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Alex Sugarman B.A.

Research Assistant, BAL Lab

Alex Sugarman graduated from Wheaton College with a B.A. in Neuroscience in May 2017. He is currently working on a study that designs web-based neurological examinations to test cognitive function in...
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Will Allen B.S.

Research Assistant, TRACTS

Will Allen graduated from Boston College in May of 2018 with a B.S. in Biology.  Will's undergraduate research centered around microbiology, specifically the characterization of multidrug-resistant...
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Amrita Bedi, B.S.

Alumni

Amrita Bedi joined the TRACTS team in October 2018 after graduating from The City College of New York with a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. During her undergraduate studies, Amrita was...

GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
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150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
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Livie Clark, BS

Livie Clark started in September and works as a Research Statistician on the UMSL IPV study in TRACTS. She studied Health Sciences at BU and will earn her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics this...
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150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
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Samarah Cook, A.B.

Research Assistant, TRACTS

Samarah Cook graduated with departmental honors from Vassar College with an A.B. in Neuroscience & Behavior. During her undergraduate studies, she worked in a neuroendocrinology lab examining...
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Boston, MA 02130
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Umesh Venkatesan, Ph.D.

Umi's role within TRACTS includes conducting clinical interviews with veterans and offering feedback on their study participation. He is also involved in analyzing and preparing data for publication...

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Laura Levin, B.S.

Research Assistant, TRACTS

Laura graduated from MIT with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science and subsequently worked in a neuroimaging lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She is now working with Dr. Fonda on maintaining...
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150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
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Lilly Hanlon, B.A.

Research Assistant, TRACTS

Lilly joined the TRACTS team as a research assistant in October 2017 after graduating from Connecticut College with a BA in Behavioral Neuroscience and a minor in Psychology. During the summer of 2016...
GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
Building 1, Floor 11, D-Wing
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
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Ayo Douglas, B.S.

Research Assistant, BAL Lab

Ayooluwa (Ayo) Douglas is a research assistant in the BAL Lab. She studies training-related effects in developmental prosopagnosia. Ayo graduated from Duke University in May 2017 with a B.S. in...

GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
Building 1, Floor 12, D-Wing
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
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Morgane Bulpin, B.A.

Research Assistant, BAL Lab

Morgane Bulpin graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Neuroscience in May 2017. She is currently working on a study that investigates training-related neuroplasticity in developmental...

GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
Building 1, Floor 12, D-Wing
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
mbulpin@bu.edu
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Alex Mitko, B.A.

Research Assistant, BAL Lab

Alex Mitko joined the BAL lab as a research assistant after graduating from Hamilton College in May 2016. He is currently working on a study testing cognitive training in a drug abuse rehabilitation...

GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
Building 1, Floor 12, D-Wing
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
alexmitko7@gmail.com
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Thomas Wooten, B.S.

Research Assistant, BAL Lab

Thomas Wooten graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BS in Psychology in May 2016. He is currently working on a research project exploring the relationship between cerebrovascular...

GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
Building 1, Floor 12, D-Wing
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
tom.wooten16@gmail.com
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Nicolette F. Schwarz, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Research Fellow in GRECC and the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

M​y research involves cognitive neuroscience methods​​ and neuroimaging in particular. Using MRI, I study brain ​structure and ​function in individuals with cardio-metabolic syndrome as part of Dr...

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Ryan Andrews, B.S.

Research Assistant, TRACTS

Ryan graduated with a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience and minor in Psychology from Lehigh University in 2015.

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150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
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Stephen Okajima

Research Assistant, TRACTS

Stephen Okajima was a part-time research assistant at TRACTS, primarily focusing on imaging related data analysis.

GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
Building 1, Floor 11, C-Wing
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
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Vincent Corbo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Southern New Hampshire University.

I am currently interested in the cognitive, emotional and neurological impact of early life trauma on adults exposed to stress and trauma.

GRECC (182 JP), VA Medical Center
Building 1, Floor 11, C-Wing
150 South Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02130
v.corbo@snhu.edu

David Zade, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral fellow, GNL

David Zade was fellow in Clinical Neuropsychology, completing his training with the GNL as part of the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology - Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program in 2006 -...

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Jon Venne

Research Assistant

Jon Venne was a full-time research technician responsible for subject recruitment, scheduling of tests and on-site data collection.