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Emma Adair
Clinical Research Manager, Neurosurgery
Current Role at Stanford Emma manages the Neurology & Neurosurgery Clinical Trials Team consisting of 17 Clinical Research Coordinators conducting 70+ clinical trials in areas including: Device Neurosurgery, Functional Neurosurgery, Headache, Epilepsy, Neuroimmunology, Alzheimers/Memory Disorders, Parkinson's, Radiology, and Bio Banks.
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Maheen Mausoof Adamson
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) [Vapahcs], Neurosurgery
Bio Dr. Maheen Mausoof Adamson is the senior scientific research director for Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She is also the clinical associate professor of Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. Adamson completed her undergraduate degrees in neurobiology and women studies at the University of California, Irvine. She completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Southern California and a postdoctoral fellowship in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford School of Medicine.
Dr. Adamson’s expertise and interests span employing translational neuroscience methodologies for diagnostic and neuromodulation treatments (such as repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)) for frequent health problems in patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). She has employed advanced structural and functional imaging modalities and biomarker assessments in Veteran, active military and civilian populations with brain injury. She has been a leader in identifying gender differences in brain injury, particularly in the Veteran population. She currently serves as PI and Site-PI on numerous neuromodulation clinical trials under the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense funded grants.
Dr. Adamson has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on the cognitive and neural basis of Alzheimer’s disease and on a wide range of topics in TBI. She has received recognition in national and international settings. She is also intricately involved in mentoring research postdoctoral fellows and clinical residents in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery departments at Stanford Medical School. Her goal is to incorporate advanced treatment and diagnostics tailored to each patient's needs into standard-of-care to improve their daily function, reintegration into society and long-term rehabilitation after brain injury. -
Michelle Cheng
Sr Res Scientist-Basic Life, Neurosurgery
Current Role at Stanford I am a senior scientist in Dr. Gary's Steinberg's lab. I supervise several projects that use optogenetics, imaging techniques and next generation sequencing to study post-stroke neural circuit dynamics and recovery mechanisms. My main interests are to study how the brain recovers from injury at both the neural circuit and molecular level, and to develop strategies to promote the recovery process.
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Ricardo De Azevedo Pereira
Basic Life Res Scientist, Neurosurgery
Bio Ricardo Azevedo-Pereira has a B.S. in Biological Sciences and a Masters in Parasitology with focus on immunology and protein purification of Leishmania protozoan. He received his PhD at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where he investigated the role of cysteine proteases in differentiation of embryonic stem cells into neural cells. Additionally, he stablished a protocol to isolate human neural stem cells from adult patient with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy. During his PhD, he received a fellowship as visiting scholar to study the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells and iPS cells into photoreceptors cells at University of Washington, Seattle, under supervision of Dr. Thomas Reh. During his postdoc at Stanford in the Department of Dermatology, he investigated the mechanisms of hair follicle stem cells activation and hair growth by subcutaneous injection of laminin 511. At the Steinberg lab, he is now applying Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP), RNA sequencing and bioinformatic approaches to study the mechanism underlying stroke recovery after human neural stem cells transplantation. As a Research Scientist, he is involved in several projects including: neural stem cells secretome and brain plasticity by expression of perineuronal nets in different cortical layers in stroke models.
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Stephen Lawrence McKenna
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) [Scvmc], Neurosurgery Department
Bio Dr. Stephen McKenna is a founding member of the Stanford Partnership for Spinal Cord Injury and Repair. Dr. McKenna is the Chief of the Rehabilitation Trauma Center; as well as, the site director of the Advanced Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Fellowship at SCVMC.
As a Neurocritical Care physician, he specializes in ventilator dependent Spinal Cord and Traumatic Brain Injury; as well as, neuromuscular diseases. Dr. McKenna has practiced for more than 10 years and is an invited reviewer for the Journal Critical Care as well as Spinal Cord - Nature. He has led first-in-human clinical trials ranging from vaccines for HIV to stem cell derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cell based therapies for spinal cord injury.
