Leadership Team
We are grateful to have leadership team filled with inspiring and dedicated members with a broad range of experience.
Leadership Team
Stephen Hawking
2015 Award Recipient
Theoretical Physicist, Director of Research Centre for Theoretical Cosmology
William Kyle Carpenter
Corporal USMC (Ret), Medal of Honor Recipient, 2016 Award Recipient
MIAMI, April 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT), the leading multi-specialty association for Brain Mapping, is holding its 13th Annual World Congress for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics in Miami, FL 8-10 April 2016 in partnership with Florida International University (FIU), the Brain Mapping Foundation, Children’s Hospital Miami, Uskudar University Turkey, the Institute for Nerve Medicine, and the California Neurosurgical Institute. Other strategic partners include National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US Army’s Office of the Surgeon General, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the Department of State, Department of Energy, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Department of Defense (DoD) and industry leaders: X2 BioSystems Inc., Surgical Theater, Medtronic, Stryker, EIZO , Haag-Streit USA, Time Medical, Nordic NeuroLab and Compumatics.
Travis Roy
2017 Award Recipient
Founder, Travis Roy Foundation for Spinal Cord Injury Grants & Research
Jeremy Richman
2018 Award Recipient
Dr. Richman is a neuro-pharmacologist with more than 20 years of research and drug discovery experience.
Bobak Kalhor
2019 Award Recipient
Bobak Kalhor is Writer,Director,Producer.Known For “A Dying King: The Shah of Iran”.
Montel Williams
2020 Award Recipient
Montel Williams is American television personality, radio talk show host, and actor.
Harrison Ford
2021 Award Recipient
Ford is a private pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, and owns an 800-acre (3.2 km2) ranch in Jackson, Wyoming, approximately half of which he has donated as a nature reserve.
Poonacha Machaiah
2022 Award Recipient
Serial entrepreneur and CEO of the Chopra Foundation.
Poonacha Machaiah has over 20 years of global experience as a successful serial entrepreneur and business leader in Fortune 100 companies. Poonacha is among the new breed of emerging social entrepreneurs who are using approaches from the commercial world and employing technology to tackle social and environmental problems.
