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NCAN Leaders

Jonathan R. Wolpaw, MD

NCAN Director

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

wolpaw@neurotechcenter.org

Peter Brunner, PhD

NCAN Deputy DIrector

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology & Biomedical Engineering
Deputy Director, National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Division of Neurotechnology
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8057, St. Louis, MO 63110

brunner@neurotechcenter.org

NCAN Scientific Advisory Board

Scott L. Delp, PhD

Professor, James H. Clark Chair
Schools of Engineering and Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

delp@stanford.edu

Delp website

Kip A. Ludwig, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
600 Highland Avenue
K4/8 CSC, Box 8660
Madison, WI 53792

kip.ludwig@wisc.edu

Ludwig website

Kathleen M. Friel, PhD

Lab Director, Clinical Laboratory for Early Brain Injury Recovery
Burke Neurological Institute

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Brain and Mind Research Institute
Weill Cornell Medicine

Co-Director of Research
Director of Cerebral Palsy Research
Blythedale Children's Hospital

kaf3001@med.cornell.edu

Friel website

Douglas Weber, PhD

Professor, Afzaal Akhtar and Sarah Bhutta Chair
Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Neuroscience Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

dweber2@andrew.cmu.edu

Weber website

NCAN Administration

Theresa Vaughan, BA Administrative Director National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 vaughan@neurotechcenter.org	Sri Ramya Vemulakonda Research Project Manager Shirley Ryan AbilityLab 355 E. Erie St, Chicago, IL 60611 svemulakon@sralab.org
Juliana Amaral Passipieri, PhD Division of Neurotechnology Manager Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 ajuliana@neurotechcenter.org ajuliana@wustl.edu

NCAN TR&D Leaders

Jonathan R. Wolpaw, MD TR&D 1 Co-Leader National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 wolpaw@neurotechcenter.org	Monica A. Perez, PT, PhD TR&D 1 Co-Leader Scientific Chair, Arms&Hands Lab Executive Director, The Kenneth C. Griffin Center for Research Acceleration Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Professor PM&R and PTHMS Northwestern University Research Scientist Edward Hines Jr., VA Hospital mperez04@sralab.org Perez website
Martin Oudega, PhD TR&D 2 Co-Leader Professor, PTHMS and Neuroscience, Northwestern University Research Health Scientist, Hines VA Hospital Research Scientist, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab moudega@sralab.org Oudega website	Yi Chen, PhD TR&D 2 Co-Leader National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 cheny@neurotechcenter.org
Jon T. Willie, MD, PhD TR&D 3 Co-Leader Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience Department of Neurosurgery Division of Neurotechnology Washington University School of Medicine 660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8057, St. Louis, MO 63110 jontwillie@wustl.edu	Peter Brunner, PhD TR&D 3 Co-Leader Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology & Biomedical Engineering Deputy Director, National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Division of Neurotechnology Washington University School of Medicine 660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8057, St. Louis, MO 63110 brunner@neurotechcenter.org
Daniel Moran, PhD Training & Dissemination Co-Leader Professor of Biomedical Engineering Washington University Campus Box 1097 One Brookings Drive Saint Louis, MO 63130 dmoran@biomed.wustl.edu	Jonathan Carp, PhD Training & Dissemination Co-Leader National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 carp@neurotechcenter.org

NCAN Investigators

Jodi Brangaccio, DPT Research Scientist National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 brangaccio@neurotechcenter.org	Bruce Herron, PhD Research Scientist Wadsworth Center, NYS Dept Health Center for Medical Sciences 150 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 bruce.herron@health.ny.gov Herron website
Darren Gemoets, PhD Research Scientist Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Avenue Albany, NY 12208 darren.gemoets@va.gov	Disha Gupta, PhD Research Scientist National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 gupta@neurotechcenter.org
Russell Hardesty, PhD Research Scientist National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 hardesty@neurotechcenter.org	Sue Heckman, MS OT/L, MS Ed. Clinical Research Specialist National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 heckman@neurotechcenter.org
N. Jeremy Hill, DPhil Research Scientist National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 jeremy.hill@neurotechcenter.org	James Norton, PhD Research Scientist National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 norton@neurotechcenter.org
Yu Wang, PhD National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 yuwang@neurotechcenter.org

