Brain Targeting Workshop - 2023 Participants

Dr. Buch is a neurosurgeon with fellowship training in epilepsy, functional, and minimally invasive neurosurgery. He is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery of Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Buch focuses his expertise on the open and minimally invasive treatment of epilepsy, low grade brain tumors, movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, facial and body pain syndromes, and other complex neurological conditions. He uses advanced and innovative techniques to treat both adult and pediatric patients.

G. Rees Cosgrove MD, FRCSC is the Director of Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has performed hundreds of radiofrequency lesions, DBS implants and MRgFUS procedures for patients with intractable tremor and Parkinson’s Disease.

 Dr. Eames runs the Focused Ultrasound Foundation’s General Awards Program – an investigator-initiated and peer-reviewed research funding track – and manages the peer review and funding process for the Foundation’s technical, preclinical, and clinical trial Awards Programs. His research experience in ultrasound physics and transducer design and modeling allows him to form collaborative relationships with members of the ultrasound industry and research communities who share a common interest in advancing the field of focused ultrasound. Dr. Eames earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Vanderbilt University and his PhD from the University of Virginia, both in Biomedical Engineering, and maintains an appointment at the University of Virginia Department of Radiology as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Research.

Residency training New York Hospital -Peter Bent Brigham- Children’s Hospital (Boston)
Faculty positions Harvard -University of Texas- University of Maryland
Current title RK Thompson Professor of Neurosurgery
Military LCDR US Navy
Current research interest FUS for movement disorders

Dr. Fishman is Clinical Professor of Neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. With basic science training from Yale University and clinical training from Johns Hopkins and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, his clinical and research interests include novel therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Fishman established Maryland’s program for neurotoxin treatment of movement disorders and is a co-founder of their Deep Brain Stimulation and Focused Ultrasound Surgery programs where he has been part of pivotal trials of FUS for Essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease. He is former Chief of Neurology for the VA Maryland Health Care System and former chair of the Parkinson’s Disease review group for VA Biomedical Research and past chair of the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board.

Dr. Gorby received her PhD from Stony Brook University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health (NIH/NIMH) before pursuing medical writing full-time. Heather has worked as a full-time freelance writer since 2013. She has written a variety of documents including clinical trial manuscripts, literature reviews, continuing medical education, and meeting summaries and white papers.

Charles Guttmann obtained his medical degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, followed by a post-graduate course in experimental medicine and biology at the same Institution. He obtained his medical doctorate with a thesis on the invasivity of glioblastoma in the central nervous system. Dr. Guttmann is the founding Director of the Center for Neurological Imaging (CNI) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He has over 30 years of experience in brain MRI research, with particular emphasis on neurological diseases. In his role as director of the CNI, he has assembled and directed multi-disciplinary teams of scientists on a variety of projects. He has extensive expertise at the interface between software development and its application to clinical research, and has published extensively on the validation of image analysis approaches. His team applies quantitative neuroimaging strategies to the study of neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS) cerebro-vascular diseases, and Alzheimer’s Disease, in addition to their work on lesion-symptom mapping of FUS-induced lesions. Dr. Guttmann has also spearheaded the development of informatics infrastructures in support of large-scale neuroimaging discovery research, including an image-centered, multi-disciplinary database and image analysis workflow management system, as well as – more recently – a virtual laboratory for collaborative neuroscience research.

Dr. Vibhor Krishna is a board-certified neurosurgeon with expertise in functional neurosurgery and neuromodulation. As a surgeon-scientist, he focuses on translational neuroimaging research with a goal to improve patient outcomes. This research aims to enhance neuromodulation’s effectiveness through personalized medicine, develop and optimize less-invasive neurosurgery, and test emerging surgical treatments in clinical trials. He has published over 60 research papers in prestigious journals like Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery, Movement Disorders, Pain, and JAMA Neurology.

Dr. Ying Meng, MD, is currently a resident physician in Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, having finished her undergraduate training with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto and medical training at McMaster University. She is currently getting her PhD at the University of Toronto. Dr. Meng has a passion for advancing technologies to improve patient care and outcomes, and this further grew with her exposure to focused ultrasound through the Focused Ultrasound Foundation

Head of Product, Neurosurgery (Insightec)

Frantz Poulsen, MD is a neurosurgeon, senior consultant, professor and head of research at Odense University Hospital and University of Southern Denmark. Main interests and research focus: minimal invasive surgery, optimal neurosurgical procedures, intracranial neoplasms, focused ultrasound.

