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class="field-item even"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-slider"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-pg-slider-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="bg-slider-image" style="background-image:url('https://dyslexia.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra4996/f/styles/slider_secondary/public/GrinbergLab.jpg?itok=oOX2X4HV')"></div></div></div></div><div class="group-slider-content field-group-div"><div class="group-slider-inside field-group-div"><div class="field field-name-field-pg-slider-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Our multidisciplinary team includes neurologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, psychologists, and neuroscientists working together to both uncover underlying deficits and unique strengths that are associated with dyslexia and to develop therapies that can avert or reverse deficits and enhance the strengths.</div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="main-wrapper"> <div id="main" class="clearfix"> <div id="content" class="column"> <div class="inside"> <a id="main-content"></a> <div class="tabs"></div> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div id="node-51" class="node node-page slider-secondary clearfix" about="/content/people" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"> <span property="dc:title" content="People" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>Neurology Investigators</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://memory.ucsf.edu/people/marilu-gorno-tempini-md-phd">Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, MD, PhD.,</a> is a behavioral neurologist, Director of Neurology, Co-Director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center, and the Charles Schwab Endowed Professorship in Dyslexia and Neurodevelopment. As lead neurologist, she applies her expertise in cognitive neurology to language-based learning differences such as dyslexia.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/aboxer" title="Adam Boxer, MD, PhD">Adam Boxer, MD, PhD,</a> is a behavioral neurologist and Associate Professor of Neurology at the Memory and Aging Center. His expertise is in eye-tracking and neuroimaging.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/jkramer" title="Joel Kramer, PsyD">Joel Kramer, PsyD,</a> is a Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Neurology, and Director of the Memory and Aging Center’s Neuropsychology Program and participates in the UCSF Language Clinic. His expertise is in executive functioning and attention systems.</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/malu.mandelli" title="Maria Luisa Mandelli, PhD">Maria Luisa Mandelli, PhD,</a> is a bioengineering researcher at the Memory and Aging Center. She is an expert in the neuroimaging of neurological disorders.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/zmiller" title="Zachary Miller, MD">Zachary Miller, MD,</a> is a behavioral neurologist at the Memory and Aging Center with expertise in language disorders in children and adults.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/kpossin" title="Kate Possin, PhD">Kate Possin, PhD,</a> is an Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology at the Memory and Aging Center within the UCSF Department of Neurology. She develops cognitive assessment tools to support patient evaluation and monitoring, including virtual reality tests of navigation and tablet-based tools for clinical applications.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/krankin" title="Katherine Rankin, PhD">Katherine Rankin, PhD,</a> is a neuropsychologist at the Memory and Aging Center. Her primary area of expertise is in personality and social behavior.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/hrosen" title="Howard Rosen, MD">Howard Rosen, MD,</a> is a behavioral neurologist at the Memory and Aging Center. His primary area of interest is in the organization of emotional systems in the brain.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/vsturm" title="Virginia Sturm, PhD">Virginia Sturm, PhD,</a> is a psychologist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Program. She is an experienced researcher in laboratory measurement of emotion and social behavior. She directs the <a href="http://canlab.ucsf.edu/" title="The Clinical Affective Neuroscience (CAN) Laboratory in the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)">Clinical Affective Neuroscience (CAN) Laboratory</a> is located in the <a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/" title="the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)">UCSF Memory and Aging Center</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://memory.ucsf.edu/ourcenter/staff/cwatson">Christa Watson, PsyD,</a> is a neuropsychologist at the Dyslexia Center. She has a background in psychology, developmental biology, neuroimaging, and neuropsychology. Her research interests include brain development across the lifespan.