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Core Faculty/Fellows

M.-Marsel Mesulam, MD

Director, CNADC
Ruth and Evelyn Dunbar Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
Marsel Mesulam MD is the Dunbar Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry and Director of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center. He received his BA and MD degrees at Harvard University. His research areas include behavioral neurology, the neural network approach to cognitive function, Alzheimer's disease, primary progressive aphasia, cholinergic pathways, functional neuroimaging, spatial attention, and neuroanatomy.
http://nuin.northwestern.edu/nuin-content/faculty-records/marsel-mesulam
www.nmff.org/findphysician/physician.asp?id=B76059
mmesulam@northwestern.edu

Eileen H. Bigio, MD

Professor of Pathology
Division of Neuropathology
Director of the Neuropathology Core of the Nortwestern Alzheimer's Disease Center, Dr. Bigio evaluates the pathology of all cases that come to autopsy and provides tissues and consultation to research investigators requesting such services from the Neuropathology Core. Areas of specific interest include frontotemporal degenerations and motor neuron disease, wth a current focus on the roles of morphologic abnormalities, such as ubiquitin and tau positive inclusions, in frontotemporal dementia, motor neuron disease-associated dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, variations in the pathology underlying primary progressive aphasia, and identification of the major protein component of the ubiquitinated deposits in FTD-MND. Dr. Bigio also collaborates with basic science investigators in evaluating the neuropathology of their mouse models of neurodegenerative disease.
e-bigio@northwestern.edu
http://www.northwestern.edu/nuin/fac/bigio.htm
http://www.ftd-picks.org/?p=news/200511_Grant

Beth Borosh, PhD

Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
(312) 503-7258
b-borosh@northwestern.edu

Tobias Egner, PhD

Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Egner’s research aims at understanding the neural mechanisms of ‘cognitive control’; the ability to implement goal-directed behavior and flexibly adapt to changing contingencies. As a model system, Dr. Egner investigates the regulation of visual attention in the face of various types of distraction, using functional magnetic resonance imaging as well as electroencephalography.
312-503-1836
t-egner@northwestern.edu
http://www.northwestern.edu/cnadc/egner/

Changiz Geula, PhD

Research Professor
Dr. Geula’s research interests include pathogenesis and neuronal vulnerability in neurodegenerative disorders, age-related changes which allow selective neuronal vulnerability in neurodegeneration and a systems approach to the functions of the cerebral cortex.
312-908-7210
c-geula@northwestern.edu

Darren R. Gitelman, MD

Associate Professor of Neurology and Radiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
http://www.northwestern.edu/nuin/fac/gitelman.htm
www.nmff.org/findphysician/physician.asp?id=F29191

Jay A. Gottfried, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
j-gottfried@northwestern.edu
http://www.northwestern.edu/nuin/fac/gottfried.htm

Robert Hanlon, PhD, ABPP

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Chief Neuropsychologist, Division of Psychiatry and Law
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
www.nmff.org/findphysician/physician.asp?id=R93681
http://www.clinpsych.northwestern.edu/htm/neuroserv.htm
http://www.clinpsych.northwestern.edu/htm/hanlonpub.htm

Nancy Johnson, PhD, ABPP-CN

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Data Core Director
675 N. St Clair, Galter 20-100
Chicago IL 60611
P: 312-695-4478
F: 312-695-6072
johnson-n@northwestern.edu
http://www.clinpsych.northwestern.edu/htm/neuroserv.htm
http://www.nmff.org/findphysician/physician.asp?id=S44284

Darby Morhardt, MSW, LCSW

Research Associate Professor
Director, Education
Clinical Research Social Worker
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Research interests include early stage and early onset dementia programs and services, the dynamics and functioning of caregiving families, the subjective experience of Alzheimer's disease, and primary care physician education. Darby holds a BSW from Loyola University of Chicago, an MSW from Jane Addams College of Social Work and postgraduate work in Family Therapy both from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
312-908-9432
Fax 312-908-8789
d-morhardt@northwestern.edu

Suzanne Musil, PhD

Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
312-503-4590
s-musil@northwestern.edu

Deborah A. Reed, MD

Director, Geriatric Psychiatry
Assistant Professor
Deborah A. Reed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Reed received her BA in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, her MD from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and her graduate training in Adult Psychiatry at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. She is the Division Director of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Her interests include the pharmacologic management of cognitive and behavioral syndromes in patients with dementia, attention deficit disorder and other neurologic conditions. She has been involved in clinical trials for patients with primary progressive aphasia at the CNADC and serves as Consulting Psychiatrist.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/depts/psychiatry/education/gme/geriatric.html

