Experts by Expertise: Brain and Neuroscience

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11/9/21
Ralph H. Benedict

Professor of Neurology

Expertise: multiple sclerosis (MS); impact of MS, concussion and other brain diseases on personality, cognition and psychiatric stability
Email: benedict@buffalo.edu
Contact: Ralph H. Benedict can be reached through Ellen Goldbaum in University Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in University Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Nichol Castro

Assistant Professor of Communicative Disorders and Sciences

Expertise: speech, language and memory; word retrieval; anomia, including in aphasia, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
Phone: 716-829-5565
Email: nicholca@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Yu-Ping Chang

Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Endowed Professor of Nursing

Expertise: mental health; substance abuse and addiction; family caregiving and dementia

Phone: 716-829-2015
Email: yc73@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Shermali Gunawardena
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: neurons, axonal transport, biology of neurodegenerative diseases
Phone: 716-645-4915
Email: sg99@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD

Chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine

Expertise: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), psychosocial aspects of chronic pain disorders, behavioral medicine, brain-gut interactions, impact of chronic disease on quality of life, chronic care management

Phone: 716-898-5671
Email: lackner@buffalo.edu
12/20/18
John J. Leddy

Director of the Concussion Management Clinic

Expertise: concussions, post-concussion syndrome, sports medicine
Phone: 716-829-5501
Email: leddy@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Ciprian N. Ionita

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Expertise: 3-D medical imaging, 3-D printing in medicine, neuroimaging, cardiovascular imaging, endovascular disease

Phone: 716-829-5413
Email: cnionita@buffalo.edu
4/13/23
Kathryn Medler
Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: taste, taste cells, senses, peripheral nervous system, neuronal signaling
Phone: 716-645-4947
Email: kmedler@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Robert Miletich

Interim Chair and Professor of Nuclear Medicine
Expertise: nuclear medicine, nuclear neurology, brain scans and other neuroimaging techniques and neurodegenerative diseases
Phone: 716-838-5889
Email: miletich@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Sarah Muldoon
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Expertise: brain activity, brain networks, network neuroscience
Phone: 716-645-6284
Email: smuldoon@buffalo.edu
3/18/22
Ghazala Saleem

Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Science

Expertise: concussions (especially in children), traumatic brain injury, brain injury and intimate partner violence
Phone: 716-829-2589
Email: ghazalas@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Richard Salvi
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Expertise: tinnitus, hearing, noise-induced hearing loss, hyperacusis, central auditory system

Phone: 716-829-5310
Email: salvi@buffalo.edu
4/4/23
Panayotis (Peter) K. Thanos

Senior Research Scientist of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Expertise: ADHD treatment, addiction; brain imaging; alcohol and drug abuse, obesity, binge eating disorder, bariatric surgery, prenatal nicotine use, prenatal cannabis

Phone: 716-881-7520
Email: pthanos@ria.buffalo.edu