Clinical Focus:
Spinal Cord Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury
Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Neuromyelitis Optica (Devic disease)
Professional Education:
Board Certification: Neurocritical Care, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (2008)
Board Certification: Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (2005)
Residency: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (2005) CA
Internship: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (2002) CA
Medical Education: Stanford University School of Medicine (2002) CA
Book Chapter:
Shah A, Shem K, McKenna SL, Berlly M. Management of Respiratory Failure in Spinal Cord Injury. Spinal Cord Medicine (Hardcover) by Steven, M.D. Kirshblum (Editor) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2011
Selected Publications:
Pulmonary outcomes following specialized respiratory management for acute cervical spinal cord injury: a retrospective analysis.
SPINAL CORD
Zakrasek EC, Nielson JL, Kosarchuk JJ3, Crew JD, Ferguson AR, McKenna SL
2017; Feb 21. PMID: 28220822
Dose Response Effect of Exposure to Hypotension on Expected Neurological Recovery in Individuals With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.
ARCHIVES OF PM&R
Reza, E., Stück, E., Endo, J., Isaac, L., Beattie, M., Ferguson, A. and McKenna, S.
2016: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2016.09.016
Combined SCI and TBI: recovery of forelimb function after unilateral cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is retarded by contralateral traumatic brain injury (TBI), and ipsilateral TBI balances the effects of SCI on paw placement.
EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY
Inoue T, Lin A, Ma X, McKenna SL, Creasey GH, Manley GT, Ferguson AR, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS.
2013 Oct 248: 136-47. PMID: 23770071
Functional electrical stimulation in spinal cord injury respiratory care.
TOPICS IN SPINAL CORD REHAB.
R Jarosz, M Littlepage, G Creasey, S McKenna
2012:Vol. 18, No. 4, 315-321. PMID: 23459661
Impact of mean arterial blood pressure during the first seven days post spinal cord injury.
TOPICS IN SPINAL CORD REHAB.
J Cohn, J Wright, S McKenna, T Bushnik
2010: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1310/sci1503-96
Successful Pregnancy and Delivery in a C1 ASIA A Spinal Cord Injured Woman: The Role of Coordinated Care Between PM&R and Obstetrics Services: A Case Report.
PM&R
Lin C, McKenna S, Shem K
2010: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmrj.2010.07.461
Pancreatic tumor motion on a single planning 4D-CT does not correlate with intrafraction tumor motion during treatment.
AM J CLIN ONCOL.
Minn A, Schellenberg D, Maxim P, Suh Y, McKenna S, Cox B, Dieterich S, Xing L, Graves E, Goodman K, Chang D, Koong A.
2009 Aug;32(4):364-8 PMID: 19398901
The impact of project closure on HIV incidence and mortality in a cohort of couples in Lusaka, Zambia.
AIDS CARE
Stephenson R, Shutes E, McKenna S, Allen S, Brill I, Kancheya N, Zulu I, Sinkala M, Tichacek A, Chomba E.
2008 Jul;20(6):683-91. PMID: 18576170
Rapid HIV testing and counseling for voluntary testing centers in Africa.
AIDS
McKenna SL, Muyinda GK, Roth D, Mwali M, Ng'andu N, Myrick A, Luo C, Priddy FH, Hall VM, von Lieven AA, Sabatino JR, Mark K, Allen SA.
1997 Sep;11 Suppl 1:S103-10. PMID: 9376093 -
Ryan Nitta
Sr Res Scientist-Basic Life, Neurosurgery
Current Role at Stanford The main project of the Li lab is to elucidate the signaling pathways responsible for maintaining and initiating brain tumor growth. Previously the Li lab has identified an interesting protein, known as casein kinase 2, which plays an integral role in adult brain tumor growth. My goal is to expand on this initial finding and determine if casein kinase 2 could be a therapeutically relevant drug target in adult brain tumors and whether this protein plays a role in pediatric brain tumors. The role of the candidate would be the lead researcher on these projects, as well as managing and leading the undergraduate and medical students in the lab. In addition, I am responsible for maintaining the laboratory and assisting in grant writing.
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Cynthia Harryman Samos
CIRM Project Manager, Neurosurgery
Current Role at Stanford Project Manager and Writer/Editor for the Department of Neurosurgery