Sandra Weintraub, PhD

Board Certified in Clinical Neuropsychology, ABCN/ABPP
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
http://www.clinpsych.northwestern.edu/faculty/weintraub.htm
http://www.northwestern.edu/nuin/fac/weintraub.htm
http://www.clinpsych.northwestern.edu/htm/neuroserv.htm
www.nmff.org/findphysician/physician.asp?id=R90916

Chuang-Kuo Wu, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Dr. Chuang-Kuo Wu has earned the MD degree from China Medical University of Taiwan and completed his Ph.D. degree of behavioral neuroscience program of Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Wu is an ABPN board-certified neurologist and vascular neurologist. In addition to fellowship training of dementia/behavioral neurology, Dr. Wu is specialized in clinical trials of Alzheimer’s disease and associated dementia disorders. In collaboration with Professor Changiz Geula, Dr Wu is particularly involved in the research of neuroprotection and mechanisms of neuronal death of human basal forebrain cholinergic system.
312-503-1752
chuangwu@northwestern.edu

Adjunct Faculty:

 

Anna Nobre MA, PhD


Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology
Fellow, Tutor and Reader in Psychology
http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/Teaching_and_Research/Staff_Profile_Page.php?staffId=44
kia.nobre@new.ox.ac.uk

Fellows & Research Staff:

 

Ling Guo, MD

Senior Research Associate
312-908-8407
l-guo@northwestern.edu

Wen Li, PhD

Post-doctoral Fellow
Research - Dr. Gottfried's Lab
312-503-4238
wenli@northwestern.edu

Aprajita Mohanty, PhD

Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr. Mesulam's Lab
(312) 503-1155
a-mohanty@northwestern.edu
 

Jane Plailly, PhD

Post-doctoral Fellow
Research - Dr. Gottfried's Lab
312-503-1383
http://www.jane-plailly.net
j-plailly@northwestern.edu

Emily Trittschuh, PhD

Post-doctoral Fellow
312-503-1155
e-trittschuh@northwestern.edu

Alissa Wicklund, PhD

Research Neuropsychologist
(312) 908-8571
a-wicklund@md.northwestern.edu

CNADC Staff and Students

Center Administration:

 

Melanie Blaszak

Administration
312-908-9023
m-blaszak@northwestern.edu

Felecia Stokes

Administration
312-908-9339
f-stokes@northwestern.edu
 

Margaret Zonca, JD, MBA, MS

Business Administrator
312-908-9946
m-zonca@northwestern.edu

Clinic Administration:

 

Jackie Betti

Clinic Administration
312-695-9627
j-betti@northwestern.edu

Anthony Nowaske

Clinic Administration
312-695-9627
anthony.nowaske@nmff.org

Graduate Students:

 
 

Alaina Baker

Research – Dr. Geula’s Lab
alaina-baker@northwestern.edu
 

Jaimie Edelbrock

Hartford Geriatric Fellow, Darby Morhardt - Supervisor
312-503-1925
jedelbr@luc.edu

Rebecca Gavett

Research – WHI
312-503-1836
r-gavett@northwestern.edu
 

Robert Hurley

312-503-7258
hurley@northwestern.edu

Jennifer Medina

Research
312-908-7918
jmedina@northwestern.edu
 

Jason Osher

Research
jason-osher@northwestern.edu

Sreepadma Sonty

Research
312-908-9769
spsonty@northwestern.edu

CNADC Research & Staff:

 

James Howard

Research - Dr. Gottfried's Lab
312-503-4238
james-howard@northwestern.edu

Melissa Kahn, MA

Project Consultant
CNADC-Outreach@northwestern.edu
 

Mary McConnachie, LSW


312-503-0604
m-mcconnachie@northwestern.edu
 

Manjari Mishra, PhD

Neuroanatomy Lab
312-908-9222
manjari@northwestern.edu

Jim Monti

Searle 11-528
312-908-9935
j-monti@northwestern.edu
 

Charis Lauren Price

Frances Searle 3-380 - Evanston Campus
847-491-4171
charis-price@northwestern.edu

Nicole Ouellette

Research
312-695-2343
n-ouellette@northwestern.edu
 

Leah Weaver

Research
312-695-2343
l-weaver@northwestern.edu

Palak Shah

Research - Dr. Geula's Lab
312-908-8407
palak.shah@northwestern.edu

Christina Wieneke

Dr. Mesulam’s Lab
312-908-9681
c-wieneke@northwestern.edu

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