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Executive Board

Executive Board of SBMT. Active members of the SBMT Board of Directors, who channel resources in the form of grants, charity donations, and fund programs, as well as participating in the decisions shaping the current presidency’s events and decisions and have participated in the SBMT leadership in the past.

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. 

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.

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.

Farzad Massoudi

4th President of SBMT
Medical Director of Neuroscience and Spine Institute, Mission Hospital, Orange County, CA, USA
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