3rd International Brain Stimulation Conference

Speakers

Invited Speakers:

Raag Airan MD PhD

Stanford University, USA

Raag Airan MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University.

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Til Ole Bergmann PhD

University Hospital Tübingen, Germany

Til Ole Bergmann received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Kiel working with Hartwig Siebner, and spent PostDocs, with Ole Jensen at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen, and with Ulf Ziemann and Jan Born at the University of Tübingen, before he recently became PI of the Neurostimulation group in Mainz.

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Ed Boyden PhD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Ed Boyden is Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, associate professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT's Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and was recently selected to be an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (2018).

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Jonathan Downar MD PhD FRCPC

Toronto Western General Hospital, Canada

Jonathan Downar is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute, and Director of the MRI-Guided rTMS Clinic at the Toronto Western Hospital.

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Mark Hallett

Chief of the Medical Neurology Branch and the Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA

Dr. Hallett is the Chief of the Medical Neurology Branch and the Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He trained at Harvard Medical School, NIH, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

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Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby MD NIH

USA

Dr. Lisanby is an internationally recognized expert in the rational design of neuromodulation technologies. Her work is translational, spanning nonhuman primates, healthy humans, and clinical populations. JP Gibbons Endowed Professor with Tenure and former Department Chair of the Duke Department of Psychiatry, she founded and directed the Duke Brain Stimulation and Neurophysiology Division that encompasses interdisciplinary research labs spanning technology development, pre-clinical modeling, translational neuroscience, clinical trials, and clinical application.

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Dirk Jancke

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Dirk Jancke heads the Optical Imaging Group at the Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He studied Sport Science and Biology and received his PhD from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1997.

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Lucas Parra

City University of New York, USA

Lucas C. Parra is Harold Shames Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in 1996 with research in the area of machine learning.

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Charlotte Stagg MRCP DPhil

Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford, UK

Dr Charlotte (Charlie) Stagg is Professor of Human Neurophysiology and Head of the Physiological Neuroimaging Group at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN), University of Oxford, UK. She has held a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society, since 2014.

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Aurore Thibaut

Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, Belgium

Dr. Thibaut has a master in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation and did a specialization in Neuroscience (University of Liege in Belgium). She did her PhD with the Coma Science Group (Pr. S. Laureys, GIGA Research, University of Liege, Belgium) and currently has a FNRS post-doctoral position.

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Janet Taylor

Professor of Human Neurophysiology, Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia

Janet Taylor is a Professor of Human Neurophysiology in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia

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Zelma Kiss MD PhD

Deputy Editor, Neurosurgery, Brain Stimulation, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Zelma HT Kiss MD PhD is a clinician-scientist and Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences/Psychiatry and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

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Workshop Speakers:

Marom Bikson

Deputy Editor, Technology and Modeling, Brain Stimulation, The City College of New York, NY, USA

Marom Bikson, is a Cattell Professor of Biomedical Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY) and co-Director of the Neural Engineering Group at the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering.

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Paul Fitzgerald MBBS PhD

Deputy Editor, Psychiatry, Brain Stimulation, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, The Alfred and Monash University Central Clinical School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Professor  Paul Fitzgerald is Professor of Psychiatry, Deputy Director and Consultant  Psychiatrist at the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, a joint research  centre of Monash University and the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

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Mark S. George

Editor-in-Chief, Brain Stimulation, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

In  1995 Dr. George, a South Carolina native, returned to Charleston and built a  campus-wide research brain imaging division and the brain stimulation  laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry. As an undergraduate student in philosophy at Davidson College, Dr. George began studying the relationship  between mind and brain, or brain/behavior relationships.

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Zelma Kiss MD PhD

Deputy Editor, Neurosurgery, Brain Stimulation, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Zelma HT Kiss MD PhD is a clinician-scientist and Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences/Psychiatry and the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

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Peter Rosenquist MD

Board-Certified Psychiatrist and Professor and Executive Vice Chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, USA

Peter Rosenquist MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and Professor and Executive Vice Chair for the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior in the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.

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John Rothwell PhD

Deputy Editor, Clinical Neuropsychology, Brain Stimulation, University College London, Queen Square, London, UK

After a PhD at the University of London, John Rothwell, became a Senior  Scientist in the MRC Human Movement and Balance Unit at   the Institute of  Neurology.

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Harold A. Sackeim PhD

Founding Editor, Brain Stimulation, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Dr. Harold A. Sackeim is Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry and Radiology, College of Physicians and  Surgeons, Columbia University.  He served  as Chief of the Department of Biological Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute for 25 years. He is also the founding Editor of the journal, Brain  Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation.

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Ulf Ziemann MD

Deputy Editor, Pharmacology, Brain Stimulation, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Director  of the Department of Neurology and Stroke, and Hertie-Institute for Clinical  Brain Research, University of Tuebingen, Germany. Special expertise: Motor  cortex excitability and plasticity, motor learning, non-invasive brain  stimulation.

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