Biography
Suresh Kumar M.D. is Triple Board Certified Brain Injury Specialist, Neurologist & Director of Headaches, TBI & Memory Research Institute in Southern USA. He completed residency training in Neurology from LSU and later board certification in Headaches Medicine & Traumatic Brain Injury Medicine. He is User Interface Software Architect; Neuro Scientist & Clinician operating research based clinical practice. He has invented and patent rights owner of Life Integrated Cognitive Computerized Application (LICCA). His patients are undergoing online cognitive therapy for memory loss monitored from his own office Regain Memory Center. He has helped more than 50 patients with memory impairment after TBI, and mild to moderate dementia under Regain Memory 360 protocol approach.He has published and presented many abstracts and papers on diagnosis,treatment of mild traumatic brain injury and cognitive deficit.
Research Interest
TBI, Neurology , mild traumatic brain injury, late post-traumatic seizures, post-traumatic headaches,cognitive loss, plasticity and remediation.
Biography
Dr. Rosi is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Neurological Surgery; she is also the Director of Neurocognitive Research in the Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC). Her areas of expertise include neuroinflammation, brain injury and cognitive functions. She obtained her PhD from the University of Florence, Italy. After completing a short Post-Doctoral Training in Italy she moved to the University of Arizona for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate position in the Neural System Memory and Aging Center under the guidance of Drs. Carol Barnes and Gary Wenk. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2006 and she received an accelerated promotion to Associate Professor in 2011 and became Director of Neurocognitive Research. She has been able to build national and international recognition in the field of Neuroscience, and among her numerous achievements she recently received the Bridging the Gap Award from the California Institute for Quantitative Bioscience (2015) and was chosen to give the 2015 Discovery Talk at the upcoming UCSF Alumni Weekend.
Research Interest
Neuroinflammation Traumatic brain injury Therapeutic cranial irradiation and cognition Space irradiation and cognition Innate immune system and cognition Synaptic plasticity, hippocampal learning and memory Plasticity-related immediate early gene Arc (activity regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein) Tumor Necrosis Factor-(TNF-α), learning and memory Prefrontal cortex injury and cognitive functions
Biography
Robert Friedlander, MD, MA, became the fourth chair in the department’s history. Prior to joining the department, Dr. Friedlander was professor of neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and vice-chairman of neurosurgery and associate director of cerebrovascular surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Research Interest
Aneurysms, vascular malformations, brain tumors, carotid disease, cerebrovascular disease, Chiari malformation, spinal cord tumors. Research focuses on mechanisms of apoptosis, Huntington’s disease, ALS, and stroke.