Neurology

Sandra C.V. Almeida, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Understanding the molecular mechanisms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer disease (AD).

Ana Rita Batista, PhD

Academic Role: Instructor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Developing gene therapies for untreatable genetic diseases affecting the CNS

Daryl A. Bosco, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Paul J. DiMare Chair in Neurodegenerative Disease
Focus: Pathogenic mechanisms underlying Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; protein misfolding in ALS
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Robert H. Brown, Jr., MD, DPhil

Academic Role: Professor and Vice Chair

Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology, RNA Therapeutics Institute

Donna M. and Robert J. Manning Chair in Neuroscience
Focus: Identification of gene defects in neuromuscular diseases; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Yingleong Chan, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Using induced pluripotent stem cells from patient samples to model Herpes viral infection as a cause of Alzheimer’s disease and hearing loss due to Cisplatin treatment.
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Felicia Chu, MD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Epilepsy

Eleonora S. D'Ambrosio, MD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Developing gene therapies for rare neurological and neuromuscular diseases.

Janice A. Dominov, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Investigate neuromuscular diseases with an emphasis on congenital and other muscular dystrophies; cell death mechanisms and inflammatory pathway regulation.

Charles P. Emerson Jr., PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

PI, Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Program at UMass Chan Medical School

Focus: Muscular Dystrophies
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Susan B. Gagliardi, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Undergraduate and graduate neuroanatomy education.

Edward Ginns, MD, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pathology, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Neurogenetics; lysosomal storage disorders.

Lisa Hall, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Epigenetic Regulation and Nuclear Structure

Lawrence J. Hayward, MD, PhD

Academic Role: Professor of Neurology

Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology

Focus: Motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Christopher C. Hemond, MD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Multiple Sclerosis, Neuroimaging, Psychoneuroimmunology

Nils Henninger, MD, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Stroke and brain injury.

Carolina Ionete, MD, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune neurological diseases; and neurological complications of HIV infections.

Oliver King, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, UMass Wellstone for FSHD Program

Focus: Bioinformatic approaches in neurological diseases

John Landers, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Genetics of Familial and Sporadic ALS.

Jeanne Lawrence, PhD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics

Leo P. and Thomas M. LaChance Chair in Medical Research
Focus: Chromosome silencing, Down Syndrome, and Alzheimer's Disease
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Ika Noviawaty, MD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery

Director, Epilepsy Service

Focus: Epilepsy

Stephanie Puig, MS, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Psychiatry

Focus: Chronic opioid use for the treatment of pain and prevention of side-effects and opioid addiction

Jillian Richmond, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Dermatology, Department of Neurology

Focus: Immunophenotype in Multiple Sclerosis, Neuropsychiatric Lupus and other conditions, neuroimmune interactions in the skin

Melissa Rotunno, PhD

Academic Role: Assistant Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Uncovering aberrant protein interactions in neurodegenerative diseases for biomarkers and therapeutic development.

Jean Pierre SchatzmannPeron, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Neuro-Immune Interactions; Neuropathogenesis of viral infection

Miguel S. Sena-Esteves, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology, Department of Neurology, Horae Gene Therapy Center

Focus: Preclinical gene therapy of neurological diseases and brain cancer.

Kara Smith, MD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology

Focus: Parkinson’s disease, Movement disorders, biomarker development

Thomas Smith, MD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Pathology

Focus: Forensic neuropathology and CNS neoplasia.

Andrew W. Zimmerman, MD

Academic Role: Professor

Programs: Department of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics

Focus: Pediatric Neurology; Autism

Jill Zitzewitz, PhD

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Programs: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Neurology

Focus: Protein Misfolding and Disease.