Group Members
Ashesh Mehta
Role: Founder and Co-Director of the Lab. Director of Neurological Epilepsy Surgery. Professor of Neurosurgery Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra and the Feinstein Institutes, Northwell Health.
Stephan Bickel
Role: Co-Director of the Lab. Attending Physician, Neurology/Epilepsy. Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Feinstein Institutes, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra, Northwell Health.
Sabina Gherman
Role: PostDoc with Stephan
Background: PhD Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Glasgow (Philiastides lab)
Max Nentwich
Role: PostDoc with Stephan
Background: PhD Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York (Parra Lab)
Christine Chesebrough
Role: PostDoc with Stephan
Background: PhD Drexel University (John Kounios, Lila Chrysikou Labs), MA Columbia U, BA Johns Hopkins
Elizabeth Espinal
Role: Postdoc at Medical University of South Carolina, Visiting Scholar at HBMLab
Background: PhD in Neuropsychology, Drexel University (mentor Lila Chrysikou, co-mentor Stephan), BA Queens College, NY
Akash Mishra
Role: MD PhD Student (Mentors-Stephan, Ash)
Background: BS, Hostra University, NY
Samruddhi Anikhindi
Role: Research Assistant
Background: MS Biomed. Engineering, Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA
Noah Markowitz
Role: Research Assistant HBMLab, Grad Student at BU College of Engineering
Sarah Johnson
Role: Research Assistant HBMLab
Background: BS Microbiology, Miami University
Jessica Weber
Role: Research Assistant HBMLab
Background: MSc Biomed. Engineering, University of Pittsburg
Joshua Assi
Role: Research Assistant with Jose
Background: BS Neuroscience, Biophysics, Brown University
Alumni
Jalen Winfield
Role in the lab: Research Assistant
After: Research Engineer at the Kessler Foundation
Gelana Tostaeva
Role in the lab: Research Assistant
After: Neuroscience Grad Student at Mt. Sinai
Elisabeth Freund
Role in the lab: Research Assistant
After: Neuroscience Grad Student at Bonn University
David Mikhael
Role in the lab: Research Assistant
After: Bioengineering Grad Student at UC Berkeley & UCSF
Serdar Akkol
Role in the lab: Elmezzi Grad Student (Mentor Stephan)
After: Neurology Resident at University of Alabama
Simon Khuvis
Role in the lab: MD PhD Student (Mentor Ash)
After: Psychiatry Resident at NYU
Noah Markowitz
Role in the lab: Research assistant
After: MS Student at Boston University
Elizabeth Espinal
Role in the lab: Research Coordinator
After: Neuro-psychology Grad Student at Drexel
Erin Yeagle
Role in the lab: Research Assistant
After: Med Student at Yale
Matthew Goldfinger
Role in the lab: Research Assistant
After: Med Student at NY Institute of Technology
Pierre Mégevand
Role in the lab: Postdoc (Mentor Ash)
After: Neurology resident University of Geneva
David Groppe
Role in the lab: Postdoc (Mentor Ash)
After: Software Engineer at Persyst
Stephan Bickel
Role in the lab: Postdoc (Mentor Ash)
After: Neurology resident Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Montefiore
Laszlo Entz
Role in the lab: Postdoc / visiting scientist (Mentor Ash)
After: Neurosurgery resident Budapest
Gad Klein
Role in the lab: Postdoc (Mentor Ash)
After: Clinical Neuropsychologist
Collaborators
Charles E. Schroeder, PhD - Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Noelle O’Connell, PhD - Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Simon Kelly, PhD - University College Dublin
Redmond O’Donnell, PhD - Trinity College Dublin
Sam Neymotin, PhD - Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Nima Mesgarani, PhD - Columbia University
Harly Greenberg, MD - Northwell Health
Avniel Ghuman, PhD - University of Pittsburgh
Bob Knight, MD - UC Berkeley
Jack Lin, MD - UC Davis
Administrative Support
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