Krishnankutty (Krish) Sathian, MD, PhD, FANA
CURRICULUM VITAE (RevisedJune 25, 2015)
1.NAME:Krishnankutty (Krish) Sathian
2.OFFICE ADDRESS:
Department of Neurology, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine
101 Woodruff Circle, WMRB-6000, Atlanta, GA 30322
Tel: (404) 727-1366
Fax: (404) 727-3157
3.E-MAIL ADDRESS:
4.BIRTHPLACE:Madras, India
5.CITIZENSHIP:US
6.CURRENT TITLES AND AFFILIATIONS:
a.Academic appointments: EmoryUniversity, Atlanta, GA
Primary:2006-Professor of Neurology with tenure, School of Medicine
Joint:1994- Faculty member, Neuroscience Program, Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2001-Faculty member, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
2006-Faculty member, Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
2006-Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine
2006-Professor of Psychology, EmoryCollege
b.Administrative appointments
1995-9Medical Director, Emory Program in Restorative Neurology (PROREN)
2000-1Associate Director, Advanced ImagingResearchCenter, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine
2005-Director, Neurorehabilitation Program, Department of Neurology, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine
2005-9Medical Director, RehabilitationResearch & DevelopmentCenter of Excellence, Atlanta VAMC
2009-Medical Director, Center for Systems Imaging, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine
2009-11Interim Director, RehabilitationResearch & DevelopmentCenter of Excellence, Atlanta VAMC
2011-Executive Director, Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of Excellence, Atlanta VAMC
7.PREVIOUS ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:
1983-1986Laboratory Demonstrator and Tutor in Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
1983-1986Tutor in Neuroscience, NewmanCollege, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
1994-9Assistant Professor of Neurology, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
1998-9 Joint Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
1999-2006Associate Professor of Neurology with tenure, EmoryUniversitySchool of
Medicine, Atlanta, GA
1999-2006Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
8.LICENSURES/BOARDS: 1994-Georgia
1996Board Certified in Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Recertified 2006 (valid through December 2016)
9.EDUCATION:
College:1972-1973Loyola College, Madras, India
MedicalSchool:1973-1978M.B.B.S. (equivalent to M.D.), Universityof Madrasat
ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India
GraduateSchool:1983-1987Ph.D., The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Thesis Title: Tactile Perception of Texture
Advisors:Ian Darian-Smith, MD, Antony Goodwin, PhD
10.POSTGRADUATE TRAINING:
Clinical:
1979Intern, ChristianMedicalCollegeHospital, Vellore, India
1990-1991 Intern in Medicine, GrantHospital, Chicago, IL
1991-1994 Resident in Neurology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL
Research:
1980-1983Research Fellow, Department of Neurological Sciences,
ChristianMedicalCollegeHospital, Vellore, India
Supervisor:(late) Marcus Devanandan, MBBS, PhD
1987-1990 Research Associate, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, WashingtonUniversitySchool of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Supervisor:Harold Burton, PhD
Administrative:
2008-9Academic Leadership Program, EmoryUniversity
- COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS:
Departmental (Department of Neurology):
1994-2000Residency Education Committee
1994-7Computer Committee
2000-Space Committee
2001-3Information Technology Advisory Group
2001-9Chairman, Space Committee
2004-5Faculty Development Committee
2005-Appointments and Promotions Committee
2006-7Research Logistics Committee
Institutional: (all at EmoryUniversity)
1995Admissions Committee, Neuroscience Program
2000-1 Search Committee for Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Functional Neuro-Imaging
2001-3 PET Research Committee
2001-MRI Research Committee
2002, 2005Examining Committee, Neuroscience Program
2003-9Executive Committee, Neuroscience Program
2003-Curriculum Committee, Neuroscience Program
2004-5Search Committee for Director, Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
2005-6Search Committee for Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
2006-7Research Subcommittee, Information Technology Steering Committee
2006-8Research Advisory Committee, School of Medicine
2007Search Committee for Director of Information Technology, School of Medicine
