Success for Researchers
Congratulations to the 2009 Clinical Research Fellowship Recipients
Daniel O. Claassen, MD
The University of Virginia
Mentor: G. Frederick Wooten Jr., MD, FAAN
Karen Johnston, MD, MSc
Scott Wylie, PhD
Title of Research: "Impulse Control Disorders and Parkinson's disease: The Effect of Dopamine Therapy on Decision-Making and Response Inhibition"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Rachel Goldmann Gross, MD
The University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Murray Grossman, MD, FAAN
Title of Research: "Development of Multidimensional Biomarkers for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Corticobasal Degeneration"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Chad Hales, MD, PhD
Emory University
Mentor: James J. Lah, MD, PhD
Title of Research: "In Vitro Learning in Hippocampal Networks on Multielectrode Arrays (MEAs)"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
William Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mentor: A. Gregory Sorenson, MD
Title of Research: "Characteristics Affecting Oxygen Delivery Alter the Ischemic Threshold Predicted by the Perfusion on MRI"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Andrew Lim, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mentor: Clifford B. Saper, MD, PHD, FAAN
Title of Research: "Loss of Ventrolateral Preoptic Neurons in Age-Related Sleep Loss"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston
Mentor: Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD
Title of Research: "Capacitor for the Effects of Sleep Deprivation: Linking Sleep, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Cellular Stress Pathways"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Sashank Prasad, MD
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Mentor: Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD
Title of Research: "Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity in Blindness"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Lesli E. Skolarus, MD
The University of Michigan
Mentor: Devin L. Brown, MD, MS
Lewis B. Morgenstern, MD, FAAN
Title of Research: 'Sleep Apnea in Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Stroke Patients"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD
The University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: H. Branch Coslett, MD, FAAN
Title of Research: "To Determine if Repetitive TMS (rTMS) Can Be Used Therapeutically for Adults with Persistent Developmental Dyslexia"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Martina Vendrame, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mentor: Frances E. Jensen, MD
Title of Research: "The Role of Microglial Activation on Synaptic Plasticity in the Eliptic Brain"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology
Congratulations to the 2009 AAN Foundation Corporate Roundtable Clinical Research Training Fellowship Recipient
Toni Pearson, MD
Columbia University Medical Center
Mentor: Pietro Mazzoni, MD, PhD
John Krakauer, MD
Title of Research: "What Aspects of Motor Performance Predict Recovery After stroke in Children?"
Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation Corporate Round Table and the American Academy of Neurology