Leadership Team
We are grateful to have leadership team filled with inspiring and dedicated members with a broad range of experience.
Leadership Team
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.
Christina Sadowsky
Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Maryland, USA
Abilash Haridas
Chair of Cerebrovascular advances Subcommittee 2023-2024
Pediatric Neurosurgeon, St. Joseph Children’s Hospital Tampa, FL, USA
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
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.
Robert W. Thatcher
2020 Award Recipient
Founder and CEO of Applied Neuroscience, Inc.,Director of Applied Neuroscience Research Institute, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Jennifer Fogarty
Chief Scientific Officer for the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine and the Director of Applied Health and Performance at Sophic Synergistics LLC.
Roger W. Werne
BCI, Neurotechnology, Neuroengineering Subcommitee 2023-2024
Associate Director for Engineering and Technology Transfer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA
