Scientific Advisory Board
Philip A. DeFina, Ph.D.
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Scientific Officer
International Brain Research Foundation, Inc.
Faculty, New York University School of Medicine.
Julian E. Bailes, M.D.
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Gary S. Belkin, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Deputy Director of Psychiatry, Bellevue Hospital. Associate Professor, New York University School of Medicine.
Niels Birbaumer, Ph.D.
Director, Center of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Trento, Italy.
Ralph Cancro, Ph.D.
Director, Psychological Services
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, New York.
Mukund S. Chorghade, Ph.D.
President, Chorghade Enterprises/CP Consulting, Inc.
Chief Scientific Officer, D & O Pharmachem.
Joseph Colombo, Ph.D.
Medical Director and Executive Vice-President, Ansar, Inc.
Edwin B. Cooper, Jr., M.D., P.A.
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Consultant, Lenoir Memorial Hospital, Kinston, North Carolina.
James B. Cooper, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
Stuart Lawrence Cutler, ABSNP
Diplomate in School Neuropsychology. School Neuropsychologist with the New York City Department of Education.
John DeLuca, Ph.D., ABPP
Director, Neuroscience Research
Vice President, Research Training
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation (KMRREC)
Professor, Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Neurology and Neuroscience, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ-NJMS).
Ralph DePalo, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University.
Richard Deth
Professor of Pharmacology at Northeastern University, Boston.
Wlodzislaw Duch, Ph.D.
Head, Department of Informatics
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.
Kamran Fallahpour, Ph.D.
Director, Brain Resource Assessment and Treatment Center of New York
Faculty member, Department of Psychiatry, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York City.
Jonathan Fellus, M.D.
Director, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation.
Dr. Rita Formisano
Director of Neuro-Rehabilitation Department, Post-Coma Unit,
Via Ardeatina, Rome.
Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine. Diplomate, The American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology
Director, The East-West Science and Education Foundation.
Giacinto Grieco, M.D.
Drug & Medical Device Development Consultant
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine.
James B. Hale, Ph. D.
Associate Professor & Associate Director of Clinical Training, Department of Psychology
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Max J. Hilz, M.D.
Professor, Director of Neurocritical Care, Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry
New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.
Clark S. Homan, M.D., MBA, FACEP
Department of Emergency Medicine at Mercy Medical Center in New York.
Dr. Douglas Katz, M.D.
Boston University Neurology Associates, Academic neurologist. Medical Director Brain Injury Programs, Braintree Rehab. Hospital, Braintree, MA.
Wlodzimierz Klonowski, Ph.D.
Head, Lab of Biosignal Analysis Fundamentals, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland
Dr. José León-Carrión, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuropsychology & Director of the Human Neuropsychology Laboratory at the University of Seville, Spain.
Director of the Research, Development and Innovation Department at the Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Seville, Spain.
Joel F. Lubar, Ph.D.
Co-director, Southeastern Biofeedback and Neurobehavioral Institute, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Allen Maniker, M.D.
Professor of Neurological Surgery, New Jersey Medical School.
Director of Neurotrauma, University Hospital.
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, NJ.
Catherine A. Mazzola, M.D.
Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Atlantic Health System. Director of the Craniofacial center at Atlantic Health System.
Joseph T. Morandi, D.O.
Physician, Private Physician Services, Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
Michael T. Murray, N.D.
Faculty member and Board of Regents member, Bastyr University, Seattle, WA.
Director of Product Development and Education for Natural Factors, a major manufacturer of nutritional and herbal supplements.
James A. Neubrander, M.D.
Director Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, Edison, NJ; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Theresa Louise-Bender Pape, Dr. PH
Clinical Neuroscientist with the Veterans Administration's Rehabilitation Research and Development Service
Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation
Clinical Research Associate with Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Illinois.
Claudio Perino, MD.
Physiatrist,
Presidio Ausiliatrice-Fondazione Don Gnocchi.
Gert Pfurtscheller, Ph.D.
Professor, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Director, The Institute for Knowledge Discovery
Head, Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interfaces.
Charles J. Prestigiacomo, M.D.
Co-director, Division of Neurological Surgery, Jersey City Medical Center. Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Radiology. Director of Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery, University Hospital
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, NJ.
Ljubisav Rakic, Ph.D.
Chairman of the Board, Committee for Biomedical Research. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Urs Ribary, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Barry Sears, Ph.D.
President, Zone Labs, Inc.
Dr. Derryck H. Smith, M.D. F.R.C.P. (C)
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. Member, Division of Child and Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatry, UBC. President, Medical Legal Society of British Columbia. Consultant, Life Mark, Brain Injury Program. Consultant, WorkSafeBC, Brain Injury. Urgent Assessment Clinic BC Children’s Hospital. Consultant to Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, Province of British Columbia. Consultant to Oak Group, Boston.
Robert W. Thatcher, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Examination Board for the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society; Boards of the American Board of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology and the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society.
Lynda Thompson, Ph.D.
Executive Director, The ADD Centre, Toronto.
Victor Zelek, Ph.D.
Director of Neuropsychology Service at Northeast Center for Special Care
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