</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/eduardo.caverzasi" target="_blank">Eduardo Caverzasi, </a>is an <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/eduardo.caverzasi" id="LPlnk73756" target="_blank">MD PhD</a> Neuroradiologist working as an associate specialist at the Department of Neurology. His research specializes in advanced diffusion and morphometry MRI techniques in primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and dyslexia.</li> <li><a href="https://memory.ucsf.edu/people/jessica-deleon-md">Jessica Deleon, MD</a>, is a behavioral neurologist at the Memory and Aging Center who specializes in language disorders in children and adults.</li> <li><a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/boonlead.tee">Boon Lead Tee, MD</a>, is a behavioral neurologist at the Memory and Aging Center. Her primary interest is in developing linguistic adapted language assessment tools for Chinese-speaking populations that suffer from neurodegenerative diseases.</li> <li><a href="https://mathcognitionucsf.github.io/">Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, PhD,</a> is an Adjunct Professor at the UCSF Dyslexia Center studying the neural architecture and dynamics of human intelligence, with a focus on cognitive symbolic systems, such as mathematics and language.</li> </ul> </div></div></div> <div class="paragraphs-items paragraphs-items-field-paragraph-sections paragraphs-items-field-paragraph-sections-full paragraphs-items-full"> <div class="field field-name-field-paragraph-sections field-type-paragraphs field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-textarea"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-pg-textarea-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Investigators</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://directory.ucsf.edu/people/search/id/50544">Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D.</a> is a Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, at UCSF. For 40+ years, she has taught students in general/special education classrooms at public/private schools, provided psycho-educational assessment and literacy intervention, trained pre-/in-service teachers and practitioners, developed curricula, and been involved in policy. She has particular expertise in the training of teachers in the Slingerland Multisensory Structured Language Approach (Structured Literacy) for teaching students with dyslexia. </li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/nicki.bush" title="Nicole Bush, PhD">Nicole Bush, PhD,</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Her expertise is in adversity in early life and examining the gene x environment interaction in stress reactivity.</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/kaja.lewinn" title="Kaja LeWinn, ScD, MS">Kaja LeWinn, ScD, MS,</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. She has expertise in epidemiology, social engagement and emotion regulation issues in adolescence.</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/keith.mcburnett" title="Keith McBurnett, PhD">Keith McBurnett, PhD,</a> is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor of Psychiatry. He has extensive experience researching behavior disorders and developmental psychopathologies such as ADHD, dyslexia, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder.</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.hendren">Robert Hendren, DO.</a> is a Co-Director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center; and Director of the Program for Research On Neurodevelopmental and Translational Outcomes <a href="http://hendrenlab.ucsf.edu/">(PRONTO)</a></li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/stephen.bent">Stephen Bent, MD</a>, is a Professor and Research Director for the Neurodevelopmental Translational Outcomes Research Program (NTORP).</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/linda.pfiffner" title="Linda Pfiffner, PhD">Linda Pfiffner, PhD,</a> is a Clinical Psychologist with clinical expertise in ADHD, disruptive behavior problems and other related learning or emotional issues in children and adolescents. She has special interests in developing and implementing interventions in the home and in schools.</li> <li><a href="https://psych.ucsf.edu/faculty.aspx?id=7623" title="Matthew State, MD, PhD ">Matthew State, MD, PhD,</a> is a world-renowned geneticist with expertise in autism, Tourette syndrome, and other neurodevelopmental syndromes. He was appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute in March of 2013.</li> </ul> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-textarea"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-pg-textarea-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>Other Investigators</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/stephen.hauser">Steve Hauser, MD,</a> is chair of Neurology at UCSF and director of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Dr. Hauser is a leader in the international effort to identify genetic causes of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the first physician-researcher to demonstrate a promising weapon against progressive MS.</li> <li><a href="http://neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/index.php/about_us_faculty_chang_edward.html" title="Edward Chang, MD">Edward Chang, MD,</a> is an Associate Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery and Physiology and the Co-Director for the Program for Neural Engineering at UC Berkeley and San Francisco. Dr. Chang specializes in brain mapping methods, such as awake speech and motor mapping.