NCAN Support Staff

Huiling Huang, MSc Research Assistant Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 huiling@neurotechcenter.org	Molly Rusgrove Research Assistant Union College Schenectady, NY molly@neurotechcenter.org
Naasik Syed Research Assistant Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 naasik.syed@wustl.edu	Nicholas Luczak Research Assistant Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 luczak@neurotechcenter.org
William Engelhardt, MSc Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 wengelhardt@wustl.edu	Xinxin Yang Laboratory Technician National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 xinyangpu@neurotechcenter.org

Collaborators

Dora Hermes, PhD Collaborative Project: Mapping the Human Brain using Cortico-Cortical Evoked Potentials (CCEPs) Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Mayo Clinic Rochester Hermes website, NCAN project description	CJ Heckman, PhD Collaborative Project: Supercomputer-based Models of Motoneurons for Estimating Their Synaptic Inputs in Humans Professor of Physiology/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences Northwestern University Ward Building Room 5-334 303 E Chicago Avenue Chicago IL 60611 c-heckman@northwestern.edu Heckman website, NCAN project description
David Reinkensmeyer, PhD Collaborative Project: Stroke BCI-based EEG Rehabilitation Professor Dept. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiology Dept. Biomedical Engineering University of California, Irvine dreinken@uci.edu Reinkensmeyer website, NCAN project description	Enrico Opri, PhD Collaborative Project: Optimizing Patient-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Models Using Electrophysiology Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Neurology University of Michigan 2800 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 eopri@umich.edu Opri lab website, Opri website, NCAN project description
Eric Meyers, PhD Collaborative Project: A User-Friendly, Noninvasive Neuro-Orthosis That Restores Volitionally Controlled Grasp Functions for SCI Survivors with Tetraplegia Assistant Professor in Bioengineering University of Texas at Dallas Dallas, TX eric.meyers@utdallas.edu NCAN project description	Eric Wolbrecht, PhD, PE Collaborative Project: Stroke BCI-based EEG Rehabilitation Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Chair, Dean, and Professor University of Idaho 875 Perimeter Drive, MS 0902 Moscow, Idaho 83844-0902 ewolbrec@uidaho.edu NCAN project description, Wolbrecht webpage
Isaac Clements, PhD Collaborative Project: Spinal Reflex Conditioning System for Enhancing Motor Function Recovery after Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Senior Vice-President for Scientific Affairs & Innovation BioCircuit Technologies Atlanta, GA iclements@biocircuit.com NCAN project description	Lauren Wengerd, PhD, MS, OTR/L Collaborative Project: A User-Friendly, Noninvasive Neuro-Orthosis That Restores Volitionally Controlled Grasp Functions for SCI Survivors with Tetraplegia Assistant Professor Divisions of Neurological Surgery and Occupational Therapy Ohio State University and NeuroTech Institute Atwell Hall 453 W. 10th Ave. Room 158 Columbus, OH 43210 Lauren.Wengerd@osumc.edu NCAN project description
Kai J. Miller, PhD, MD, PhD Collaborative Project: Mapping the Human Brain using Cortico-Cortical Evoked Potentials (CCEPs) Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics & Biomedical Engineering Mayo Clinic Rochester Miller.Kai@mayo.edu Miller website, NCAN project description	Michael McKinnon, PhD Collaborative Project: Spinal Reflex Conditioning System for Enhancing Motor Function Recovery after Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Senior Biomedical Engineer BioCircuit Technologies Atlanta, GA mmckinnon@biocircuit.com NCAN project description
Robert Rennaker, PhD Collaborative Project: Enhancing Recovery of Lower Limb Function after Spinal Cord Injury Professor of Neuroscience, Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering, and Associate Director, Texas Biomedical Device Center, UT Dallas VP Engineering, Konan Medical USA Founder and CEO, Xnerve Medical Dallas, TX renn@utdallas.edu Texas Biomedical Device Center website, Rennaker Google Scholar page, NCAN project description	Robert Knight, MD Collaborative Project: Decoding the Prefrontal Cortex Professor Depts. Psychology and Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley rtknight@berkeley.edu Knight website, NCAN project description
Stuart Baker, PhD Collaborative Project: Locating the Neural Substrates for the Flexor Synergy after Stroke Professor of Movement Neuroscience Henry Wellcome Building Faculty of Medical Sciences Newcastle University NE2 4HH stuart.baker@ncl.ac.uk NCAN project description, Baker website	Sudhin A. Shah, PhD Collaborative Project: Alerting, Orienting, and Executive Control Networks in Children and Adults Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in Radiology Weill Cornell Medical College sut2006@med.cornell.edu Shah website, NCAN project description
Svjetlana Miocinovic, MD, PhD Collaborative Project: Optimizing Patient-Specific Deep Brain Stimulation Models Using Electrophysiology Associate Professor Emory Clinic, School of Medicine Faculty 12 Executive Park Drive Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30329 svjetlana.miocinovic@emory.edu NCAN project description, Miocinovic webpage