2007Search Committee for Director of Neuroradiology, School of Medicine
2012Task force for consolidation of the Biomedical Imaging Technology Center and the Center for Systems Imaging, School of Medicine
2012-Member, Advisory Board, Center for Mind, Brain and Culture (CMBC), Emory College
2012-Member, Executive Board, Facility for Education and Research in Neuroscience (FERN), Emory College
National:
2005Member, Long-Range Planning Committee and Chair, Subcommittee on Training, American Society for Neurorehabilitation (ASNR)
2005-8Member, Program Committee, ASNR Annual Meeting
10/2006 - 10/2008Chair, Program Committee, ASNR Annual Meeting
10/2007-Member, Board of Directors, ASNR
10/2008 –10/2010Secretary/Treasurer, ASNR
10/2010 – 10/2012Vice-President, ASNR
10/2012 – 11/2014President, ASNR
12/2010 – 10/2011Co-Chair, Low Vision and Blindness Rehabilitation Panel, National Eye Institute Strategic Planning
2011-Vice-Chair, Neural Repair and Rehabilitation Examination Committee, United Council of Neurologic Specialties
International:
2005Member, Conference Committee, International Multisensory Research Forum 6th annual meeting (Rovereto, Italy, June 2005)
2006Member, Conference Committee, International Multisensory Research Forum 7th annual meeting (Dublin, Ireland, June 2006)
2007Member, Conference Committee, International Multisensory Research Forum 8th annual meeting (Sydney, Australia, July 2007)
2009-10Member, Conference Committee, International Multisensory Research Forum 11th annual meeting (Liverpool, UK, July 2010)
2012-13 Member, Conference Committee, International Multisensory Research Forum 14th annual meeting (Jerusalem, Israel, June 2013)
- PEER REVIEW ACTIVITIES:
Editorial Board member:
2005-11Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience
2007-Reviewing Editor, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
2010- Associate Editor, Neuroscience Letters
2012-Academic Editor, PLoS ONE
2013-Associate Editor, Journal of Neuroscience
Section Editor, Multisensory Approaches to Rehabilitative Strategies, In The New Multisensory Handbook, ed. B.E. Stein, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012.
Manuscript review for journals and books:
Acta Psychologica (2006-)
American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience Journal (2009)
Annals of Neurology (2005- )
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2002)
BehavioralBrain Research (2012)
BMC Neuroscience (2002, 2006)
Brain (2009-)
Brain & Cognition (2015- )
Brain Research (2000- )
Brain Research Reviews (2005-)
Brain Topography (2009-)
Cerebral Cortex (1994- )
Clinical Neurophysiology (2005-)
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience (2004)
CognitiveBrain Research (2004-5)
Cortex (2004)
Current Biology (2007- )
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2005)
European Journal of Neuroscience (1998- )
Experimental Brain Research (2002- )
Experimental Neurology (2004)
Frontiers in Bioscience (1999)
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2014)
Frontiers in Neuroprosthetics (2010)
Handbook of Multisensory Integration (2003)
Human Brain Mapping (1999- )
IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering (1995-)
International Journal of Psychophysiology (2002)
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2010- )
Journal of Comparative Neurology (2004)
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (2003- )
Journal of Neurophysiology (1997- )
Journal of Neuroscience (1997- )
Journal of Physiology (London) (2004)
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2003)
Memory & Cognition (2002)
Nature (2004)
Nature Communications (2012-)
Nature Neuroscience (2002- )
Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2003- )
Neurocase (2005-)
NeuroImage (2001- )
NeuroImage:Clinical (2015- )
Neurology (1996- )
Neurological Sciences (2013)
Neuron (2003- )
Neuropsychologia (2005-)
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (2006- )
NeuroReport (2003- )
Neuroscience Letters (2000- )
Perception (2003- )
Perception and Psychophysics (1998- )
PLoS Biology (2007- )
PLoS ONE (2010- )
Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences of the USA (2007-)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2014)
Psychological Science (2013)
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (2002-)
Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience (2005- )
Somatosensory & Motor Research (1994 - )
The Neurologist (1998)
Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2014- )
Vision Research (2000- )
Proposal review:
Austrian Science Fund, 2103
