Our Team at the McCance Center for Brain Health

The McCance Center for Brain Health at Massachusetts General Hospital was founded by a neurologist, neuroscientist and psychiatrist, with the support of visionary philanthropists, to catalyze integration and collaboration in preventing brain disease.

Jonathan Rosand, MD, MSc
Co-Founder & Managing Co-Director
Meet Dr. Rosand

Rudolph Tanzi, PhD
Co-Founder & Co-Director

Gregory Fricchione, MD
Co-Founder & Co-Director

Leadership

The center brings together teams and colleagues from around the world to work together. Our partners span the globe and we are always in search of creative collaborators and institutions that share our commitment.

Zeina Chemali, MD, MPH
Medical Director

M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
Director of Data Sciences

Valdery “Junior” Moura Junior, MS, MBA
Director of Data Sciences Technology

Gene Bowman, ND, MPH
Clinical Trials Director

External Advisory Board

Henry McCance
Founding Board Member and Co-Chairman of Cure Alzheimer’s Fund

Howard Cox
Director, Brown Advisory and Special Limited Partner, Greylock Partners

Leon Palandjian
Chief Risk Officer, Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation

Tracy Palandjian
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Social Finance

William (Bill) Sahlman
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School

Lawrence H. (Larry) Summers
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University and former Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury

Anthony (Tony) Tjan
CEO and Managing Partner, Cue Ball

Michelle A. Williams
Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development and Dean of Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Strategic Advisor

Pete Maulik
Managing Partner, Fahrenheit 212

 

 

 

Faculty

Mark Albers, MD, PhD

Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MMSc

Ken Arai, PhD

Steven E. Arnold, MD

Alessandro Biffi, MD

Raja Bhattacharyya, PhD

Joan A. Camprodon, MD, MPH, PhD

Se Hoon Choi, PhD

Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc

Brad Dickerson, MD

Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH

William Eimer, PhD

Maurizio Fava, MD

Jill M. Goldstein

Randy Gollub, MD, PhD

Ana Griciuc, PhD

Bastien Guerin, PhD

Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, PhD

Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD

Daphne Holt, MD, PhD

Jin Jing, PhD

Ksenia Kastanenka, PhD

Doo Yeon Kim, PhD

Dora Kovacs, PhD

Jacqueline Lane, PhD

Sara Lazar, PhD

Jenny Linnoila, MD, PhD

Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH

Eric Minikel, PhD

Uma Naidoo, MBCHB

Samaneh Nasiri Ghosheh Bolagh, PhD, MSc

Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam, PhD

Amy Newhouse, MD

Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD

Olivia Okereke, MD, MS

Joseph Park, PhD

Marie Pasinski, MD

Shaun Patel, PhD

Dmitry Prokopenko, PhD

Luisa Quinti, PhD

Yakeel Quiroz, PhD

Pamela Rist, ScD

Joshua L. Roffman, MD

Richa Saxena, PhD

Reisa Sperling, MD

Jaehong Suh, PhD

Haoqi Sun, PhD

Sonia Vallabh, PhD

Aleks Videnovic, MD

Deepak Kumar Vijaya Kumar, PhD

Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD

Wilma Wasco, PhD

Anne-Marie Wills, MD, MPH

Christiane Wrann, PhD, DVM

Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSc

Can (Martin) Zhang, MD, PhD

Physicians

The clinical team at the McCance Center is led by Dr. Zeina Chemali, MD MPH, Director of the McCance Center’s Clinical Programs, who is dual-trained in Psychiatry and Neurology. Meet our doctors