Meet Our Team
The Nash Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics is an ecosystem of clinicians and researchers based on the 10th floor at Mount Sinai West. Our core team are members of various departments across the Mount Sinai Health System (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Radiology, Neuroscience) and collaborate closely with:

Amy Aloysi, MD, MPH
Collaborator
Chief, Geriatric Psychiatric Unit, The Mount Sinai Hospital
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, and Neurology

Benjamin Rapoport, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

Susan Bressman, MD
Collaborator
Mirken Family Chair and Professor of Neurology

Alexander Charney, MD, PhD
Collaborator
Director, Laboratory of Brain and Data Sciences,
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Genetics & Genomic Sciences
Alexander.Charney@mssm.edu

Ki Sueng Choi, PhD
Imaging Core Leader
Assistant Professor, Radiology, and Neurosurgery

Madeline Fields, MD
Collaborator
Co-Director, Mount Sinai Epilepsy Program
Associate Professor, Neurology

Martijn Figee, MD, PhD
Clinical Research Core Leader
Director, Mount Sinai Interventional Psychiatry Program
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience

Saadi Ghatan, MD
Collaborator
Chair, Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, and Pediatrics

Xiaosi Gu, PhD
Collaborator
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience
Computational Psychiatry

Fiona Gupta, MD
Faculty Team Member
Director, Movement Disorders Outreach Program
Assistant Professor, Neurology

Joohi Jimenez-Shahed, MD
Clinical Research Core Leader
Medical Director, Movement Disorders Neuromodulation and Brain Circuit Therapeutics
Associate Professor, Neurology (Movement Disorders), and Neurosurgery

Brian Kopell, MD
Clinical Research Core Leader
Director, Center for Neuromodulation
Professor, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neuroscience

Lara Marcuse, MD
Collaborator
Co-Director, Mount Sinai Epilepsy Program
Associate Professor, Neurology, and Neurophysiology

Helen S Mayberg, MD
Founding Director, C-ACT
Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience

James Murrough, MD
Collaborator
Director, Depression and Anxiety Center for Discovery and Treatment
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience

Shannon O'Neill, PhD
Faculty Team Member
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

Fedor Panov, MD
Collaborator
Director, Adult Epilepsy Surgery Program, Mount Sinai Health System
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery

Erin L Rich, MD, PhD
Collaborator
Director, Rich Lab, The Friedman Brain Institute
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience

Peter H Rudebeck, PhD
Collaborator
Director, Laboratory of Neurobiology of Emotion and Cognition
Associate Professor, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry

Ignacio Saez, PhD
Invasive electrophysiology core leader
Director, Saez lab
Professor, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery and Neurology

Allison C Waters, PhD
Electrophysiology Core Leader
Director, Waters Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience

Jake Young, MD, PhD
Collaborator
Assistant Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery
james.young@mssm.edu

Bobby Forestal, Research Coordinator

Elisa Xu, Research Coordinator

Jaimie Gowatsky, Research Coordinator

Steve Heisig, Data Scientist

Juna Khang, Research Assistant, Imaging

Lizbeth Nunez, Clinical Research Coordinator

Mosadoluwa (Dolu) Obatusin, Programmer Analyst

Sonia Olson, Research Coordinator

Laureen Pagan, Assistant Director

Samantha Pitts, Data Analyst

Andrew H. Smith, MD, PhD, Psychiatry Research Resident

Jungho Cha, Senior Scientist

Tanya Nauvel, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Jip de Bruin, Volunteer