Core Team

Ricardo Jorge
MD, Neuropsychiatry
Research Interest:
Neuropsychiatric complications of TBI, mechanisms of neurodegeneration in chronic TBI, neuroprotective interventions in brain injury, and neuroendoricrine alterations following brain injury

Audri Villalon
BS, Psychology
MPH Student
Research Interest:
TBI, environmental health, social determinants of health, neuroendocrine alterations, integrative health, translational research
Investigators/Collaborators

Melissa B. Jones
MD, Neuropsychiatry
Career Development Award
Research Interest:
Sleep disorders, biomarkers of neurodegeneration in chronic TBI, clinical trials

Lilian Dindo
PhD, Clinical Psychology
Research Interest:
Health services, rural health, reintegration, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Ruosha Li
PhD, Biostatistics
Research Interest:
Experimental designs, clinical trials, statistical analysis

Meghan Robinson
PhD, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interest:
Neuroimaging of chronic TBI, neurovascular alterations in chronic TBI, diffusion tensor imaging

Miguel A. Cruz
PhD, Biochemistry
Research Interest:
Experimental models of TBI, neuroinflammation, translational medicine

Andrew Pieper
MD, PhD Neuroscience
Research Interest:
Animal models and mechanisms of neurodegeneration in chronic TBI, neuroprotective interventions in chronic TBI

Arun Saini
MD, Pediatric Critical Care
MS, Epidemiology
Research Interest:
Blood Brain Barrier alterations in chronic TBI, neuroinflammation
Early Career InvestIgators

Malena Gimenez-Zapiola
MA, Clinical Psychology
Research Interest:
TBI, PTSD, clinical assessment and psychotherapeutic intervention development

Dakota Broadway
MA, Clinical Psychology
Research Interest:
Assessment and treatment of trauma and stress disorders

Gursimrat Bhatti
MD
Research Interest:
Neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging of chronic TBI, non-invasive brain stimulation in brain injury

Edwin Vazquez-Rosa
PhD, Biochemistry MOL Biology
Research Interest:
Animal models and mechanisms of neurodegeneration in chronic TBI, neuroprotective interventions

Hazem Shahin
MD, Psychiatry
Research Interest:
Microbiome alterations in chronic TBI, psychopathology in military TBI

Alexandra Price
M Ed, Psychology
Research Interest:
Immunology, biopsychosocial models of disease, polytrauma