BHI Strategic Planning Committee

The Brain Health Institute (BHI) is embarking on a planning and priority-setting process to develop a strategic plan that will guide the Institute’s growth and success for years to come. In the Fall 2023, we have assembled a Strategic Planning Committee to steer this process and have begun to engage the membership at all levels during the BHI Symposium in November.

1

Gary Aston Jones PhD

Director, BHI
Murray and Charlotte Strongwater Endowed Chair in Neuroscience and Brain Health

2

Ioana Carcea, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, NJMS

3

Robin L. Davis, PhD

Associate Director, BHI
Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Vice-chair, BHI Cognitive & Sensory Neuroscience Working Group

4

Danielle Dick, PhD

Director, Rutgers Addiction Research Center
Professor of Psychiatry, RWJMS
Chair, BHI Motivational & Affective Neuroscience Working Group

5

Cheryl Dreyfus, PhD

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, RWJMS

6

Eldo Kuzhikandathil, PhD

Executive Director of Administration, BHI

7

Steven Levison, PhD 

Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, NJMS
Vice-chair, BHI Neurodegeneration & Injury Working Group

8

M. Chiara Manzini, PhD

Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, RWJMS
Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee
Vice-chair, BHI Neurodevelopment Working Group

9

Jacqueline Mattis, PhD

Dean of Faculty, Rutgers – Newark
Professor of Psychology

10

Jennifer Mulle, MHS PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, RWJMS

11

Zhiping Pang, MD PhD

Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, RWJMS
Vice-chair, BHI Motivational & Affective Neuroscience Working Group

 

12

Tibor Rohacs, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, NJMS

13

Yuanxiang Tao, MD PhD

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Anesthesiology, NJMS

14

Christine Goldthwaite, PhD

Assistant Director, Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership
Assistance with strategic planning

15

Brent Ruben, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Communication, Advisor for Strategy and Planning of the Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Rutgers Center for Organizational Leadership 
Assistance with strategic planning