Team
Current members
Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD
Head of Laboratory
Associate Professor of Neurology
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Clinical Training Faculty, Graduate School of Biological Sciences
Tel: (212) 241-0656
E-mail: kristina.simonyan@mssm.edu
Heather E. Alexander, BA
Associate Researcher
Tel: (212) 241-3759
E-mail: heather.alexander@mssm.edu
Melissa Choy, BA
Associate Researcher
Tel: (212) 241-1438
E-mail: melissa.choy@mssm.edy
Ian M. Farwell, MSG
Associate Researcher
Tel: (212) 241-8729
E-mail: ian.farwell@mssm.edu
Veena Kumar
Research Volunteer
Undergraduate Student at Columbia University
Tel: (212) 241-1438
E-mail: veena.kumar@mssm.edu
Amanda Pechman, BA
Associate Researcher
Tel: (212) 241-2635
E-mail: amanda.pechman@mssm.edu
Ritesh Ramdhani, MD
Movement Disorders Fellow
Tel: (212) 241-6559
E-mail: ritesh.ramdhani@mssm.edu
Former members
Arash Fazl, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Currently: Neurology Resident at Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY
Manjula Khubchandani, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jordan McHugh
2010 Summer Student for Intel Science Research
Intel Science Talent Search 2011 semifinalist
Currently: Undergraduate student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Collaborators
Brian Berman, MD, MS
Department of Neurology
University of Colorado, Denver, CO
Andrew Blitzer, MD, DDS, FACS
New York Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders, New York, NY
Steven Frucht, MD
The Robert and John M. Bendheim Parkinson and Movement Disorders Center
Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY
Mark Hallett, MD
Human Motor Control Section
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Barry Horwitz, PhD
Brain Imaging and Modeling Section
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Sandra B. Martin, MS
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Laurie Ozelius, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY
John J. Sidtis, PhD
Brain and Behavior Laboratory
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Oragenburg, NY