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Our Global Science Team, headed up by Posit Science co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Michael Merzenich, includes some of the world’s leading brain scientists. These experts contribute their knowledge to our developing efforts, giving us a depth of knowledge unsurpassed in the field.

Michael M. Merzenich, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

 
Scientific Advisory Board Clinical Collaborators

Merav Ahissar, Ph.D.,
The Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel

Karlene K. Ball, Ph.D.,
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL

Nataliya Belfor, Ph.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
San Francisco, CA

Morris Bell, Ph.D.,
Yale University,
New Haven, CT

Yoram Bonneh, Ph.D.,
University of Haifa,
Haifa, Israel

Nancy Byl, Ph.D.,
University of California at San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

Alice Cronin-Golomb, Ph.D.
Boston University,
Boston, MA

Thomas Elbert, Ph.D.,
University of Konstanz,
Konstanz, Germany

Richard Frackowiak, M.D., Ph.D.,
University College London,
London, United Kingdom

Charles Gilbert, Ph.D.,
Rockefeller University,
New York, NY

Riitta Hari, M.D., Ph.D.,
Helsinki University of Technology,
Espoo, Finland

Takao Hensch, Ph.D.,
Harvard University Center for Brain Science,
Cambridge, MA

Krzysztof Izdebski, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation
San Francisco, CA

William Jenkins, Ph.D.,
Scientific Learning Corporation,
Oakland, CA

Michael P. Kilgard, Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Dallas,
Dallas, TX

Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, Ph.D.,
University of Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany

Stephen Lisberger, Ph.D.,
University of California at San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

Zhong-Lin Lu, Ph.D.,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA

Steven L. Miller, Ph.D.,
Scientific Learning Corporation,
Oakland, CA

Athanassios Protopapas, Ph.D.,
Institute for Language and Speech Processing,
Athens, Greece

Christopher Randolph, Ph.D.,
Loyola University,
Chicago, IL

Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Ph.D.,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Roenker, Ph.D.,
Western Kentucky University,
Bowling Green, KY

Ronald Ruff, Ph.D.,
University of California at San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

Timothy Schallert, Ph.D.,
University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX

Wolfram Schultz, M.D.,
Cambridge University, Cambridge,
United Kingdom

Barry Stein, Ph.D.,
Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, NC

Mriganka Sur, Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA

Paula Tallal, Ph.D.,
Rutgers University,
Newark, NJ

Erik Viirre, M.D., Ph.D.,
University of California at San Diego,
La Jolla, CA

Xiaoqin Wang, Ph.D.,
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD

John "Jack" Werner, Ph.D.,
University of California at Davis,
Davis, CA

Bruce Wexler, M.D.,
Yale University,
New Haven, CT

Deborah Barnes, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Morris Bell, Ph.D.
Yale University, Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Jimmy Choi, Psy.D.
Yale University, Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Donald Davidoff, Ph.D.
Harvard University, McLean Hospital
Cambridge, MA

Charles DeCarli, M.D.
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA

Jerri Edwards, Ph.D.
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Jim Ellison, M.D.
Harvard University, McLean Hospital
Cambridge, MA

John Gabrieli, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Adam Gazzaley, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Teri Henderson, M.S.W.
University of Toronto, Gilda’s Club Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Joel Kramer, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Scott Makeig, Ph.D.
University of California at San Diego             
San Diego, CA

T.J. McCallum, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Synthia Mellon, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Thomas Novak, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Bruce Reed, Ph.D.
University of California at Davis, VA Northern California Health Care System
Davis, CA

Allyson Rosen, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Greg Simpson, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Glenn E. Smith, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Sophia Vinogradov, M.D.
San Francisco VA Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

Bruce Wexler, M.D.
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Owen Wolkowitz, M.D.
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Kristine Yaffe, M.D.
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco VA Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

Elizabeth Zelinski, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA