Our Team

Leadership

Robert Cantu, M.D., Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at BUSM, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Chief of Neurosurgery Service at Emerson Hospital; and a world-renowned expert on concussion

Ann McKee, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Pathology at BUSM, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, and Director of the BU ADC Neuropathology Core, which involves conducting neuropathological analyses of brain tissue and maintaining the ADC Brain Bank

Chris Nowinski, Co-Director of the Center for Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sports Legacy Institute* and author of the book Head Games

Investigators

Robert A. Stern, Ph.D., Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at BUSM, Investigator at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, and Director of the BU ADC Clinical Core

Lee Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Neurology, Opthalmology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Director, Molecular Aging and Development Laboratory, Director, Translation Core, NIH Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Director, Center for Biometals & Metallomics (CBM), Director, Molecular Biophotonics Laboratory (MBL)

VA Brain Bank Team

Thor Stein, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Associate Director of the Neuropathology Core of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center

Victor E. Alvarez M.D., Physician Research Associate

Daniel H. Daneshvar, MA, M.D./Ph.D. Graduate Researcher at BUSM; Sports Legacy Institute Community Educators (SLICE) Co-Director

Sydney Wojtowicz, Research Coordinator at the VA Boston HealthCare System/ Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy Brain Bank

Matthew Jacobs, Research Assistant

Clinical Research Team

Christine Baugh, MPH, Research Instructor of Neurology at BUSM and CSTE Research Coordinator

Daniel Seichepine, Ph.D., Post-doctoral fellow in Neuropsychology at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy

Lisa McHale, Sports Legacy Institute Director of Family Relations

Clifford Robbins, Study Coordinator

Nathan Fritts, Research Assistant

Julie Stamm, Graduate Researcher, Ph.D. Student in Anatomy and Neurobiology

Philip Montenigro, M.D./ Ph.D. Graduate Researcher at BUSM

Lauren Murphy, Program Coordinator/Executive Assistant

Brian Stamm, Research Intern

Alexandra Bourlas, Research Intern

Alyssa Blood, Research Intern

Andrew Brennan, Research Intern

Daniel Wigmore, Research Intern

Collaborators

Alexander Lin, Ph.D., HMS Instructor in Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

*Sports Legacy Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the study, treatment and prevention of concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive concussive and sub-concussive brain injuries. The organization was conceived after SLI members and their colleagues identified the first four cases of CTE in retired professional football players. At the time of their deaths, all four athletes, all of whom died by the age of 50, had remarkable early cell death and excessive amounts of the toxic protein tau throughout their brains, indicative of CTE.