Former Trainees

Arnold Bakker
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Bakker Memory Laboratory

Mark Baxter
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Professor, Neuroscience
Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Professor, Anesthesiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jennifer Bizon
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of California-Irvine
Associate Professor, Neuroscience, College of Medicine
Evelyn F. and William L. McKnight Brain Institute,
University of Florida

Mary Elizabeth Bostock
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Physician, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rochester Regional Health System

David J. Bucci
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College

Rebecca Burwell
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Brown University

Andrea Chiba
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of Utah
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
University of California-San Diego

Paul Colombo
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Associate Professor, Psychology
Tulane University

Michael Decker
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Senior Director in Neuroscience Drug Discovery Research
AbbVie Laboratories

Richard Fanelli
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., Duke University
Senior Director-US Regulatory Affairs
Purdue Pharma, L.P.

Tomoyuki Furuyashiki
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
M.D., Ph.D., Kyoto University
Professor, Medical Sciences
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine

Michael Gill
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Neurobehavioral Core Director Staff Research Scientist III
Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco

Jim Grau
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professor, Psychology
Texas A&M University

Jung-Soo Han
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., Korea University
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
Konkuk University

Tamera Hatfield Heintz
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
M.D., University of California-Irvine
Physician, Maternal-Fetal Medicine OB-GYN
UC Irvine Health Women’s Healthcare Center & Center for Fetal Evaluation

Katherine Helm
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Associate
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York

Alex Johnson
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D.,Cardiff University
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Michigan State University

Joanne Lee
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., Yale University
Assistant Professor, Psychology
University of Texas at Austin

Jeffrey Mayse
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
PostDoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience
Brown University

Mary Meagher
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Professor, Psychology
Texas A&M University

Alan Nagahara
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of California-Irvine
Associate Project Scientist, Specialist, Neuroscience
University of California-San Diego

Michelle Nicolle
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Chaplain Intern
Arbor Acres Retirement Community

Mary Ann Pelleymounter
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Scientific Project Manager, Office of Translational Research
NINDS & Operates Consulting Firm: InVivo Pharmacology Consulting, LLC

Gorica Petrovich
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Associate Professor, Psychology
Boston College

Peter Rapp
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
National Institute on Aging, Senior Investigator Chief
Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology and Chief
Neurocognitive Aging Section

George Robinson
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Professor & Chairman, Psychology
Sensory and Cognitive Neuroelectrophysiology Laboratory
N.C. A&T State University

Michael Saddoris
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado, Boulder

Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Branch Chief and Senior Investigator, Cellular Neurobiology Research Branch
Behavioral Neurophysiology Research Section, NIDA-IRP

Barry Setlow
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., University of California-Irvine
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
University of Florida College of Medicine

Dani Smith
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Director of the Neurogenetics and Behavior Center
Johns Hopkins University (under Michela Gallagher)

Amy Spiegel
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience
National Institute on Aging

Kaye Stenvers
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Laboratory Head, Reproductive Development & Cancer
Prince Henry’s Institute
Adjunct Lecturer, Developmental Biology and Anatomy
Monash University

Alexis M. Stranahan
Former Gallagher Postdoctoral Trainee
Ph.D., Princeton University
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Medical College of Georgia

Dana Ziegler
Former Gallagher Graduate Student
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences
Marquette University