Senior Leadership Team
Director
Jennifer L. Bizon, Ph.D.
Chief Operating Officer
Kevin S P McNaught, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Steven T. DeKosky, M.D.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
Gordon Mitchell, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Research Programs
Joe Abisambra, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Innovation
Ramon C. Sun, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION
Kate Casey-Sawicki
Senior Director of Development
Caitie Stewart
ASSociate DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
Todd Taylor
Communications
Web Manager & Digital COMMUNICATIONS Specialist
Jackie Hart
Science Writer
Michelle Jaffee
Operations
Administration
Administrative Specialist III
Melissa Cherry
administrative assistant II
Diane Garcia
Council of Neuromedicine Chairs
Brian L. Hoh, M.D., MBA
Chair of the Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery
Michael S. Jaffee, M.D.
Chair of neurology and director of the Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience Center
Carol Mathews, M.D.
Chair of psychiatry and director of the Center for OCD, Anxiety and Related Disorders
Center Leadership
Sara Burke, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory Clinical Translational Research
Roger Fillingim, Ph.D.
Director of the Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence
Matthew J. LaVoie, Ph.D.
Director of the Center of Translational Research In Neurodegenerative Disease
Duane Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D.
Co-Director of the Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy
Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Addiction Research and Education
Laura Ranum, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for NeuroGenetics
Glenn Smith, Ph.D.
Director of the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
David Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Exercise Science
