Our Team (with edit links) - U Miami McKnight Brain Institute

Leadership Scientific Advisory Board Members Scholars and Students Collaborators Administrative Support

Leadership

MBI Title:

Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Professor of Neurology and Public Health Sciences
Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair for
Learning and Memory in Aging
Executive Vice Chair of Research and Faculty Affairs, Neurology

Affiliations:

Executive Vice Chair of Research and Faculty Affairs
Chief, Clinical Translational Research Division
Department of Neurology
Director, Master of Science in Clinical Translational Investigations

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Bonnie E. Levin, PhD

MBI Title:

Associate Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Schoninger/Goldberg
Professor of Neurology

Affiliations:

Chief, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Division
Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine

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Ihtsham Ul Haq, MD

MBI Title:

Associate Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Professor of Neurology
Cornfeld/Hurowitz Chair in Movement Disorders
Chief of Movement Disorders Division
Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine

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Christian Agudelo, MD

MBI Title:

Education Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Assistant Professor Clinical Neurology
Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine

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Susan Fox-Rosellini, MBA

MBI Title:

Executive Director Community Engagement
and Business Administration

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Stacy S. Merritt, MA, CCRP

MBI Title:

Research and Administration Director

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Clinical Team

Digna E. Cabral

MBI Title:

Project Manager
Department of Neurology

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Botagoz Aimagambetova, MD

MBI Title:

Research Scientist
Cardiologist (foreign trained)

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Scientific Advisory Board

Christian Agudelo, MD

MBI Title:

Education Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Assistant Professor Clinical Neurology
Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine

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Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH

MBI Title:

Professor
Medicine and Public Health Sciences

Affiliations:

Scientific Advisory Board Member, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine

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James E. Galvin, MD, MPH

MBI Title:

Alexandria & Bernard Schoninger Endowed Chair in Memory Disorders
Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Chief, Division of Cognitive Neurology
Director, Comprehensive Center for Brain Health

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Ihtsham Ul Haq, MD

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Bonnie E. Levin, PhD

MBI Title:

Associate Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
Schoninger/Goldberg
Professor of Neurology

Affiliations:

Chief, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Division
Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine

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David Loewenstein, PhD, ABPP/CN

MBI Title:

Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging

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Philip McCabe, PhD

MBI Title:

Professor and Chairman
Department of Psychology

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Miguel A. Perez-Pinzon, PhD

MBI Title:

Scheinberg Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience

Affiliations:

Vice-Chair for Basic Science in Neurology
Director, The Peritz Scheinberg Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Laboratories

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Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD, FANA

MBI Title:

Affiliations:

Executive Vice Chair of Research and Faculty Affairs
Chief, Clinical Translational Research Division
Department of Neurology
Director, Master of Science in Clinical Translational Investigations

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William K. Scott, PhD

MBI Title:

Professor
Human Genetics, Neurology and Public Health Sciences

Affiliations:

Vice Chair for Education and Training
John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics
Dr. John T. Macdonald Department of Human Genetics

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Xiaoyan Sun, MD, PhD

MBI Title:

Executive Director Brain Endowment Bank
Associate Professor Clinical Neurology
Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine

Affiliations:

Co-Director Brain Endowment Bank Assistant Professor Department of Neurology University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

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Members

Christian J. Camargo, MD

MBI Title:

Assistant Professor
Division of Cognitive Neurology

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Kunjan R. Dave, PhD

MBI Title:

Research Associate Professor
Department of Neurology

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David Della-Morte, MD, PhD

MBI Title:

Associate Professor
Department of Neurology

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Hong Jiang, M.D., Ph.D.

