Our Team

Scientific Advisory Board

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  Jacqueline A. French, MD

  Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

  Dr. French is a professor at the NYU Department of Neurology and Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and founder/director of the Epilepsy Study Consortium. She also serves as chief scientific officer at the Epilepsy Foundation and lectures internationally on clinical trials and the use of antiepileptic drugs. Dr. French is past president of the American Epilepsy Society. She earned her MD from Brown University School of Medicine.

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  Maurizio Fava, MD

  Psychiatrist-In-Chief, Department of Psychiatry, MGH

  Dr. Fava founded MGH’s Depression Clinical and Research Program (DCRP) and was director from 1990 to 2014. Under his direction, the DCRP became one of the most highly regarded depression programs in the country. In 2007, Dr. Fava founded the Mass General Psychiatry Clinical Trials Network and Institute, where he serves as executive director. Dr. Fava received his MD from the University of Padova School of Medicine.

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  Thomas Roth, PhD

  Director, Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Henry Ford Hospital

  Dr. Roth has been director of the Sleep Disorders and Research Center since 1978. He was instrumental in the formation of the Association of Sleep Disorders Center (ASDC), serving as the organization’s second president. Dr. Roth won the National Sleep Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to sleep science, sleep medicine, and public health. He received his doctorate from the University of Cincinnati.

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  Andrew Krystal, MD

  Professor, University of California, San Francisco

  Dr. Krystal is a professor of psychiatry at the UCSF School of Medicine’s Weill Institute for Neuroscience. He is a pioneer in the application of computational modeling to aid the study of biomarker development using EEG in patients with depression and sleep disorders. Dr. Krystal has been principal investigator of more than 50 single-site and multi-site clinical trials. He received his MD from Duke University School of Medicine.

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  Elaine C. Wirrell, MD

  Director of Pediatric Epilepsy, Mayo Clinic

  Dr. Wirrell’s clinical focus includes early-onset epilepsies and epileptic encephalopathies and medically intractable pediatric epilepsy. She is co-founder of the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium, a multicenter group of pediatric epileptologists who collaborate on clinical research in early-life epilepsies. Dr. Wirrell is director of the Child and Adolescent Neurology Residency Training Program at Mayo Clinic. She received her MD at the University of British Columbia.

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  Dennis Dlugos, MD

  Pediatric Neurologist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

  Dr. Dlugos is a professor of neurology and pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds the CHOP Tristram C. Colket, Jr. Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurology. Epilepsy genetics, pharmacogenetics, intensive Care EEG monitoring, and epilepsy surgery are among his research interests. Dr. Dlugos received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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  Brendan P. Lucey, MD

  Associate Professor, Washington University

  In addition to his role as an associate professor of neurology, Dr. Lucey is director of Washington University’s Sleep Medicine Center. His research focuses on sleep and Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Lucey currently is heading a study on whether using medication to treat sleep problems in older adults can reduce signs of early Alzheimer’s. He received his MD from Johns Hopkins University.

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  Andrew J. Cole, MD

  Director, MGH Epilepsy Service

  Dr. Cole is chief of the Division of Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. He joined Massachusetts General Hospital in 1992, starting and developing the MGH Epilepsy Service and founding the MGH Pediatric Epilepsy Service. Dr. Cole has published extensively in clinical neurology, epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology and basic neuroscience. He received his MD from Dartmouth Medical School.

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  Brian Litt, MD

  Professor, University of Pennsylvania

  A neurologist and entrepreneur, Dr. Litt is a professor of neurology and professor of bioengineering in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He cofounded two companies (IntelliMedix and Bioquantix), has helped bring several implantable neuro devices to market, and has licensed technology to several companies. Dr. Litt received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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  Robert J. Thomas, MD

  Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

  An associate professor at Harvard Medical School’s Division of Sleep Medicine, Dr. Thomas also is a practicing physician specializing in pulmonary disease and sleep medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Thomas is a visiting scientist at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, at Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned his MD at Madras University School of Medicine.