Session Chairs

Part of IEM INNOVATION WEEK (April 11-15, 2022)

SESSION CHAIRS

Session Chair Moderators on Thursday, April 14th

Alik Widge, MD, PhD

Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium Chair

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

PI, Translational NeuroEngineering Laboratory

MnDRIVE Brain Conditions Scholar

University of Minnesota

1:45 pm - 3:30 pm: Session 1: Limbic, Depression, and Mood Disorders

Session Chair: Alik Widge, M.D., Ph.D.

Alik Widge, MD, PhD is a brain stimulation psychiatrist and biomedical engineer. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, where he directs the Translational NeuroEngineering Lab. His research focuses on brain stimulation for severe and treatment-resistant mental illness, with particular emphasis on deep brain stimulation and related implantable technologies.

David Darrow, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Department of Neurosurgery

MnDrive Brain Conditions Scholar

Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar

University of Minnesota

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm: Session 2: Closing the Loop

Session Chair: David Darrow, M.D

Dr. David Darrow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Minnesota and the Rockswold-Kaplan Endowed Chair for Traumatic Brain Injury at Hennepin County Medical Center, specializing in functional and pain neurosurgery. Dr. Darrow treats diseases of the central nervous system with neuromodulation including epilepsy, movement disorders, trigeminal neuralgia/facial pain, chronic pain, and psychiatric diseases. Dr. Darrow is co-PI of the Herman-Darrow Human Neuroscience Lab with a mission of understanding and treating disorders of the nervous system with neuromodulation. By pairing neuromodulation with a quantitative understanding of the pathological circuits of the brain, the lab hopes to help patients improve symptoms and quality of life. Dr. Darrow is also the PI of the Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Research Center at HCMC where electrophysiology and neuromodulation are used to better understand and treat traumatic injuries of the central nervous system.

Robert McGovern III, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Assistant Residency Program Director

MnDRIVE Brain Conditions Scholar

University of Minnesota Medical School

Staff Neurosurgeon, Minneapolis VA Health Care System

5:50 pm - 6:35 pm: Voice of the Patient Community

Session Chair: Robert McGovern III, M.D.

Erin Venker, MA, LPCC ● Counselor for OCD and Anxiety Center of Minnesota ● Patient

Paul Klanderud, Ph.D. ● Deep Brain Stimulation Parkinson's Patient

Abstract:

Patients, caregivers, and research participants reflect on their experience with OCD, Depression, and Parkinson's Disease as well as what research can benefit them.

A native of Rhode Island, Dr. McGovern received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and his undergraduate degree (with honors) in neuroscience from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Following medical school, he completed his neurosurgical residency at Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York, NY, and a year-long fellowship in epilepsy surgery at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

Dr. McGovern is a functional/stereotactical neurosurgeon who specializes in treating patients with epilepsy and in providing deep brain stimulation surgery for relieving symptoms in patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor.

Session Chair Moderators on Friday, April 15th

Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad, Ph.D.

Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant Professor of Neuroengineering

Weill Neurohub Investigator

Department of Bioengineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Washington National Primate Research Center

University of Washington

8:00 am - 9:00 am: DEI Breakfast hosted by UMN Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Striving for equity: Addressing tokenism

Moderated by Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad, Ph.D.

Panel: Aryn Gittis, Ph.D., Ben Hayden, Ph.D., Tay Netoff, Ph.D., Sarah Offutt, Ph.D., Gulin Oz, Ph.D., Erika Ross, Ph.D., Virginia Woods, Ph.D., Alik Widge, M.D., Ph.D.

Abstract:

This will be a participatory meeting where small groups, led by a moderator, will discuss questions about tokenism from two viewpoints: a person from an underrepresented background that can be impacted by tokenism, and a person in the position of power who is concerned about the impact of their behaviors. This will be a safe space to explore, discuss, and share thoughts on identifying and dealing with tokenism.

Benjamin Hayden, PhD

Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium Chair

Professor

Department of Neuroscience

University of Minnesota

9:10 am - 10:55 am: Session 3: Learning, Memory, and Alzheimer's Disease

Session Chair: Benjamin Hayden, Ph.D.

Dr. Benjamin Hayden is a Professor of Neuroscience at UMN. He received his PhD at UC Berkeley and then was a post-doc at Duke University. His research makes use of electrophysiological recordings to understand the neural mechanisms of economic choice and executive control.

Théoden I. Netoff, PhD

Professor | Department of Biomedical Engineering

Minnesota Neuromodulation Symposium Conference Director

Co-Director of the Center for Neuroengineering

Co-Director of the Neuroimaging T32 training grant

MnDRIVE Brain Conditions Leadership & Researcher

University of Minnesota

12:45 pm - 1:15 pm: Funding Opportunities

Session Chair: Tay Netoff, Ph.D.

4:35 pm - 4:45 pm: Poster Awards Presented by Dr. Tay Netoff

Dr. Theoden Netoff is the Co-Director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Neuroengineering with Dr. Hubert Lim. He has chaired the Neuromodulation conference 3 times and is serving as the Conference Director this year. His research focuses on closed-loop and optimization of neuromodulation therapies for epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, and depression.

Hubert H. Lim, PhD

Professor in Biomedical Engineering and ENT

Endowed Lions Professorship in Otolaryngology

Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar

Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering

Associate Director, CTSI/ODAT/OACA, Institute for Engineering in Medicine

MnDRIVE Brain Conditions Researcher

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1:30 pm - 2:35 pm: Innovation & Industry Session

Session Chair: Hubert Lim, Ph.D.

Hubert Lim is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology as well as an Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar. He graduated with a BSE in Bioengineering from University of California-San Diego in 2000, and completed a dual MSE in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from University of Michigan where he also completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 2005. He completed postdoctoral research in the Otorlaryngology Department at Hannover Medical School in Germany from 2006 to 2009. His lab seeks to push the development and translation of neural interfaces and medical technologies from scientific concept into clinical application with close collaboration with clinicians and industry. They use approaches such as electrical stimulation, ultrasound imaging and stimulation, EEG, and invasive neural recordings, with a focus on hearing loss, tinnitus, inflammation disorders, and pain applications.

Jan Zimmermann, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Neuroscience

Center for Magnetic Resonance Research

University of Minnesota

2:45 pm - 4:30 pm: Session 4: New Technologies and Analyses

Session Chair: Jan Zimmermann, Ph.D.

Dr. Jan Zimmermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. His lab studies how the brain represents and constructs subjective value and how that signal is used to guide decision making. The lab is particularly interested in how the brain adaptively changes its coding strategy to encode statistical regularities within a changing environment. Using electrophysiology, ultra high field MRI and computational modeling the lab tries to understand how changes in reward encoding sensitivity could relate to a propensity for drug addiction.

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