Post-Doctoral Associates

Helia Mojtabavi, MD Post-Doctoral Research Scientist National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 Helia@neurotechcenter.org	Hohyun Cho, PhD Staff Scientist Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 cho@neurotechcenter.org
James Swift, MScE, PhD Staff Scientist Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 swift@neurotechcenter.org	Michael Park, PhD Post-Doctoral Researcher Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 haeorum@wustl.edu
Sebastian Rueda Parra, PhD Post-Doctoral Researcher National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies Albany Stratton VA Medical Center 113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208 sebastian@neurotechcenter.org	Tao Xie, PhD Post-Doctoral Researcher Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 xie@neurotechcenter.org

Visiting Scientists

Shubhada Joshi, PhD

Visiting Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

sjoshi@neurotechcenter.org

Graduate Students

Alexis Simmons Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 a.n.simmons@wustl.edu	Gansheng Tan Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 tan@neurotechcenter.org
Kara Donovan Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 kara.donovan@wustl.edu	Murphy Liu Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 liu.murphy@neurotechcenter.org
Phil Demarest Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 demarest@neurotechcenter.org	Ziwei Li, MSc Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 li.ziwei@neurotechcenter.org

Alumni

Graduate Students

Joshua Fialkoff, Will Coon, Adriana de Pesters, Ladan Moheimanian, Jennifer Barnes, Amin Nourmohammadi, Hadi Habibzadeh, Lynn McCane, Markus Adamek, Sebastian Rueda Parra

Masters Students

Claire Chaisson, Monica Torrecilla Vall-llossera, Abhishek Balavida, Danish Mohamed

Visiting Scientists

Brendan Allison, Nick Anderson, Andreas Dantele, Gregor Fabiani, Helene Floriach, Jan Kubanek, Gregor Malischnig, Peter Mandl, Juergen Metzler, Jakob Miklautz, Kai Miller, Ursula Mochty, Juan Carlos Montes-Castillo, Juerg Moser, Markus Neuper, Javier Temprano, Zuoguan Wang, Lawrence Crowther, Sivylla Paraskevopoulou, Guangye Li, Stavrina Devetzoglou Toliou, Naomi Du Bois

Undergraduate Students

Sean Austin, Richmund Fries, Paul Ignatenko, Sanandeesh Kamat, Chuizheng Kong, Lauren Mance, Nicholas Mathias, Griffin Milsap, Kathleen Sheridan, Alexander Belsten, Abdallah Elmi, Dan Corral, Mike Fedor, Matthew Calandrella, Ryan Gladwell

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