</li> <li><a href="http://www.sloan.ucsf.edu/%7Ehoude/" title="John Houde, PhD">John Houde, PhD,</a> is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology. He directs the Speech Neuroscience Laboratory at UC San Francisco. He has expertise in the neural substrate of speech motor control.</li> <li><a href="http://anp.ucsf.edu/aboutus/faculty/emarco" title="Elysa Marco, MD">Elysa Marco, MD,</a> Dr. Marco is a pediatric neurologist, Assistant Professor of Neurology, and Director of Research at the Autism and Neurodevelopment Program. Her research focuses on autism and sensory processing disorders.</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/pratik.mukherjee" title="Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD">Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD,</a> is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering and directs the Neural Connectivity Laboratory. His methodological expertise is in diffusion tensor imaging to measure white matter and computational approaches, with a special interest in children and in traumatic brain injury.</li> <li><a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/srikantan.nagarajan" title="Srikantan Nagarajan, PhD">Srikantan Nagarajan, PhD,</a> is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and directs the Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory. He is an expert in computational neuroscience and magnetoencephalography (MEG). He has special interest in research related to neural mechanisms of brain plasticity, sensorimotor learning and speech motor control.</li> <li><a href="https://www.uchastings.edu/people/andrea-lollini/">Andrea Lollini, PhD</a>, is an Adjunct Professor of Law at UC Hastings who is involved in the Dyslexia Center's Prison Study.</li> <li><a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/michelle.porche">Michelle Porche, EdD</a>, is an Associate Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry who is involved in the UCSF | UCB Schwab Dyslexia & Cognitive Diversity Center.</li> </ul> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div><div class="field-item even"><div class="entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-textarea"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-pg-textarea-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h3>Staff</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/authwall?trk=gf&trkInfo=AQFVQAo59P4XgwAAAYnbGgGw0D3LqtOkyz53LjFUhyaATeyq841p4CLYmVi_kcijF9Ki5NjshGaN9CsGuyigC9pbPkz9Al50y8QEQ7R6NhN7aRc2gi0lnYx5SnSvvYudqXMZi-8=&original_referer=https://www.google.com/&sessionRedirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fellie-carpenter-504537b9">Elizabeth Carpenter</a> is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Dyslexia Phenotyping Project.</li> <li><a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/dolce.martin-moreno">Dolce Vita Martin-Moreno</a> is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the Dyslexia Phenotyping Project.</li> <li><a href="https://albalab.ucsf.edu/people/maya-bardorf-bs">Maya Bardorf</a> is an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator for the Dyslexia Phenotyping Project.</li> <li><a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/rian.bogley">Rian Bogley</a> is the Database Architect for the <a href="https://albalab.ucsf.edu/">Alba Language Neurobiology Lab</a> and Dyslexia Center.</li> <li><a href="https://profiles.ucsf.edu/margo.kersey">Margo Kersey</a> is a Research Data Analyst for the Dyslexia Phenotyping Project primarily working on imaging and math.</li> <li><a href="https://albalab.ucsf.edu/people/nick-wellman-bs">Nick Wellman</a> is a Staff Research Associate II for the Dyslexia Phenotyping Project primarily working on imaging.</li> <li><a href="https://albalab.ucsf.edu/people/gabriella-parham-cruzado-ms-slp">Gabriella Parham-Cruzado</a> is a speech-language pathologist who evaluates research participants with learning differences.</li> <li><a href="https://memory.ucsf.edu/people/melissa-brown">Melissa Brown</a> is a clinical research analyst and education specialist.</li> <li><a href="https://directory.ucsf.edu/people/search/id/152965">Bettina Pedemonte</a> is an education specialist focused on dyscalculia.</li> <li><a href="https://albalab.ucsf.edu/people/mariah-pospisil-med">Mariah Pospisil</a> is the Learning Interventions Applied Research Manager for the UCSF Dyslexia Center.</li> <li><a href="https://albalab.ucsf.edu/people/ezra-mauer-ma">Ezra Mauer</a> is a neuropsychology intern based at the Memory and Aging Center and Dyslexia Center through the UCSF Clinical Psychology Training Program.</li> <li>Christy Boesch is a Visiting Scholar from the Wright Institute under the direction of Dr. Christa Periera and Dr. Sarah Inkelis.</li> <li>Matt Davis is the lab manager at <a href="http://brainlens.org/" title="Laboratory for Educational NeuroScience (brainLENS)">brainLENS</a> in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry under the direction of Dr. Fumiko Hoeft. 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