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Anas Elsaid, M.D.
Medical Scientist
James Heida, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Manjit Sanghera, Ph.D.
Director, Human Neurophysiology Lab
Lee Shapiro, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Kun Zhang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Dr. Anas Elsaid is a medical scientist in the neuromodulation laboratory at the Neuroscience Institute at Scott & White.
Dr. Elsaid received his medical degree from Ain Shams University in Egypt then received a master's degree in clinical pharmacology from Minia University in Egypt. After receiving his degrees, Dr. Elsaid completed a research fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where he was also a resident in psychiatry.
His research interests include using image-guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation system for targeting and modulating the altered brain activity in neuropsychiatric disorders.
Dr. James Heida is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Neuroscience Institute at Scott & White. He also holds the same appointment at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Dr. Heida received his Bachelor of Science degree in Behavioural Neuroscience from Laurentian University, Sudbury Ontario, Canada. He then received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Calgary, Alberta Canada. He then went on to do his initial postdoctoral training in developmental epilepsy at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.
Dr. Heida's research interests include seizures and epilepsy, specifically pediatric seizures and their effects on development and future seizures. Other areas of interest include neuro-inflammation, neurophysiology, neurodegeneration, and neurological disorders and diseases.
Dr. Jongil Lim is a postdoctoral research associate at the Neuroscience Institute at Scott & White and Texas A&M Health Science Center.
Dr. Lim received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from Inha University in Inchon, South Korea. He then received a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Texas A&M University in College Station, where also he obtained his Ph.D. for computational modeling and analysis of thin ion channels.
His interests include computational modeling of deep brain stimulation, neural decoding for brain machine interface and nonlinear fractal spike modeling and analysis.
Dr. Jennifer Robinson is the Director of Neuroimaging at the Neuroscience Institute at Scott & White. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at Texas A&M's Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Dr. Robinson received her Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry and psychology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, where she also received a Master of Arts and her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology. She then pursued a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in psychiatric neuroimaging.
Dr. Robinson has established an active research career examining emotion regulation and processing and more recently has focused her efforts on affective circuitry within psychiatric and movement disorder populations. Additionally, she is interested in autonomic physiology, deep brain stimulation, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. Read more »
Dr. Russell Sanchez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Texas A&M Health Science Center, and is acting Director of the Division of Translational Neuroscience Research at the Scott & White Neuroscience Institute.
Dr. Sanchez received his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin. He then earned his Ph.D. in Neural Science from New York University and received postdoctoral research training in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.
Dr. Sanchez has established an active research program in the study of neurologic consequences of neonatal hypoxic encephalopathy and early life seizures. His published and continuing research has been funded by the Epilepsy Foundation of America, American Heart Association and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). He also has served in a scientific advisory capacity for the Epilepsy Foundation and Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) and on numerous professional committees for the American Epilepsy Society and NINDS.
Dr. Manjit K. Sanghera is the Director of the Human Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Neuroscience Institute at Scott & White and is an Assistant Professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
She received her Ph.D. degree in physiology from Birmingham University Medical School, Birmingham, England, with a grant from the Medical Research Council of Great Britain. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University, Oxford, England.
Dr. Sanghera specializes in neurophysiologial mapping to treat Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis and dystonia. Her current research interest is the underlying mechanisms of the pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Lee Shapiro is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M College of Medicine in the Department of Surgery and at Scott & White Hospital, in the Neuroscience Institute.
Dr. Shapiro received his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from The University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, with a specialty in Biopsychology. He subsequently received a Masters degree in Biopsychology and a doctoral degree in Neuroscience, at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Dr. Shapiro has established an active research career examining neuroplastic changes in several disease models such as Down Syndrome, Alzheimer's Disease and Epilepsy. Most recently, Dr. Shapiro has been involved in elucidating the migration and differentiation of endogenous stem cells in adult brains and how they contribute to aberrant circuitry in epilepsy. His accomplishments have been recognized by several organizations, where he has given invited talks on his recently published articles at numerous international meetings.
Dr. Kun Zhang is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Neuroscience Institute at Scott & White and the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Dr. Zhang received his medical degree from Tianjin Medical University in Tianjin, China. He then received his Ph.D. in physiology and biophysics from the University of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha.
Dr. Zhang's areas of interest include characterizing and understanding alterations of the neural circuitries in the brain and the impacts of these changes on development of epilepsy using electrophysiology techniques.
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