Associate Members are investigators who work closely with one or more Center members and who have major responsibility for design, conduct, and reporting of research studies, but who have not yet reached independence in funding; and individuals who contribute greatly on an ongoing basis to research projects at Center for Neurobiology of Stress. They are reviewed periodically for advancement to full membership.
If you are interested in becoming an Associate Member, please contact Million Mulugeta, DVM, PhD at mmuluget@ucla.edu.
Associate Members are listed in alphabetical order.
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Steven Tan, MD, MTOM
Dr. Tan is one of few doctors nationwide with dual degrees, licensures and board certifications in Internal Medicine and Oriental Medicine. His expertise is promoting responsible, scientifically-grounded and effective innovations in applying integrative approaches to all aspects of health care delivery. He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Medicine (AOA honors) and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UCLA Medical Center. He obtained his Oriental Medicine degree at Emperor’s College (summa cum laude) and completed an externship in acupuncture and herbal medicine at the Hong Kong Baptist University. As Associate Faculty at the UCLA Center for Integrative Medicine and the UCLA Center for the Neurobiology of Stress, Dr. Tan performed NIH/NCCAM funded research in integrative medicine approaches for stress-related disorders. He has served as reviewer, advisor and collaborator with other investigators and for multiple peer-reviewed scientific journals. Dr. Tan also served on the External Board of Advisors to the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and Dietary Supplements Research.
9730 Wilshire Blvd Suite 102 Beverly Hills CA 90212
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Marmar Vaseghi, MD
Dr. Vaseghi is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical and Translational Research for the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at UCLA. She received her medical degree from Stanford University in 2002. Dr. Vaseghi completed her residency in internal medicine and her fellowship in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at UCLA. Dr. Vaseghi is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Internal Medicine.
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Lixin Wang, MD, PhD
Dr. Lixin Wang received her MD and PhD in neuroanatomy at Beijing University Medical School in China, where she taught human anatomy and neuroanatomy to medical students and graduate students. She did 2.5 years research on human skin innervation in the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She joined the Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine at UCLA in 1993. Her experimental research focus is on brain-gut interaction in regulation to feeding behavior and gastrointestinal transit under stress, inflammation and visceral obesity with some novel findings and pioneer works. She is the key investigator in several projects of Dr. Taché funded by NIHDDK and VA and 2 center grants by NIHDDK in Digestive Disease Division. Dr. Wang and Dr. Taché joined Dr. Chesselet several years ago to work on gut disorders in PD pre-clinical models and published one of the early papers in the field.
Danny JJ Wang, PhD
Dr. Wang obtained his PhD in Biophysics from the Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1998. He subsequently obtained postdoctoral training in MRI Biophysics and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania where he has been a Research Assistant Professor of Radiology and Neurology from 2003 to 2010. Dr. Wang also received training for clinical research with a MS of Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA as Associate Professor of Neurology with secondary appointment in Radiology in 2010. To date, Dr. Wang has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and 13 book chapters/review articles (h-index=40), and has served on grant review panels for NIH, NSF and UK MRC. He has also been supporting the scientific community by disseminating arterial spin labeling sequences to over 150 Siemens imaging research centers around the world as well as the Complexity software toolbox for resting state fMRI analysis (http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/ext/#Complexity). Overall, Dr. Wang’s research can be summarized as technical development and clinical translations of novel MRI technologies with a focus on physiologic, metabolic and functional brain imaging.
Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center 660 Charles E. Young Dr South Los Angeles CA 90095