MBI Director
Jennifer Bizon, Ph.D.
Director of the MBI; professor and chair of UF’s Department of Neuroscience; co-director of the Cognitive Aging And Memory Center (CAM); co-director of MBI’s Education and Outreach Committee

MBI Deputy Director
Steven T. DeKosky M.D.
Associate director of the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; Aerts-Cosper professor of Alzheimer’s Research

MBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Jada Lewis, Ph.D.
Co-director of MBI’s Education and Outreach Committee; professor of neuroscience

David Borchelt, Ph.D.
Director of the SantaFe Health Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center; professor of neuroscience

Sara Burke, Ph.D.
Co-director of UF’s Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory Clinical Translational Research; professor of neuroscience

Ronald Cohen, Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory Center (CAM); professor of clinical and health psychology, neurology and psychiatry

Catherine Flores, Ph.D.
Assistant professor in UF College of Medicine’s Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery; a principal investigator in UF’s Brain Tumor Immunotherapy Program

Brian L. Hoh, M.D., MBA
Chair of the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery; James Brigitte Marino Family professor

Michael S. Jaffee, M.D.
Chair and professor of neurology; director of the UF Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center

Matthew J. LaVoie, Ph.D.
Fixel Family Professor Of Neurology; co-director Center of Translational Research In Neurodegenerative Disease; associate chair for research in neurology

Carol Mathews, M.D.
Director of the Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders; Brooke professor and chair of psychiatry; co-director of the UF Tourette Center of Excellence; Interim director of the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment

Gordon Mitchell, Ph.D.
Director of the UF Center for Breathing Research and Therapeutics (BREATHE); professor of neuroscience and physical therapy

Kevin St.P. McNaught, Ph.D.
Chief operating officer of the McKnight Brain Institute

Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D.
Professor of psychiatry and psychology; director of the Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE); director of the Biobehavioral Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Michael Okun, M.D.
Professor and chair of Neurology; executive director of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health

Kevin Otto, Ph.D.
Professor and senior associate chair of biomedical engineering

Laura Ranum, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for NeuroGenetics; professor of molecular genetics and microbiology

Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics; a principal investigator of the ribonucleic acid engineering laboratory at the Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy

Barry Setlow, Ph.D.
Professor of psychiatry and neuroscience

Malú G. Tansey, Ph.D.
Fixel Family Professor Of Neurology; co-director of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease and the Parkinson’s Foundation Research Center

David Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
Professor and chair of applied physiology and kinesiology
