging	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 Associate Professor	Division of Pulmonary Critical Care & 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 & 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
	Floyd Thompson, PhD	Adjunct Professor	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	Associate Professor	Department of Anesthesiology	Hypoxia/oxygen in anesthesia
	Heather Vincent, PhD, FACSM	Vice Chair Of Research, Associate Professor; Director	Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; UF Health Sports Performance Center	Rehabilitation from SCI
	Mary Wagner, MD	Clinical Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Sleep disordered breathing
	Charles Wood, PhD	Professor & Chair	Department of Physiology & Functional Genomics	Fetal hypoxia
	Samuel Wu, PhD	Professor & Associate Chair	Department of Biostatistics	Adaptive design of clinical trials; simultaneous statistical inference; data confidentiality & privacy protection; sports statistics