College of Reviewers member, Canada Research Chairs, 2006-
College of Reviewers member, CSR, 2010-
Department of Defense Review Panels, 2008, 2010, 2013 (Chair)
Human Frontiers Science Program, 2006
Medical Research Council (UK), 2005
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, British Columbia, Canada, 2005
National Science Foundation external reviewer, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2011
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2003, 2005
NCRR external reviewer, 2002
NCRR COBRE Review Panel, 2005
NEI Career and Research Grants Applications panel, 2004
NEI Clinical Trials Review panel, 2012
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 2003
NIA Special Emphasis panel, 2009
NIMH external reviewer, 2001
NIMH Basic Neuroscience Conte Centers, 2006
NIH Auditory Study Section external reviewer, 2007
NIH Cognition and Perception Study Section ad hoc member, 2012
NIH Cognition and Perception Study Section chartered member, 2013-2017
NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Study Section ad hoc member, 2004
NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Study Sectionchartered member, 2004-9
NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Study Section Chair, 2008-9
NIH (NICHD - NCMRR) FIRS Subcommittee chartered member, 2009-2011
NIH Special Emphasis Panel AED/IAM, 2009, 2011, 2013
NIH Vision B Study Section external reviewer, 2001
NINDS R25 study section, 2009, 2011
Singapore National Medical Research Council, 2004
SoutheastCenter of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, 1999, 2000, 2002
Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research panels, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015 (Chair, Career Development Panel, 2011 March)
Wellcome Trust, 2000
Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, 2009
Other:
Abstract reviewer, AmericanAcademy of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology), 2002
Abstract reviewer, international Human Brain Mapping meeting, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
13. HONORS AND AWARDS:
1972Dr. B. Ramamurthi Gold Medal, Valedictorian, DonBoscoMatriculationSchool, Madras, India
1973Gold Medal in Pre-University Course Physics, LoyolaCollege, Madras, India
1973National Science Talent Scholar, India
1974Prize in Biology, ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India
1977Dr. P. Kutumbiah Prize in Medicine, ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India
1977Capt. Jaising Jadhav Prize in Pediatrics, ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India
1977Florence Nichols Prize in Psychiatry, ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India
1977Dr. J.C. David Gold Medal in Pharmacology, ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India
1979Mrs. M. David Gold Medal, Valedictorian, ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India
1979Indian Council of Medical Research Fellow
1981-1983Fellow of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
1984-1987Sir MacFarlane Burnet Biomedical Research Scholar, Victoria, Australia
1987Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith Award, Australian Neuroscience Society, for best critical essay by a graduate student
1994Fellow, McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
2000Life Member, National Registry of Who’s Who
2001Albert E. Levy Faculty Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, EmoryUniversity
2001Elected to the American Neurological Association
2008Selected as participant in Academic Leadership Program 2008-9, Emory University
2012Fellow, American Neurological Association
2015Member, Faculty of 1000 (F1000), Section on Neurorehabilitation
14.SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:
1985-Society for Neuroscience
1993-AmericanAcademy of Neurology
1995-American Society of Neurorehabilitation
1995-2004Cognitive Neuroscience Society
1998-2003American Association for the Advancement of Science
2001-American Neurological Association
2000-Organization for Human Brain Mapping
1996-International Multisensory Research Forum
15.RESEARCH FOCUS:
- Multisensory perception, its neural basis and implications for neurorehabilitation
- Neurorehabilitation, particularly of cognitive deficits
- Neural basis of metaphor
16.GRANT SUPPORT:
a. Active:
R01 Research Grant, NEI (PI: K. Sathian)2/1/99 – 3/31/16
Title: Cross-modal interactions in vision and touch.
Role: Principal Investigator.
Direct Costs:$1,231,566 (current cycle, 4/1/11 – 3/31/16)
NSF Research Grant(PI: K. Sathian) 9/1/11 – 8/31/15
Title:The neural basis of metaphor.
