Meet Our Team

Cristopher Bragg, PhD
Director
Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine, JD, MPP
Co-Founder
Founder and President
Sunshine Care Foundation, Inc.

Amy Alessi, PhD
Program Director
Department of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Nutan Sharma, MD, PhD
Head, Clinical Program
Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Anne B. Young, MD, PhD
Co-chair, Scientific Advisory Board
Distinguished Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Michael Schwarzschild MD, PhD
Co-Chair, Scientific Advisory Board
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc
Chief, MGH Department of Neurology
Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Craig Blackstone, MD PhD
Chief, MGH Neurology Division of Movement Disorders
Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Michael Talkowski, PhD
Director, MGH Center for Genomic Medicine
Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Nutan Sharma, MD, PhD
Head, Clinical Program
Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Laurie Ozelius, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Cristopher Bragg, PhD
Director
Associate Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Ellen B. Penney, MD, PhD
Head, XDP Brain Bank
Instructor in Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Christine A. Vaine, PhD
Program Manager
Massachusetts General Hospital

Trisha Multhaupt-Buell, MS, LCGC
Clinical Research Program Manager
Massachusetts General Hospital

Christopher D. Stephen, MB, CHB
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Aloysius Domingo, MD, PhD
Instructor in Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Rachita Yadav, PhD
Instructor in Neurology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Nicolas Bravo-Vasquez, DVM PhD
Research Scientist
Massachusetts General Hospital

Hoang-Dai Tran, PhD
Research Scientist
Massachusetts General Hospital

Patrick Acuña, MD, MPH
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator
Massachusetts General Hospital

Yuxuan (Cris) Zhang
Clinical Research Coordinator I
Massachusetts General Hospital

Justin Han
Research Technician
Massachusetts General Hospital

Ean Norenberg
Research Technician
Massachusetts General Hospital

Alan Mejia-Maza, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Charles Jourdan F. Reyes, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Miguel Israel Chavez Santoscoy, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow