Board Of Directors
We are grateful to have a multispecialty inspiring leadership team dedicated to fast-tracking diagnostics, therapeutics, technologies, and policies.

Board Of Directors

Babak Kateb
Chairman and CEO of SBMT 1st President SBMT, WBMF Pioneer in Medicine Award, 2015 | NanoneuroSurgery and NeuroPhotonics Subcommittee SBMT 2023-2024, BCI, Neurotechnology, Neuroengineering Subcommitee 2023-2024, Military Medicine Subcommittee 2023 - 2024 | Neuroscience20 Global Chairman
Founding Chairman of the Board of SBMT and President of World Brain Mapping Foundation, Scientific Director of SBMT and Brain Mapping Foundation, Director of National Center for Nano-Bio-Electronics, Director of Brain Technology and Innovation Park (BTIP), and Chairman of science advisory board of Infinity Arc (cancer/radiosurgery tech).

Vasileios K. Katsaros
Epilepsy, EEG, MEG, and NeuroRadiology Subcommittee SBMT 2023- 2024
Neuroradiologist, Athens, Greece
Director of the Department of Advanced Imaging Modalities General Anti-Cancer and Oncological Hospital of Athens

Keyne Johnson
Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Brain, and Spine Institute, Winter Park, FL, USA

Andre Machado
Chairman of Neurosurgical Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

Ashraf Mounir Elsayegh
Dr. Elsayegh graduated from the Ross University School of Medicine in 1998. He works in Los Angeles, CA and 3 other locations and specializes in Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care Respiratory Therapy, Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine.

Dawn S. Eliashiv
Epilepsy, EEG, MEG, and NeuroRadiology Subcommittee SBMT 2023- 2024
Professor of Neurology and Co-Director of the UCLA Seizure Disorders Center, Los Angeles CA, USA

George Perry, PhD
2024 GFC Gold Axon Leadership Award WBMF
Professor of biology and chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the former dean of the College of Sciences. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal in Alzheimer’s Disease
Co-Chair of SBMT Alzheimer’s Subcommittee.

Abilash Haridas
22nd President SBMT 2024- 2025 | Chair of Cerebrovascular advances Subcommittee 2023-2025
Dr Abilash Haridas is a Double Board-Certified Neurosurgeon who practices in Los Angeles.

Christina Sadowsky
Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Maryland, USA

Denise B. Kandel
Denise Kandel, PhD., Head of the Department of Epidemiology of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Psychiatry at Columbia University. Major interests: the epidemiology, risk factors, and consequences of drug use, in particular smoking and prescription opioid use; the epidemiology of substance dependence; developmental pathways of problem behaviors in adolescence; the intergenerational transmission of deviance; animal models of epidemiological paradigms.

Reinhard Schulte
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, CA, USA, WBMF Golden Axon Award Recipeint 2021 | NeuroOncology Subcommittee SBMT 2023-2024
Dr. Reinhard Schulte has more than 18 years of experience in proton radiation therapy and proton radiosurgery.