Warren Grundfest
Heavily involved in SPIE conferences as a chair, committee member, and presenter since the early 90s, Grundfest was active in the earliest iterations of SPIE BiOS and, along with SPIE Fellow Abraham Katzir, was that symposium’s founding chair. Grundfest was appointed an SPIE Fellow in 1996. “The death of Warren Grundfest is a great loss […]
Ferenc A. Jolesz
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 […]
Kasif Nevzat Tarhan
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. Following his internship at GATA (Gülhane Military Medical Academy) he worked in Cyprus and Bursa garrisons at different military medical institutions. In 1982 he became a specialist psychiatrist at […]
Namath Hussain
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 […]
Reinhard Schulte
Dr. Reinhard Schulte has more than 18 years of experience in proton radiation therapy and proton radiosurgery. He has a doctorate in medicine (summa cum laude) and a diploma in physics from German Universities. He is licensed as a physician both in Germany and the United States, and is a board-certified radiologist in Germany. He is […]
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 […]
Christina Sadowsky
Dr. Sadowsky, Associate Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is Clinical Director of the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. The spinal cord injury center cares for both children and adults with spinal cord related paralysis and is built on the philosophy that functional restoration […]
Abilash Haridas
Abilash Haridas is a Neurosurgery expert in Los Angeles, California. Haridas has been practicing medicine for over 23 years and is rated as an Experienced expert by MediFind in treating Spinal tumors. According to our data, he is also highly rated in 2 other conditions. His top areas of expertise are Stroke, Moyamoya Disease, Tieche-Jadassohn […]
George Perry, PhD
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. Research Interests Dr. Perry’s studies are focused on the mechanism of formation and physiological consequences of the cytopathology of Alzheimer disease. […]
Robert W. Thatcher
Robert W. Thatcher, Ph.D. received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. degree in Psychology/Biopsychology from the University of Waterloo before completing postdoctoral fellowships in Neurobiology and Neurophysiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York Medical College. In 1973 Dr. Thatcher was appointed as Assistant Professor of […]