Role: Principal Investigator.
Direct Costs:$ 413,358
R01 Research Grant, NEI (PI: L. Merabet) 2/1/15 – 1/31/19
Subcontract to Emory University from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Title: Audio-haptic virtual environments for large-scale navigation in the blind
Role: Subcontract PI
ADC: $25,000
R25 Research Education Grant, NINDS (PIs: K. Sathian, N. Oyesiku) 3/1/09 – 6/30/2019
Title: Mentoring Emory Neuroclinician Trainees in Research (MENTIR)
Direct Costs current yr: $73,397
NIH, Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (5/1/10 – 4/30/15) (PI: Levey)
Project 1: Comparison of memory rehabilitation techniques in mild cognitive impairment (PI: Hampstead).
Role: Co-Investigator.
Goals: Behavioral and neural studies of memory rehabilitation in MCI patients.
Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Program Center Grant
10/1/2012 – 9/30/2017 C9246C
Role: Principal Investigator (since 11/09).
Title: AtlantaVACenter of Excellence for Rehabilitation of Aging Veterans with Vision Loss
Direct Costs:$4,500,000
Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Program, Small Projects in Research (SPiRE Award) (10/1/13 – 9/30/15) (PI: Hampstead) 1I21RX001381
Enhancing spatial navigation using non-invasive brain stimulation.
Role: Co-Investigator.
Total costs: $198,473
Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Program Merit Review(5/1/14 – 4/30/18) (PI: Hampstead) 1I01RX001534-01
Promoting adaptive neuroplasticity in mild cognitive impairment
Role: Co-Investigator.
Total costs: $1,100,000
b. Previous:
Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Program Merit Review
5/1/09 – 4/30/13.
Title:Memory rehabilitation of patients with mild cognitive impairment.
Role: Principal Investigator.
Direct Costs:$750,000
K24 Mid-Career Investigator Award, NEI(PI: K. Sathian) 4/1/06 – 3/31/12
Title:Perceptual plasticity-based neurorehabilitation.
Role: Principal Investigator.
Direct Costs: $815,361
P01 Research Grant, NINDS (Program Director: K. Sathian) 12/1/98 – 11/30/05
PPG Title:Functional mapping of normal and Parkinsonian basal ganglia.
Direct Costs: $3,277,278
Project Title:Sensory processing in Parkinson’s disease (PI: K. Sathian)
Direct Costs:$966,106
R29 Research Grant, NINDS (PI: K. Sathian) 5/1/95 – 4/30/01
Title:Neural plasticity in tactile texture perception.
Direct Costs: $391,987
Multi-Center Research Grant, NCMRR (PI: S.Wolf) 5.1.00 – 3.31.05
Title: Extremity Constraint Induced Therapy Evaluation (EXCITE) Trial.
Direct Costs:$5,407,504
Multi-Center Research Grant, NCMRR
(Emory PIs: K. Sathian, Andrew Butler; Grant PI, G. Wittenberg) 5/1/02 – 4/30/06
Title: Motor map plasticity in constraint therapy for stroke
Amount of sub-contract: Direct Costs: $436,976
Research Grant, Orton Dyslexia Society (PI: K. Sathian) 5/1/95-10/31/96
Title:Capabilities for tactile texture and form perception in individuals with developmental dyslexia.
Amount:$5,000
Research Grant,EmoryUniversity Research Committee (PI: K. Sathian) 9/1/96-8/31/97
Title:The neural basis of visual popout.
Amount:$15,000
Research Grant,Emory-Georgia Tech Biomedical TechnologyResearchCenter
(PIs: K. Sathian & T.J. Simon) 7/1/96 - 6/30/97
Title:The neurobiological basis of human visual attention.
Amount:$27,000
Research Grant,Emory-Georgia Tech Biomedical Technology Research Center
(PIs: K. Sathian & T.J. Simon) 7/1/97 - 6/30/98
Title:Psychophysical and functional neuro-imaging studies of attentional capture.