Academic pursuits in the optimal diagnostics and therapeutic deliveries for tremor syndromes of any kind, while other efforts placed in quality of life innovations for other movement disorders.

Manojkumar Saranathan, PhD is an MRI physicist with over twenty-five years of experience in MR physics, pulse sequence development, image reconstruction, and image processing spanning industry (GE) and academia (Stanford, Mayo, UA). His current research interests are focused on ultra high-resolution imaging and segmentation of deep brain structures like thalamus and hippocampus and the specificity of their involvement in pathology such as alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and essential tremor. Another area of interest is high spatio-temporal resolution dynamic contrast enhanced MRI for quantification of physiologic function and cancer. One of his methods, DISCO, is now a product available on all GE MRI scanners since 2017, and is widely used for prostate and breast imaging worldwide.

Currently working on procedure planning products for image-guided therapy at Histosonics. The previous 12 years were spent directing the Focused Ultrasound Foundation’s brain technical program and developing the transcranial focused ultrasound simulation software, Kranion.

Jean-Francois Aubry, PhD
Physics for Medicine Paris
jean-francois.aubry@espci.fr

Kevin Chiu
BrainLab, Inc.
kevin.chiu@brainlab.com

Emmanuel Cuny, MD
RebrAin
emmanuel.cuny@rebrain.eu

Pierre D’Haese, PhD
West Virginia University, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute
pierre.dhaese@hsc.wvu.edu

Benjamin Davidson, MD
University of Toronto
benjamin.davidson@mail.utoronto.ca

Brad Fernald
Omniscient Neurotechnology
brad.fernald@o8t.com

Cyril Ferrer, PhD
INSIGHTEC, Ltd.
cyrilf@insightec.com

Wladyslaw Gedroyc, MBBS
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St. Mary’s Hospital
w.gedroyc@imperial.ac.uk

Clement Hamani, MD, PhD
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
clement.hamani@uhn.ca

Rick Hamilton
Focused Ultrasound Foundation
rickahamilton@gmail.com

Lucas Hernandez
BrainLab, Inc.
lucas.hernandez18@imperial.ac.uk

Andreas Horn, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
ahorn1@bwh.harvard.edu

Ayesha Jameel, MBBS
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St. Mary’s Hospital
ayesha.jameel@imperial.ac.uk

Michael Kaplitt, MD, PhD
New York-Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medical Center
mik2002@med.cornell.edu

Ashley King
ashley.king@turingmedical.com

Jan Klein
Fraunhofer-Institut für Digitale Medizin MEVIS
jan.klein@mevis.fraunhofer.de

Nir Lipsman, MD, PhD
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
nir.lipsman@utoronto.ca

Darlene Lobel, MD
Diann Shaddox Foundation for Essential Tremor
drdarlene.dsf@gmail.com

Jennifer McNab, PhD
Stanford University School of Medicine
mcnabj@standford.edu

Timothy Meakem, MD
Focused Ultrasound Foundation
tmeakem@fusfoundation.org

Stephen Morio
INSIGHTEC, Ltd.
StephenM@Insightec.com

Mazen Oweimrin, MSc
BrainLab, Inc.
mazen.oweimrin@brainlab.com

Frederic Padilla, PhD
Focused Ultrasound Foundation
fpadilla@fusfoundation.org

Anjaly Patel
BrainLab, Inc.
anjaly.patel@brainlab.com

Lauren Powlovich, MD
Focused Ultrasound Foundation
lpowlovich@fusfoundation.org

James Ridgwell
BrainLab, Inc.
james.ridgwell@brainlab.com

Nadia Scantlebury, PhD
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
nadia.scantlebury@sunnybrook.ca

Robert Schmidt
BrainLab, Inc.
robert.schmidt@brainlab.com

Bhavya Shah, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
bhavya.shah@utsouthwestern.edu

Megan Simmons
BrainLab, Inc.
megan.simmons@brainlab.com

Matteo Voleno
BrainLab, Inc.
matteo.voleno@brainlab.com

Kristina Vozni
INSIGHTEC, Ltd.
kristinav@insightec.com

Emily Whipple
Focused Ultrasound Foundation
ewhipple@fusfoundation.org

Emily White
Focused Ultrasound Foundation
ewhite@fusfoundation.org

Nejib Zemzeni, PhD
RebrAin
nejib.zemzemi@rebrain.eu

Lloyd Zucker, MD
Delray Medical Center
lloyd.zucker@gmail.com