Position Title
Associate Professor
- Department of Neurological Surgery
- Center for Neuroscience
- Neuroscience Graduate Group
My career is dedicated to translational neuroscience, starting with studying neuropathic pain as an undergraduate and transitioning into brain injury (traumatic brain injury and epilepsy) during my graduate and post-graduate training. Crossing a range of scientific scales from cell culture, to preclinical rodent studies and ultimately human behavior, and also developing a range of techniques from optical imaging of calcium transients, intracranial electrophysiology, histology and behavior, my goal has been to better describe mechanisms of brain injury and to develop novel therapies for neurological and psychiatric diseases.
One of the other emphases of my lab has been training, mentoring and collaboration. I have had the fortune of working with numerous exceptional undergraduate, graduate and medical students as well as post-doctoral fellows and clinical residents to help develop our collective careers and to move the science forward. Moreover, the success of my research is highly dependent on collaboration, combining the expertise of neuroscientists, engineers and clinicians. My general philosophy is that the complexities of the brain, and brain diseases, are too great for any one laboratory on its own. My current goal is to work with our students, collaborators and clinicians to translate the potential of novel neuromodulation strategies, deep brain stimulation in particular, to improve outcomes in patients with complex neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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