The Director of CBHI is Lin Mei M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Neurosciences, CWRU School of Medicine and the Allen C. Holmes Professor of Neurological Diseases. Dr. Mei received his Diploma of Medicine from Jiangxi Medical College Nanchang, China, and his doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Tuscon, Tuscon AZ. He joined CWRU from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta, where he was professor and inaugural chair of the Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine. He studies the pathophysiology of genetic disorders in the nervous system.
CBHI's Assistant Director for Scientific Programs is Eleni A. Markakis Ph.D., Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine. Dr. Markakis earned her artium baccalaureus and master’s degrees from Bryn Mawr College (Margaret Hollyday Ph.D.) and her doctorate from the University of Southern California (Larry W. Swanson Ph.D.). She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Salk Institute (Fred H. Gage Ph.D.) and Yale University School of Medicine (Pasko Rakic M.D. Ph.D.) where she became Assistant Professor in Psychiatry. She studies adult neurogenesis, neurodegeneration, and neural stem cell biology.
Directors
Lin Mei M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Cleveland Brain Health Initiative, School of Medicine
Professor and Chair Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine
Eleni A. Markakis Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Scientific Programs, Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine
CBHI Internal Advisory Board
Stanton L. Gerson M.D.
Dean, School of Medicine
Professor, Medicine, School of Medicine
Bernard Boulanger M.D., M.B.A.
Professor, Surgery, School of Medicine
Executive Vice President and C.F.O. MetroHealth
Mark R. Chance Ph.D.
Vice Dean, Research, School of Medicine
Professor, Nutrition, School of Medicine
Brian L. Cmolik M.D.
Associate Professor Surgery, School of Medicine
Chief of Staff, Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC
Mukesh Jain M.D.
Professor, Medicine, School of Medicine
Chief Academic Officer, University Hospitals
James B. Young M.D.
Executive Dean, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Chief Academic Officer, Cleveland Clinic
CBHI Executive Committee
Agnieszka A. Ardelt, M.D., Ph.D.
Director Neuorcritical Care, MetroHealth Medical Center
Anthony J. Furlan, M.D.
Professor, Neurology
University Hospitals
Mark Griswold, Ph.D.
Professor, Radiology
University Hospitals
Jonathan L. Haines, Ph.D.
Mary W. Sheldon Professor of Genomic Sciences and Chair, Population & Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Robert F. Kirsch, Ph.D.
Allen H. and Constance T. Ford Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Case School of Engineering, University
Michael N. Lehman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Director Brain Health Research Institute, Kent State University
Alan J. Lerner, M.D.
Professor, Neurology, and Neurological Institute Chair, Memory and Cognition
University Hospitals
Neal Peachey, Ph.D.
Professor, Ophthalmology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Associate Chief of Staff/Research Office, Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC
Martha Sajatovic, M.D.
Professor, Psychiatry, and Willard Brown Chair in Neurological Outcomes Research
University Hospitals
Warren R. Selman, M.D.
Professor Neurological Surgery, and Harvey Huntington Brown Jr. Chair, Neurosurgery
University Hospitals
Cathy Sila, M.D.
Gilbert W. Humphrey Professor and Chair, Neurology
University Hospitals
Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D.
James H. Jewell MD '34 Professor and Chair, Genetics and Genome Sciences
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
James B. Young M.D.
Executive Dean, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Chief Academic Officer, Cleveland Clinic
Xiongwei Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor, Pathology
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine