Faculty

Main Research Faculty

• Karen Hsiao Ashe, MD, PhD
  Professor, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience
  Edmund Wallace and Anne Marie Tulloch Chairs in Neurology and Neuroscience
  Director, N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care
• Kathleen Zahs, PhD 
  Associate Research Professor of Neurology and Physiology
  

Collaborating Faculty

• James Cleary, PhD
  GRECC (Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center),
  Minneapolis Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
  Behavioral psychology and pharmacology in Alzheimer rodent models.
• Derek Hook, PhD
  Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development
  Director, High Throughput Screening Core
• Dezhi Liao, PhD 
  Department of Neuroscience 
  Glutamate receptor physiology and plasticity in CNS disorders and disease.
• Kelvin Lim, MD
  Department of Psychiatry
  White matter microstructural analysis in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
• Eric Newman, PhD
  Department of Neuroscience 
  Glial cell physiology, Neuron-glial interactions.
• Michael Walters, PhD
  Institute for Therapeutics Discovery and Development
  Director, Lead and Probe Discovery:  Evaluation of active compounds from high-throughput screening for their potential as leads for drug discovery or probes of biochemical mechanisms.  Initial optimization of a lead compound's physical properties as it is developed into a potential drug.
• Carrie Wilmot, PhD
  Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
  Protein enzymes containing catalytic metal ions and/or post-translational modifications in human health and disease, with a focus upon macromolecular X-ray crystallography and spectroscopic techniques in crystal and in solution.
• LiLian Yuan, PhD
  Department of Neuroscience 
  Synaptic plasticity in health and disease, with a specific focus on intrinsic pathways within and connections between brain regions that are involved in learning and memory, such as hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex .  

Clinical Faculty

• J. Riley McCarten, MD
  Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
  Director, Memory Clinic, N. Bud Grossman Center for Memory Research and Care
• Susan Czapiewski, MD
  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
• Susan McPherson, PhD, ABPP, LP
  Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology
• Patricia Schaber, PhD, OTR/L
  Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy