Lucia M. Vaina
Professor,
Biomedical Engineering Boston University College of Engineering
United States
Biography
Lucia-Maria Vaina combines psychophysics, multimodal neuroimaging (fMRI and MEG), and computational modeling to study plasticity and the spatiotemporal orchestration of the visually eloquent system in humans. She trained first in mathematics&applied mathematics, and received her first PhD from the Sorbonne, in 1977, she underwent postdoctoral training at Berkeley (with Lotfi Zadeh) , Stanford (with Patrick Suppes) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Marvin Minsky), before getting her MDPhD at the University of Toulouse, and training in neurology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston under Norman Geshwind and at the Boston VA under Harold Goodglass. Dr. Vaina is currently Professor of Neurology, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at Boston University and on the faculty faculty at Harvard Medical School, Departments of Neurology&Radiology. She is Director of Brain and Vision Laboratory (BRAVI) (http://www.bu.edu/bravi/) at Boston University and co-director of the Neurology of Vision Laboratory (NOVI) at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard medical School.She worked at New England Rehabilitation Hospital, Young Stroke Unit and Brain Injury Unit , until 1997 when she moved to Massachusetts General Hospital-Neurology Department & Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She has served as expert witness defending Brain Injury patients with acquired cognitive and perceptual deficits.
Research Interest
Dr. Vaina main areas of current interest involve: (a) models of visual motion analysis in the human brain based on computational, psychophysical, structural and functional-neuroanatomical methods; (b) functional plasticity-learning and neurocovery: physchophysics, functional neuroimaging and neuronal network models; (c) Functional MRI of the human visual system.
Tang Wai Kwong
Professor,
Department of Psychiatry The Chinese University
Hong kong
Biography
Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. Professor Tang completed his medical training at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an academic staff since 1999. His main research area is Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interest
His main research areas are Neuropsychiatry in Stroke, Substance abuse, Postnatal depression, dementia, cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety, apathy, fatigue, emotional incontinence, suicidality, insomnia, pain, and quality of life. Other research areas include psychiatric morbidity in Pneumoconiosis and Parkinson’s disease, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Schizophrenia and Psychogeriatrics
Mohammad Nazrul Hossain
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College,
Bangladesh
Biography
Mohammad Nazrul Hossain, passed MBBS from Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2000. He got his fellowship in Neurosurgery from Bangladesh College of Physician and Surgeons (BCPS) in 2012.He was the first fellow in his subject from BCPS.His study was acknowledged by the BCPS and published in their journal. After successful completion of his fellowship he joined and worked in a world renowned chain hospital “APOLLOâ€, Dhaka, Bangladesh as neurosurgeon. During his neurosurgical carrier he worked with famous neurosurgeons of both national and international level. He joined “Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and Hospital†from Apollo in 2013 and established a fully new Neurosurgery department and serving the people of this area with their satisfaction.
Research Interest
Neurosurgery,
