Training Faculty

• Program faculty mentors have primary appointments in a number of Departments at the University of Cincinnati. Most are also affiliated with the Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
• The faculty represent a broad spectrum of research interests in neuroimaging, basic and translational neuroscience.
• The focus of the neuroimaging research of our faculty includes a strong emphasis on applications in pediatrics and brain development, but includes all aspects of Neuroimaging research in young adults.
• 16 of the faculty mentors have active research programs, and all are currently principal investigators of NIH-funded projects.
• Our faculty have strong track records in successfully training predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.

Faculty Members

• William S. Ball, Jr., MD – Cerebral perfusion and metabolic studies
• Hermine Brunner, MD, MSc – Neuropyschiatric Lupus Erythematosis
• Daniel Choo, MD - Genetics of auditory system development and anomolies
• Kim M. Cecil, Ph.D. – Neurometabolic studies of metabolic disease and neurotoxicology
• Mark DiFrancesco, Ph.D. – Lupus, Sleep deprivation, and EEG
• Jeff Epstein, Ph.D. – ADHD drug studies
• Tracy Glauser, MD – Epilepsy drug studies
• Scott K. Holland, PhD – Language and hearing development
• Istvan Pirko, MD – Multiple sclerosis
• Douglas Ris, PhD – Behavioral correlates of neuropsychological disorders
• Vincent J. Schmithorst, PhD – ICA for combined fMRI and MEG analysis
• Jennifer Vannest, Ph.D. – Influence of epilepsy on language
• Charles Vorhees PhD. – Drug addition
• Shari Wade, PhD – Traumatic brain injury
• Weihong Yuan, PhD – Diffusion tensor imaging in congentical hydrocephalus