MBI Title:

Associate Professor of Clincal Neuro-ophthalmology & Neurology
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Department of Neurology
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

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Michelle Marrero, MD

MBI Title:

Clinical Neurologist
Division of Cognitive Neurology

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Xiaoyan Sun, MD, PhD

MBI Title:

Executive Director Brain Endowment Bank
Associate Professor Clinical Neurology
Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine

Affiliations:

Co-Director Brain Endowment Bank Assistant Professor Department of Neurology University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

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McKnight Scholars

Nicole Beaton Sur, MD

MBI Title:

Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Evelyn F. McKnight Neurocognitive Scholar
Department of Neurology

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McKnight Students

Taylor Ariko

MBI Title:

McKnight PhD Student

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Mohammad Nafeli Shahrestani, MD

MBI Title:

Evelyn F. McKnight CrossROADS Scholar

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Collaborators

Noam Alperin, PhD

MBI Title:

Professor
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering

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Antoni Barrientos, PhD

MBI Title:

Associate Professor of Neurology

Affiliations:

Associate Professor of Neurology
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute

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Lilah M. Besser, PhD, MSPH

MBI Title:

Research Assistant Professor

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Susan Halloran Blanton, PhD

MBI Title:

Professor
Human Genetics and Otolaryngology

Affiliations:

Dr. John T. Macdonald Department of Human Genetics
Associate Director of Communications and Compliance

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Oliver Bracko, PhD

MBI Title:

Research Asst. Professor

Affiliations:

Research Asst. Professor
Department of Biology
University of Miami

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Scott Brown, PhD

MBI Title:

Associate Research Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences

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Elizabeth Crocco, MD

MBI Title:

Chief
Division of Geriatric Psychiatry

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David A. Davis, PhD, DABT

MBI Title:

Research Assistant Professor, Neurology
Associate Director, Brain Endowment Bank
Miller School of Medicine

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James E. Galvin, MD, MPH

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Joyce Gomes-Osman, P.T., Ph.D.

MBI Title:

Vice President of Interventional Therapy at Linus Health

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Aaron S. Heller, PhD

MBI Title:

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

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Girardin Jean-Louis, Ph.D

MBI Title:

Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Director, Center on Translational Sleep and Circadian Sciences

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Sonya S. Kaur, PhD

MBI Title:

Instructor of Neurology

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Michael J. Kleiman, PhD

MBI Title:

Postdoctoral Fellow

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David Loewenstein, PhD, ABPP/CN

MBI Title:

Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging

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Katalina Fernández McInerney, PhD

MBI Title:

Assistant Professor
Clinical

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Roger McIntosh, PhD

MBI Title:

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

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Deirdre O’Shea, PhD

MBI Title:

Assistant Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist
Comprehensive Center for Brain Health

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Miguel A. Perez-Pinzon, PhD

MBI Title:

Scheinberg Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience

Affiliations:

Vice-Chair for Basic Science in Neurology
Director, The Peritz Scheinberg Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Laboratories

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Alberto Ramos, MD, MSPH, FAASM

MBI Title:

Associate Professor
Clinical Neurology

Affiliations:

Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)

Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Chair of the Young Investigator Research Forum-American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation

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Ami Pravinkant Raval, PhD

MBI Title:

Research Associate Professor

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Joseph F. Signorile, Ph.D.

MBI Title:

Professor of Exercise Physiology
Director Laboratory of Neuromuscular Research and Active Aging
Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences
School of Education and Human Development
University of Miami

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Magdalena Ioana Tolea, PhD

MBI Title:

Research Asst. Professor

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Regina Vontell, PhD

MBI Title:

Associate Director
Brain Endowment Bank

Affiliations:

Research Assistant Professor of Neurology
Associate Director of Clinical and Histopathology

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Jianhua (Jay) Wang, MD, PhD

MBI Title:

Professor

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Administrative Support

Linda Beasley

MBI Title:

Senior Administrative Assistant to Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD. Professor of Neurology, Evelyn F. McKnight Endowed Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging, Scientific Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Executive Vice Chair for Research

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Barbara D’Agostino

MBI Title:

Senior Administrative Assistant to Susan Fox-Rosellini and Basic Science Research Group

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