Meet the Team
Principal Investigator (PI)
NIH Distinguished Investigator and Chief of Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch (ETPB) at the National Institute of Mental Health, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The George Washington University.
The Team
Our interdisciplinary team, spanning the fields of psychiatry, engineering, neuroscience, and psychology, has expertise in electric field modeling, device and coil design for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), cognitive neuroscience trials employing image-guided neuromodulation, and the translational development of novel treatments in preclinical models, healthy volunteers, and clinical populations.
Zhi-De Deng, Ph.D. - Staff Scientist, Director of the Computational Neurostimulation Research Program at the Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch
Bruce Luber, Ph.D. - Staff Scientist at the Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch
Lindsay M. Oberman, Ph.D. - Staff Scientist, Director, Developmental Clinical Neurophysiology and Neurostimulation Research at the Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch
William T. Regenold, MDCM - Medical Director of the Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch
Lysianne Beynel, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Subham Dey, Ph.D. - IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow
Sunday M. Francis, Ph.D. - Research Fellow
Tyler Torrico, MD - Clinical Fellow
Eesha Bharti, - BS in Neuroscience
IRTAs (Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award )
Neil Baker, IRTA
Aidan Wade, IRTA
Alumni
Melbaliz Velez Afanador
Kevin Akhlaghi, IRTA
William Altekruse, IRTA
Shriya Awasthi, IRTA
Nicholas Balderston, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
Cristina Abboud Chalhoub, IRTA
Moritz Dannhauer, PhD, Research Fellow
Ekaete Ekpo, IRTA
Shannon Exley, IRTA
Elyssa Feuer, IRTA
Brian Gindoff, MD, Special Volunteer
Hannah Gura, IRTA
Ethan Greenstein, IRTA
Sarah Hollingsworth Lisanby, Principal Investigator
Megan Hynd, IRTA
Miguel Jaime, IRTA
Eudora Jones, DNP, Staff
Ogeneitsega Janet Joseph, IRTA
Valerie Martinez-Kaigi, Ph.D., IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow
Shannon Liberty, Special Volunteer
Sahit Menon, MSRP Fellow
Fahad Mukhtar, MD, Clinical Fellow
Nadia Mustafa, IRTA
Michelle Noh, IRTA
Thomas Radman, Ph.D.
Conor Reid, MSRP Fellow
Zeynab Rezaee, Ph.D., Staff
Pei Robins, IRTA
Paul Rohde, IRTA
Aakash Sathappan, MD, Medical Fellow
Jeena Thomas
Caroline Ugoaru, IRTA
Eva Wiener, IRTA
Summer Interns
Rachel Noorani – 2022
Michael Dib – 2018
Eunice Chung – 2017
Alexandra Haiberstadt – 2017
Gabriela Asturias – 2016