Our Team

• Joseph C. Masdeu, MD, PhD, Director, Principal Investigator
• Belen Pascual, BS, PhD, Co-Director, Principal Investigator
• Paolo Zanotti-Fregonara, MD, PhD, PET Core Director, Principal Investigator
• M. Samy Abdullah, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Victoria Arbones, RN, Research Coordinator
• Peter Cook, Academic Coordinator
• Katharine Dlouhy, Research Assistant
• Alireza Faridar, MD, Clinical Neurology
• Quentin Funk, BS, PhD, Programmer/Data Analyst
• Jennifer Garrett, RN, Research Coordinator
• Tierra Ledet, Psychometrician
• Rejani R Nair, RN, Research Coordinator
• M. Obadah Nakawah, MD, Clinical Neurology
• Elijah Rockers, BS, Programmer/Data Analyst 
• Muhammad H. Shahid, MD, Research Associate
• Madison Shyer, Research Intern
  
  

Local Collaborators

• Stanley H. Appel, MD, Director, Houston Methodist Neurological Institute
• David R. Beers, PhD, Neuroscientist
• Christof Karmonik, PhD, Director, Magnetic Resonance Imaging 
• Daniels Lee, MD, PhD, Director, PET Clinic
• Gustavo C. Roman, MD, DrHC, Jack S. Blanton Distinguished Endowed Chair, NNAC
• Bryan Spann, DO, PhD, Clinical Director, NNAC
• Meixiang Yu, PhD, Director, Cyclotron and Radiopharmaceutical Core
  
  

Distant Collaborators

• Brad C. Dickerson, MD, MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos, Boston, MA
• Nikos Makris, MD, PhD, MGH/HST Athinoula A. Martinos, Boston, MA
  
  

Lab Alumni

• Sahil Bajaj, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
• Jordan Ashcraft, BS, Research Assistant (Now in graduate school of med., Univ. of Florida)
• David Dalton, BS, Research Assistant (Now in graduate school of med., UT San Antonio)
• Nate Lee, BS, Research Assistant (Now in graduate school of medicine, Georgetown Univ.)
• Mark Hollenbeck, BS, Programmer / Data Analyst 
• Clarisa D. Ting, BS, Research Assistant
• Neha Pal, BS, (Now in graduate school of medicine, Texas A&M)
• Carolina Sirias, Undergraduate Student (Now in undergraduate school, UT Austin)