Center Affiliates

	Researcher/Clinician Name	Title	Department	Specialties
	Alison Barnard, DPT, PhD	Assistant Professor	Department of Physical Therapy	Pathophysiology in Muscular Dystrophy
	Elisabeth Barton, PhD	Professor & Associate Dean for Faculty & Staff Affairs	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Muscular dystrophy and respiratory muscle function
	Jennifer Bizon, PhD	Professor & Chair; Director	Department of Neuroscience; McKnight Brain Institute	Therapeutic intermittent hypoxia and cognitive function in rodent models
	David Borchelt, PhD	Professor; Director	Department of Neuroscience; Santa Fe Health Alzheimer's Disease Research Center	Prior transmission of ALS
	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	Professor	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Aging and neuromuscular control
	Thomas Clanton, PhD	BK & Betty Stevens Professor	Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology	Inflammation in respiratory muscles
	Manuela Corti, PT, PhD	Associate Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Pompe, gene therapy
	Steven DeKosky, MD	Professor; Deputy Director; Senior Advisor	Department of Neurology; McKnight Brain Institute; 1Florida AD Research Center	Traumatic brain injury
	Michael Jaffee, MD, FAAN, FANA	Chair & Bob Paul Family Professor; Director	Department of Neurology; BRAIN Center	Traumatic brain injury
	Jada Lewis, PhD	Professor; Chair	Department of Neuroscience; Department of Physiological Sciences	Pathogenic and therapeutic IH in neurodegenerative disease
	Michael Okun, MD	Director	Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases	Clinical movement disorders
	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
	Laura Ranum, PhD	Professor; Director	Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology; Center for Neurogenetics	Genetics of neurodegenerative neuromuscular disease: myotonic dystrophy and ALS
	Lee Sweeney, PhD	Professor; Director	Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics; Myology Institute	Molecular motors of the myosin superfamily; muscular dystrophy
	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
	Mary Wagner, MD	Clinical Professor	Department of Pediatrics	Sleep disordered breathing