Teresa Liu-Ambrose, PhD, PT
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair
Healthy aging, mobility, falls prevention, exercise, older adults, cognitive health, brain health
Shernaz Bamji, PhD
Professor
Synapse biology, neuroscience, neurodevelopmental biology, cellular and molecular approaches
Naznin Virji-Babul, PT, PhD
Assistant Professor
Concussion, traumatic brain injury, adolescent brain development, infant brain development, perception-action development, perception-emotion development
Weihong Song, MD, PhD
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease, Down syndrome, aging
Peter Reiner, VMD, PhD
Professor
Neuroethics, Cognitive Enhancement, Smartphones, Persuasive Technologies, Extended Mind, Autonomy, tDCS, Direct-to-consumer neurotechnology, neuromarketing, nudging
Neil Pearson, PT, MSc
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pain, chronic pain, pain management, self care, physiotherapy, yoga, therapeutic yoga
Blair Leavitt, MD, CM
Professor
Genetic brain diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, Huntington disease, frontotemporal dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ataxia
Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAPA
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry, Depression, Schizophrenia, Neurostimulation, ECT, rTMS, Neuroimaging
Luke Clark, PhD
Professor
Director, Centre for Gambling Research at UBC
Gambling, problem gambling, addiction, decision-making, reward, cognitive neuroscience
Dr. Rickey Y. Yada, PhD
Dean and Professor
Food systems, food waste, food policy, agricultural policy, food protein chemistry, enzymes (aspartic proteases), carbohydrate biochemistry, food nanotechnology,
Dr. Stan Floresco, PhD
Professor
Dopamine, reward, decision making, cognitive flexibility, frontal lobes, addiction,
Dr. Catriona Hippman, PhD, CGC
Postdoctoral Fellow
Genetic counselling, genetic counseling, psychiatry, mental illness, postpartum depression, reproductive mental health, perinatal mental health, prenatal genetic screening, Down syndrome, disability, pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, antidepressants, antidepressant use in pregnancy, decision making in pregnancy,
Prof. Paul van Donkelaar, PhD
Professor
Traumatic brain injury; intimate partner violence; sports-related concussion; sensorimotor control; neurocognitive function; cerebrovascular physiology,
Dr. Lawrence Ward, AB, PhD
Professor
Cognitive/perceptual psychology, psychophysics, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience, stochastic resonance,
Prof. Edward Taylor, PhD, RCSW, ACSW
Associate Dean
Assessment, diagnoses, and treatment of moderate to severe mental disorders in youth and young adults, School Violence, Terrorism and the many pathways to becoming a terrorist, Understanding violence and mental disorders, Neuro-social development of social intelligence and social problem-solving,
Tiffany Townsend, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology, epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, seizures, psychiatry and epilepsy
Dr. Elizabeth M. Simpson, BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor
Genetics, genomics, mouse modeling, CRISPR, aniridia, blindness,
David Li, MD, FRCPC
Professor Emeritus of Radiology
Emeritus Director UBC MS/MRI Research Group
Multiple sclerosis (MS), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)