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Neurosurgery
Robert A. Solomon, MD Bryon Stookey Professor and Chairman; Neurosurgeon-in-Chief Cerebral Aneurysms, AVMs, Cerebrovascular Diseases
Richard C. E. Anderson, MD Assistant Professor Pediatric Neurosurgery; Pediatric Spine Disorders
Peter D. Angevine, MD, MPH Assistant Professor Spine
Ronald Brisman, MD Associate Professor Pain
Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD Edgar M. Housepian Professor Brain Tumors, Skullbase Surgery
E. Sander Connolly, Jr., MD Associate Professor Neurovascular Surgery, Critical Care
Neil A. Feldstein, MD Assistant Professor Pediatric Neurosurgery and Craniofacial Surgery
Saadi Ghatan, MD Assistant Professor Pediatric Neurosurgery
Robert R. Goodman, MD, PhD Associate Professor Epilepsy Surgery, Movement Disorders Surgery; Endoscopic Neurosurgery
Edgar M. Housepian, MD Professor Emeritus  
Michael Kaiser, MD Assistant Professor Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Complex Spine Disorders
Sean D. Lavine, M.D.
 Assistant Professor Endovascular Neurosurgery
Paul C. McCormick, MD Herbert & Linda Gallen Professor Spine, Spinal Cord Disorders
Guy M. McKhann, MD Florence Irving Associate Professor Epilepsy Surgery and Functional Neurosurgery
James G. McMurtry III, MD Herbert and Linda Gallen Professor Spine Disorders, Brain Tumors
Donald O. Quest, MD J. Lawrence Pool Professor General Neurosurgery, Carotid Artery Disease
Michael B. Sisti, MD Assistant Professor Malignant Brain Tumors, Stereotactic Microsurgery
Christopher Winfree, MD Assistant Professor Neurological Surgery

Neuropathology
Peter D. Canoll, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Neuropathology; Brain tumors
Yuan Chang, MD Assistant Professor Neuropathology
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD Percy and Joanne Uris Professor (Institute for Cancer Genetics) Molecular Genetics, Oncology
Phyllis L. Faust, MD Assistant Professor Neuropathology
James E. Goldman, MD, PhD Professor and Director, Neuropathology Glial Differentiation, Developmental Neurobiology
Arthur P. Hays, MD Professor Nerve and Muscle Pathology
Michael L. Shelanski, MD, PhD Delafield Professor and Chairman (Co-Director, Taub Institute) Alzheimer Disease
Benjamin Tycko, MD Associate Professor Molecular Neuro-oncology

Neuroradiology
Robert L. DeLaPaz, MD Professor and Head, Division of Neuroradiology Neuroradiology
Stephen Chan, MD Assistant Professor Neuroradiology
Andrew Laine, PhD Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering
Alexander G. Khandji, MD Clinical Professor Neuroradiology
Gina M. Lowe, MD Assistant Professor Neuroradiology

Interventional Neuroradiology
John Pile-Spellman, MD Professor Aneurysms, AVMs, Endovascular Therapy
Sean Lavine, MD Assistant Professor and Co-Director Aneurysms, AVMs, Endovascular Therapy
Philip Myers, MD Assistant Professor and Co-Director Aneurysms, AVMs, Endovascular Therapy

Neuroscientists
Eric Kandel, MD University Professor Molecular Basis of Learning and Memory
John D. Koester, PhD Professor and Acting Head, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior Cell and Circuit Control of Autonomic Nervous Sysytem
Richard T. Ambron, PhD Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Richard Axel, MD, PhD University Professor Molecular Biology, Logic of Olfactory Perception
Craig H. Bailey, PhD Associate Professor Neurobiology of Behavior and Learning
Truman R. Brown, PhD Vida Hudson Professor Brain Imaging and MRS
Martin Chalfie, PhD Associate Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Lynn A. Cooper, PhD Centennial Professor Cognitive and Systems Neurobiology
Jane Dodd, PhD Professor Developmental Neurobiology Mechanisms of Neural Cell Patterning
Fiona K. Doetsch, PhD Assistant Professor Molecularbiology of neuron differentiations
Vincent P. Ferrera, PhD Assistant Professor Cognitive and Systems Neurobiology
Stuart Firestein, PhD Associate Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Wilma J. Friedman, PhD Assistant Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Michael D. Gershon, MD Professor and Chairman Anatomic nervous system
Claude P.J. Ghez, MD Professor Motor Control Physiology
Daniel J. Goldberg, PhD Professor Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Synapse Formation; Neurobiology
Michael E. Goldberg, MD David Mahoney Professor Cognitive Neuroscience and Systems
James E. Goldman, MD, PhD Professor Developmental Neurobiology, Neuropathology
Lloyd A. Greene, PhD Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Robert Hawkins, PhD Associate Professor Neurobiology of Behavior and Learning in Hippocampus
René Hen, PhD Associate Professor Molecular Biology of Serotonin Receptors; Neurobiology of Depression and Anxiety
Joy Hirsch, PhD Professor Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Oliver Hobert, PhD Assistant Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Donald Hood, PhD Bender Professor Neurobiology of Behavior and Learning
Thomas M. Jessell, PhD Professor Neurobiology of Motor Neuron Development; Axon Guidance and Cell Recognition
Arthur Karlin, MD, PhD Eugene Higgins Professor and Director, Center for Molecular Recognition Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Darcy B. Kelley, PhD Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Ronald Liem, PhD Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Eduardo Macagno, PhD Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Amy B. MacDermott, PhD Associate Professor Mechanism of synaptic transmission and modulation in spinal cord
J. John Mann, MD Professor Brain Imaging of Neuropsychaitric Disorders; PET
Richard Mann, PhD Associate Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
John Martin, PhD Associate Professor Development of motor pathways and motor behavior; spinal cord injury and regeneration
Carol A. Mason, PhD Professor Mammalian Brain Development
Janet Metcalfe, PhD Professor Cognitive and Systems Neurobiology
Ning Qian, PhD Assistant Professor Cognitive and Systems Neurobiology
Stephen G. Rayport, MD, PhD Associate Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Lorna Role, PhD Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Taube P. Rothman, PhD Senior Research Scientist Neural Differentiation and Development
Samuel M. Schacher, PhD Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Peter Scheiffele, PhD Assistant Professor Molecular Mechanisms of Synapse Formation and Target Recognition
Claudia Schmauss, MD Associate Professor Dopamine Receptor Expression and Function
James H. Schwartz, MD, PhD Professor Second Messenger Systems, Molecular Components of Learning
Michael L. Shelanski, MD, PhD Delafield Professor and Chairman (Co-Director, Taub Institute) Changes in neuronal cytoskeleton and cell adhesion molecules in Alzheimer disease
Steven Siegelbaum, PhD Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Rae Silver, PhD Kaplan Professor Neurobiology of Behavior and Learning
Ann-Judith Silverman, PhD Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Gary Struhl, PhD Professor Neural Differentiation and Development
Andrew Tomlinson, PhD Associate Professor Cellular Interactions in the Developing Drosophila Eye
C. Dominique Toran-Allerand, MD Professor Neural Differentation and Gender Specificity; Role of Estrogen
Hynek Wichterle, PhD Assistant Professor Neuronal development and differentiation; stem cells
Jian Yang, PhD Assistant Professor Biophysics and Cell Biology of Neurons
Rafael Yuste, MD, PhD Associate Professor Development and Function of Cortical Microcircuitry
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