Directors

Corey McMillan PhD

Co-Director, Associate Professor

He/Him

Lauren Massimo PhD, CRNP, FAAN

Co-Director, Associate Professor

She/Her

David Irwin MD

Co-Director, Associate Professor

He/Him

Our Team

"Our center is dedicated to the care of individuals with Frontotemporal degeneration spectrum disorders. Understanding the basis for Frontotemporal degeneration will improve quality of life and lead to a cure for these conditions."

~ Dr. Murray Grossman, Founder, Penn FTD Center

Faculty

Sara Manning MD, MS

Assistant Professor

Katya Rascovsky PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Jeffrey Maneval MD

Assistant Professor

Jeffrey Phillips PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Naomi Nevler MD

Research Assistant Professor

Katheryn Cousins PhD

Research Assistant Professor

She/Her

Emma Rhodes PhD

Neuropsychologist & Assistant Professor

Operations and Management Staff

Lyles Clark PhD

Assistant Director

They/Them

Dahlia Kamel MS

Clinical Research Program and Operations Lead

She/Her

Research Fellows and Trainees

Barbara Spencer PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

She/Her

Nadia Dehghani PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

She/Her

Rory Boyle PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

He/Him

Ting Shen PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Melanie Matyi PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Ohm PhD

Research Associate

Anil Wadhwani MD, PhD

Instructor of Neurology and Postdoctoral Fellow

He/Him

Clinical Staff

Laynie Dratch ScM, CGC

Genetic Counselor

Gillian Bradley MA, BSN, RN

Clinical Research Nurse

She/Her

Katherine Lietz MSW, LSW

Social Worker

Graduate Students

Lasya Sreepada

Bioengineering PhD Student

Mohammed Saqib

Bioengineering PhD Student

He/Him

Research Staff

Sharon Ash PhD

Research Specialist C

Chigozie Ibe

Clinical Research Coordinator

He/Him

Mara Bloom

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Cara Joyce MPH

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Jessica Legaspi MS

Clinical Research Project Manager

Quinn Hlava

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Sevila Temirova

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Samantha Dengel

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Julia Kwiecinski

Clinical Research Coordinator

Emily Xie

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Jordana Woodford MA, Ed.S

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Cayla Andrews MS

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Carmen Gonzalez-Recober

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Ashlyn O’Halloran

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Marianthi Hareras

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Alexandra Tavani

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Hamsi Radhakrishnan PhD

Neuroimaging Data Engineer

She/Her

Lauren Bracken

Clinical Research Coordinator

She/Her

Christopher Olm PhD

Neuroimaging Data Engineer

He/Him

Administration

Meaghan Sharp

Outreach Coordinator

She/Her

Daneel Douglas

Technical Support

Brian Nelson BS

Data Management Systems

Alumni

Brianna Morgan, PHD, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN

Brianna is currently completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine.

Danielle Almstead

Danielle is currently a doctoral student at Thomas Jefferson University in the College of Life Sciences, pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Sciences. She plans to complete her training within the interdisciplinary graduate program in Neuroscience and hopes to continue to conduct research on neurodegenerative diseases!