2020 Speakers

Calum MacRae, MD PhD
Director, One Brave Idea
Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
 
Menachem Fromer, PhD
Data Science Group Leader for Mental Health, Verily (Google Life Sciences)
Associate Prof of Genetics/Genomics and Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
 
Neil Martin, MD
Regional Medical Director of Neuroscience, Providence Southern California
Director of Innovation and Quality, Pacific Neuroscience Institute

Anthony Asher, MD, FACS

President, Neuroscience Institute, Atrium Health

Founder and Director, National Quality and Outcomes Database

Founder and Co-Chairman, American Spine Registry

Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Carolinas Medical Center

 

Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD

Director, Cleveland Center for Health Outcomes Research Dept. of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences

Professor, Dept. of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case School of Medicine

Director, Research Health Analytics and Informatics, University Hospitals of Cleveland

 

Jason Sheehan, MD PhD

Co-Director, Lars Leksell Gamma Knife Center, University of Virginia

Professor of Neurological Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Virginia

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Neuro-Oncology

 

Laura Germine, PhD

Director, Laboratory for Brain and Cognitive Health Technology, McLean Hospital

Technical Director, McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

Michael Fox, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Raymond D. Adams Distinguished Chair in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

 

Mohamad Bydon, MD

Medical Director, Mayo Clinic Neurosurgical Registry

Principal investigator, Mayo Clinic Neuro-Informatics Laboratory

 

Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp, MD, MSc, PhD

Head, Spine Research, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Centre

 

Ciprian Crainiceanu, PhD

Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

 

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, PhD

Director, QTIM lab and the Center for Machine Learning, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Scientific Director, MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science

Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

 

Ayal Aizer, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School

 

Daniel Orringer, MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pathology, NYU

 

Kun-Hsing Yu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

 

Clemens Schirmer, MD PhD

Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience Institute, Geisinger

Director Geisinger Stroke Centers

 

Munmun De Choudhury, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

Director, Social Dynamics and Well-Being

 

Paul Bleicher, MD, PhD
Principal, ‎Evident Health Strategies
Former CEO, OptumLabs
 
Francesco Sala, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Verona
 
Faith Robertson, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
 
Jason Chen, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
 

Ben Johnston, MD, PhD

Brigham and Women's Hospital

 
Amin Zand Vakili, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Attending Psychiatrist, PVAMC
 
Sandi Lam, MD, MBA
Division Head of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
Professor and Vice Chair of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
 
Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD
Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Dept. of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor in Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 
Daniel Kelly, MD
Director, Pacific Neuroscience Institute
Director, Pacific Brain Tumor Center, Providence Saint John’s Health Center
Professor of Neurosurgery, John Wayne Cancer Institute
 
Elizabeth Claus, MD, PhD
Professor and Director of Medical Research, Yale University School of Public Health
Director of Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
 
John Ratliff, MD, FACS
Professor and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery, Stanford
Principle Investigator, Stanford Spine Outcomes Lab Research
 
Farrah Mateen, MD, PhD
Director, Global Health, Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Director, Multiple Sclerosis & Neuromyelitis Optica Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
 
Keith Ligon, MD, PhD
Chief of Neuropathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
 
Anand Veeragagu, MD
Director of Minimally Invasive NeuroSpine Surgery, Stanford
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford
 
Lola Chambless, MD, FAANS

Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

 

Amar Dhand, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Visiting Associate Professor, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University

 

Rifaquat M. Rahman, MD

Radiation Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

 

Rose Du, MD, PhD

Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

 

Ian Barnett, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

 

Marieke Broekman, MD, PhD, JD

Neurosurgeon, Haaglanden Medical Center and Leiden University Medical Center

 

Geoffrey Young, MD

Assistant Professor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Associate Neuroradiologist, Radiology, Brigham And Women's Hospital

 

Michael Ivan, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Miami

Co-Director of University of Miami Brain Tumor Initiative

 

Alberto Feletti, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Verona