Neuro-Rehab Lab Team

Principal Investigators

Professor of Neurosurgery
Director of Brain Injury
Stanford Department of Neurosurgery

Deputy Chief of Staff, Rehabilitation
Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System

Board Director, Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research

Site Principal Investigator, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
 

Senior Research Scientist, Polytrauma System of Care

Associate Director of Neuroimaging, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford School of Medicine

Senior Scientific Research Director for DVBIC, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System

Co-Chair, CA Dept. of Rehab TBI Advisory Committee

Lab Team Members

Molly Timmerman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated)[VAPAHCS], Orthopaedic Surgery - Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine

Nytzia Licona, MPH, CCTDM
Clinical Research Program Coordinator, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Xiaojian Kang, PhD, 
MR Physicist, Neurosurgery [Affiliated], Stanford University 

Jessica Huckabay, MPH
TBI Regional Education Coordinator for northern California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center

Harlene Grewal
Stanford University School of Medicine

Pawan Galhotra
Program Director, Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center, Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center, and Stroke Specialty Program at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Heath Care System

Esmeralda Madrigal
Program Director, Polytrauma Network Site, VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Joyce Chung, PhD
Site Director for VA Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems, and Program Analyst/Researcher for Polytrauma System of Care and Rehabilitation Services, VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Deeksha Ahuja, MPH
Business Manager, Rehabilitation Service, Interim Program Director, Polytrauma Transitional Rehabilitation Program, VA Palo Alto

Jeffrey Teraoka, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine

Kamala Rodrigues, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor (Affiliated) [VAPAHCS], Neurology

Collaborators

Tene A. Cage, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine

Joy L. Taylor, PhD
Clinical Professor (Affiliated) [VAPAHCS], Psych/General Psychiatry and Psychology (Adult)

Students

John P. Coetzee, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine

Ryan C. Thompson, MEd, NCC
Student Volunteer
PhD student, Clinical Psychology, Palo Alto University