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).
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.
Julie Pilitsis
Dean of Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, VP for Medical Affairs, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA
Abilash Haridas
President SBMT 2024- 2025 | Chair of Cerebrovascular advances Subcommittee 2023-2025
Founder and CEO
Astra Neurosurgical Institute, Los Angeles
Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery
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.
Theodore W. Berger
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, David Packard Chair of Engineering, Director, CA, USA Center for Neural Engineering – USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Namath Hussain
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Loma Linda University, CA, USA
Dr. Namath S. Hussain, MD, MBA is a board certified neurosurgeon who treats all surgical diseases of the brain and spine. However, he has a specific interest in both minimally invasive spinal techniques for adult degenerative spinal disease, spinal tumors, trauma, spinal column deformity, and disorders affecting the craniovertebral junction. Dr. Hussain obtained his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering graduating with distinction from the University of Southern California.
Kasif Nevzat Tarhan
WBMF Golden Axon Award, 2019 | Professor of Psychiatry, President/Rector, Üskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey
Nevzat Tarhan was born in Merzifon/Turkey in 1952. He finished Kuleli Military High School in 1969 and graduated from Cerrahpaşa Medical School Ístanbul University in 1975.
Ferenc A. Jolesz
2nd President of SBMT, Award Recipeint 2005
Jolesz became director of the Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1988, and in 1989, associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School. In 1993, he established the Image-Guided Therapy Program at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital to advance the use of imaging for enhancing minimally invasive surgical procedures and other means of therapy delivery.