Amount:$24,000
Research Grant, American Parkinson’s Disease Association (PI: K. Sathian) 9/1/97-8/31/98
Title:Psychophysical and functional imaging studies of impaired tactile perception in Parkinson’s disease.
Amount:$25,000
Research Grant,Emory-Georgia Tech Biomedical TechnologyResearchCenter
(PIs : K. Sathian, E.T. Davis) 7/1/99 - 6/30/00
Title:Visual search and its neural basis.
Amount:$30,000
Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Program Center Grant
10/1/2002 – 9/30/2012(Co-PI since 7/10/05; PI since 10/1/09)
Title: AtlantaVACenter of Excellence for Rehabilitation of Aging Veterans with Vision Loss
Direct Costs:$4,250,000
NSF Research Grant(PI: K. Sathian) 9/15/05 – 8/31/08
Title:Multisensory form processing in extrastriate visual cortex.
Direct Costs: $126,255
Pilot Project from NIA Emory Alzheimer’s DiseaseResearchCenter (PI: K. Sathian) 5/1/08 – 4/30/09
Title: Cognitive rehabilitation of patients with mild cognitive impairment: A behavioral and functional neuroimaging study.
Direct Costs: $30,000
17.CLINICAL SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS:
1994 - Attending Neurologist, The Emory Clinic
1994 - Attending Neurologist, EmoryUniversityHospital
1994 - Attending Neurologist, WesleyWoodsHospital
1994 - Attending Neurologist, Grady MemorialHospital
1995-9Founding Medical Director, Emory Program in Restorative Neurology (PROREN)
2005 - First Director, Program in Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neurology, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine
2005 - Neurorehabilitation and Traumatic Brain Injury Clinics, Atlanta VAMC
18.FORMAL TEACHING:
a.Medical Student Teaching:
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
1983-1986Laboratory Demonstrator in Neuroscience (2nd year)
1983-1986Small Group Leader, Neurological Problem-Solving (2nd year)
1983-1986Tutor in Neuroscience (2nd year)
1983-1986Tutor in Neuroscience, NewmanCollege (2nd year)
EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine
1996-2001Somatosensory System (2 lectures), Medical Neurobiology (1st year)
1995-2000Small Group Leader, Problem Solving, Medical Neurobiology (1st year)
1994-Neurology ward rounds (3rd and 4th year)
1998-2002Rehabilitation Medicine ward rounds (3rd and 4th year)
b.Graduate Teaching: (Emory)
Neuroscience Program
1995 Perception: A window on the mind (IBS 506R, Neurological Mechanisms of Disease)
1996Neural plasticity (IBS 506R, Neurological Mechanisms of Disease)
1995,7 ,9 4-6 lectures on somatosensory system/neural plasticity/attention (IBS 555, Sensory Systems)
1995-2–5 lectures on Sensory Systems (Neural Systems)
1996-2004Head of section on Sensory Systems for IBS 503
1997-2004Somatosensory System (IBS 533, Neuroanatomy)
2000Motor deficits after traumatic brain injury (IBS 729, Principles of Neurotraumatology)
2001-2004Co-Director, IBS 503 (Neural Systems)
2005-Head of section on Sensory Systems for IBS 526
2005-Co-Director, IBS 526 (Neural Systems)
2008Imaging
2010, 2013, 2015-7Mentoring Committee, IBS 522 (grant-writing for NS grad students)
2012Co-organizer (with Laura Otis, Department of English), graduate seminar sponsored by the Center for Mind, Brain and Culture at Emory University: Images, Metaphors and the Brain.
2014Co-organizer (with Laura Otis, Department of English), graduate seminar: Language, Literature and Mental Simulation
Psychology Program
I am one of the faculty members involved in the seminar on fMRI methods, which meets for 2 hours every other week during the spring and fall semesters (2004-13).
Neurology Residency Program
1996Case discussions
Rehabilitation Medicine Residency Program
2005-Preceptorship in TBI Clinic
c. Other Teaching: Continuing Medical Education
Management of seizures. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals, April 1993.
Neural plasticity and perception. Neurology Grand Rounds, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, April 1993.
