Leadership Team
We are grateful to have leadership team filled with inspiring and dedicated members with a broad range of experience.
Leadership Team
David Baron, DO, MSEd
2024 GFC Gold Axon Leadership Award WBMF
David Baron, DO, MSEd, is Senior Vice President and Provost of the Western University of Health Sciences and serves as Chief Academic Officer of the university. He is responsible for academic, accreditation, and budgetary affairs.
Qifa Zhou
Epilepsy, EEG, MEG and NeuroRadiology Subcommittee SBMT 2023-2024
Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology in the USC Keck School of Medicine as well as the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Lei Li
Dr. Lei Li is an incoming Assistant Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at Rice University.
Eric Kandel
Member of the USA, German and France National Academies of Science, Kavil Professor and Director of Kavli Institute for Brain Sciences and Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, NY, USA
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).
Amir Goodarzi
UCLA Student Chapter, 2007 Award Recipient | Research Fellow 2017- 2018
Josh Neman-Ebrahim
UCLA Student Chapter, 2009 Award Recipient | Research Fellow 2017-2018
Joseph Yetto
USUHS, 2010 Award Recipient | Research Fellow 2017-2018
