Session 3 Instructors

Cammie Rolle

NFEP Workshop Program Co-Director & Co-Instructor

Cammie has been conducting independent research for about a decade, and is currently a fourth year Neuroscience PhD student at Stanford University. She attended University of California, Davis for her undergraduate work, where she obtained a Bachelors of Science in Ecology, Evolution and Biology, and a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology.

Cammie began her PhD at Stanford working with Dr. Amit Etkin within the Neurosciences program in 2015, and was awarded a five-year fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her thesis work. She has published nearly 10 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, has presented over 20 peer-reviewed scientific posters, and has been invited to speak at national and international conferences in Neuroscience.

Cammie has been teaching math and sciences for 13 years, and has been mentoring high school, college, and post-college students in Neurosciences and Professional Development for the last 7 years. Cammie co-runs a Stanford program called Brain Day, in which human and animal brains are brought into the Palo Alto middle schools to educate students about the brain. Cammie has served on a number of admissions committees, including the Stanford Neurosciences PhD Admissions committee, in which she interviewed and helped determine admissions decisions regarding incoming Neuroscience PhD students. NFEP developed out of Cammie's passion for teaching, mentoring, and spreading excitement about the brain.

Dr. Christine Walsh

NFEP Workshop Program Co-Director & Co-Instructor

Dr. Christine M. Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco and has been doing neuroscience-based research for the past 20 years.

Christine received her bachelor’s degree in human physiology at Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland. Christine received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan and did her postdoctoral research in the Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco. There, Christine established a program of sleep research in healthy older adults and individuals with neurodegenerative disease.

Christine’s research has utilized a number of methodological approaches including electrophysiology of neural pathways, MRI, EEG, wearable assessment tools, neuropsychological, cognitive and behavioral assessments. Her research experiences have explored the effect of modifying factors on the brain such as aging, inflammatory responses, REM sleep deprivation, early musicianship and neurodegenerative disease,.

Christine has served on the International Sleep Society Research Committee, and has been an invited reviewer for several different scientific journals and scientific grants, With respect to teaching, Christine has taught classes and given lectures at the University of Michigan and San Francisco State University on a variety of neuroscience-based topics, and has given dozens of scientific and community based lectures on her research. Further, during graduate school, Christine took part in an annual reverse science fair called Brains Rule, teaching middle school students about how the brain works. Over the years Christine has mentored numerous individuals who are now successful doctors, nurses, psychologists and researchers (both in academia and industry).

Christine is highly committed to mentoring and developing the next generation of the neuroscience researchers, psychologists and neurologists.

Dr. Joshua Jordan

NFEP Workshop Co-Instructor

Dr. Jordan is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and Research Analyst in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He received his bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited program, and is in the second year of Fellowship at the prestigious Clinical Psychology Training Program at the University of California, San Francisco.

In addition to his roles at UCSF and Stanford, Dr. Jordan regularly consults on research methods and statistical matters for several academic institutions as well as industry. He has published over 15 articles in peer-reviewed journals, has written several book chapters, has presented over 30 peer-reviewed scientific posters and papers at national and international conferences, and has been invited to serve as a reviewer for several scientific journals.

Over the past six years, Dr. Jordan has mentored numerous undergraduate students on their research projects, which has led to presentations at international conferences. He regularly gives lectures on clinical, research, and statistical matters to doctoral students, medical students, and advanced postdoctoral fellows, and is excited to share his passion for clinical science with the next generation of promising students.

Noriah Johnson:

NFEP Workshop Primary Teaching Assistant

Noriah graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Her academic record at UC Berkeley earned her membership in the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society, as well as Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology. She continues to volunteer with the Greater Good Science Center, a research center at UC Berkeley devoted to investigating the roots of happiness, compassion, and altruism, as well as volunteering with Stanford Neurosciences Brain Day, at Stanford University.

Noriah has been conducting clinical neuroscience research at the Stanford School of Medicine for the past nearly two years, where she uses methodologies such as TMS-EEG, and fMRI to investigate the neurological underpinnings of psychiatric disorders. During her time at Stanford, she took part in an international collaborative consulting internship at the University of Zagreb/Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia, where she served as an experimental consultant for an international collaboration, and gave an invited lecture on current efforts in human approach-avoidance conflict tasks. Additionally, she gave invited presentations on TMS-EEG, and the foundations and tools for investigation of cognitive neurosciences at the Stanford University Apogee Summer course.

This summer, Noriah looks forward to presenting a poster on the causal role of the dorsal-lateral prefrontal cortex in approach-avoidance conflict, at the 74^th Annual Society of Biological Psychiatry Conference in Chicago, Illinois, and continued learning and teaching opportunities in the scientific community at Stanford.