Disorders of somatosensory perception. Neurology Grand Rounds, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, January 1995.
Principles of restorative neurology. Neurology & Neurosurgery Update, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, December 1995.
Case studies in restorative neurology. Neurology Grand Rounds, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, September 1997.
Management of spasticity. Neurology & Neurosurgery Update, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, December 1997.
Tactile perception: Lessons from the lab. for neurologic recovery. Multidisciplinary Update on Medicine, Split Rock, PA, June 1998.
Tactile perception and neural plasticity. Rehabilitation Medicine Grand Rounds, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, April 1999.
Four lectures at Advances in treatment of hemiplegia, 1st Jornada de Medicina Fisica e Reabilitacao, São Paulo, Brazil, June 2000.
Where touch meets vision in the human brain. At ChristianMedicalCollege Alumni Reunion Refresher Course, Kenlake State Park, KY, June 2000.
Touch meets vision in the human brain. Neurology Grand Rounds, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, September 2000.
Feeling with the mind’s eye: visual cortical involvement in tactile perception.At Second CMC International Winter Symposium on “Neurosciences and Psychiatry”, ChristianMedicalCollege, Vellore, India, December 2003.
Cross-modal interactions between vision and touch: Implications for neurologic rehabilitation. Neurology Grand Rounds, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, March 2004.
Cross-modal interactions: From perception to neurorehabilitation. Neurology Grand Rounds, WakeForestUniversitySchool of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, January 2005.
Cross-modal interactions in perception and neurorehabilitation. Rehabilitation Medicine Grand Rounds, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, January 2005.
What makes visual cortex tick in the blind? At Vertical Integration CME Symposium on Neuro-Ophthalmology at the AmericanAcademy of Neurology, Miami, FL, April 2005.
Novel approaches to neurorehabilitation. At ChristianMedicalCollege Alumni Reunion Refresher Course, Lake Lanier Islands, GA, June 2005.
Cross-modal interactions between vision and touch: From perception to neurorehabilitation. Neurology Grand Rounds, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, April 2006.
Cross-modal interactions between vision and touch: From perception to neurorehabilitation. Neurology Grand Rounds, VanderbiltUniversitySchool of Medicine, Nashville, TN, March 2008.
Novel approaches to neurorehabilitation.Neurology Grand Rounds, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, February 2010.
Traumatic brain injury. Lecture to Rehabilitation Medicine Residents, EmoryUniversitySchool of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, September 2011.
Metaphors of the mind. At ChristianMedicalCollege Alumni Reunion Refresher Course,St. Louis, MO, June 2012.
Behavioral and neural changes following explicit memory training in patients with MCI. Department of Neurosciences, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India, August 2013.
The distributed nature of language representations in the brain.Department of Neurosciences, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India, December 2013.
Localization, quo vadis? Neurology Grand Rounds, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, December 2014.
Traumatic brain injury. Lecture to Neurology Residents, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, December 2014.
Traumatic brain injury. Lecture to Neurology Residents, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India, January 2015.
d. Participation on training grants
NIGMS; Neuroscience research (1994 – ); predoctoral; PI: Yoland Smith, PhD
NINDS; Translational research in Neurology; predoctoral and postdoctoral; PI: Allan Levey, MD, PhD
NEI; Vision research (1999 – ) ; predoctoral and postdoctoral; PI: Mike Iuvone, PhD
NIMH; Training Program in Neuroimaging Sciences; postdoctoral; PI: Douglas Bremner, MD
NIGMS; Post-baccalaureate fellow training program (2010 - ); PIs: Gordon Churchward, PhD; Catherin Quinones-Maeso, PhD
19.SUPERVISORY TEACHING:
a. Graduate students:
PhD Thesis Advisor to:
1995-2001Gargi A. Patel, PhD candidate in Neuroscience (EmoryUniversity)
1997-2002Sarah J. Chevalier, PhD candidate in Neuroscience (EmoryUniversity)
1998-2003Carissa J. Cascio, PhD candidate in Neuroscience (EmoryUniversity)