Success for Researchers
Congratulations to the 2012 Clinical Research Fellowship Recipients
AAN Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowships
Funded by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Neurology Foundation.
Christopher Anderson, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mentor: Jonathan Rosand, MD
Title: "Oxidative Phosphorylation in Ischemic Stroke: Genetic and Functional Association with Disease Risk and Outcomes"
An Hong Do, MD
University of California Irvine
Mentor: Steven Cramer, MD, MMSc
Title: “A non–Invasive Brain Computer Interface Method to Improve Gait Functional Recovery After Stroke”
Thalia S. Field, MD
University of British Columbia
Mentor: Oscar Benavente, MD
Title: “Effect of Blood Pressure Variability on Severity of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Cognition in the Secondary Prevention of Small Subcortical Strokes (SPS3) Study”
Vikas Kotagal, MD
University of Michigan
Mentor: Roger Albin, MD; Nicolaas I. Bohnen, MD, PhD
Title: "Postural Instability and Gait Difficulty is Associated with Cholinergic Denervation and Increased Non–Motor Features of Parkinson's Disease”
Corneliu C. Luca, MD, PhD
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Mentor: Carlos Singer, MD; Michael Benatar, MBChB, DPhil
Title: “Exploring 4–Aminopyridine as a Therapeutic Approach for Gait Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease”
Kiran Maski, MD
Children's Hospital Boston
Mentor: Robert Stickgold, MD, PhD
Title: “Understanding the Impact of Sleep Disturbances on Memory Consolidation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders”
Nandakumar Narayanan, MD, PhD
Yale Medical School
Mentor: Ralph DiLeone, PhD
Title: “Prefrontal Dopamine and Cognitive Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease”
Mwiza Ushe, MD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Mentor: Joel Perlmutter, MD
Title: “The Differential Effects of Dorsal versus Ventral Subthalamic Nucleus Stimulation on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Motor Improvement in Parkinson's Disease”
Jeffrey Waugh, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard University
Mentor: Nutan Sharma, MD, PhD
Title: “The Evolution of Maladaptive Motor Control Networks in Dystonia”
M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Mentor: Sydney Cash, MD, PhD; Steven Mark Greenberg, MD, PhD
Title: “Early Detection of Delayed Cerebral Ischemia after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Using Context–Sensitive Computational EEG”
AAN Foundation/Alzheimer's Association Robert Katzman, MD Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Alzheimer's Research
Funded by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the Alzheimer's Association.
Suzanne Schindler, MD, PhD
Washington University St. Louis
Mentor: Marc Diamond, MD
Title: “Spread of Tau–Associated Pathology Between Nodes in a Functionally Connected Network”
AAN Foundation/American Epilepsy Society/Epilepsy Foundation Susan S. Spencer Clinical Research Training Fellowship in Epilepsy
Funded by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation, the American Epilepsy Society, and the Epilepsy Foundation.
Anli Liu, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mentor: Alvaro Pascual–Leone, MD, PhD
Title: “Efficacy of tDCS for Treating Depression in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy”