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.
Rudolph Tanzi, PhDCo-Founder & Director
Gregory Fricchione, MDCo-Founder & Co-Director
Jonathan Rosand, MDCo-Founder
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, MPHMedical Director
McCance Center Team
Christopher D. Anderson, MD, MMSc
Ana Griciuc, PhD
Leidys Gutierrez-Martinez, MD, MSc
Doo Yeon Kim, PhD
Valdery “Junior” Moura Junior, MS, MBA
Samaneh Nasiri Ghosheh Bolagh, PhD, MSc
Amy Newhouse, MD
Livia Parodi, PhDDominque Popescu, PhD
Dmitry Prokopenko, PhD
Luisa Quinti, PhDHira Shrestha
M. Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
Nirupama Yechoor, MD, MSc
Can (Martin) Zhang, MD, PhDExternal Advisory Board
Leon PalandjianChief Risk Officer, Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation
Lawrence H. (Larry) SummersCharles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University and former Secretary of the US Department of the Treasury
Michelle A. WilliamsAngelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development and Dean of Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
McCance-Affiliated Faculty
Mark Albers, MD, PhD
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
Bastien Guerin, PhDLeidys Gutierrez-Martinez, MD, MSc
Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, PhD
Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD
Daphne Holt, MD, PhD
Jin Jing, PhD
Ksenia Kastanenka, PhD
Dora Kovacs, PhD
Jacqueline Lane, PhD
Sara Lazar, PhD
Jenny Linnoila, MD, PhD
Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH
Eric Minikel, PhD
Uma Naidoo, MBCHB
Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam, PhD
Andrew A. Nierenberg, MD
Olivia Okereke, MD, MS
Joseph Park, PhDLivia Parodi, PhD
Marie Pasinski, MD
Shaun Patel, PhDDominque Popescu, PhD
Yakeel Quiroz, PhD
Pamela Rist, ScD
Joshua L. Roffman, MD
Richa Saxena, PhDHira Shrestha
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, DVMSupport Our Work
The McCance Center for Brain Health has embraced a radically new approach to preventing brain disease and promoting brain health across the lifespan. We convene the best in research and clinical care in order to identify and integrate crucial scientific discoveries that to reduce the incidence and suffering of brain disease around the globe.