Research Team

Andrea L. Behrman, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
Co-Director, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network
Executive Director, University of Louisville Kosair Charities Center for Pediatric NeuroRecovery

Maxwell Boakye, MD, MPH, MBA, FAANS, FACS

Associate Professor and Chief of Spinal Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery
Ole A., Mabel Wise & Wilma Wise Nelson Endowed Chair
Clinical Director Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research center
Director, Outcomes Research, Department of Neurosurgery

Beatrice Ugiliweneza, PhD, MSPH

Assistant Professor,  Department of Neurosurgery
Director of Bioinformatics Core, KSCIRC

Susan Harkema, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Anatomical Sciences & Neurobiology
Owsley B. Frazier Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation
Associate Director, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center
Director of Research, UofL Health- Frazier Rehabilitation Institute
Director, NeuroRecovery Network for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

Dena Ruth Howland, PhD

Associate Professor and Rebecca F. Hammond Endowed Chair for Spinal Cord Research
Scientific Director, Kosair Charities Center of Excellence in Pediatric NeuroRecovery

Alexander Ovechkin, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery
Frazier Rehabilitation Institute and Neuroscience Center
Laboratory of Clinical Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Neurophysiology
Phone: 502-581-8675

Daniela Terson de Paleville, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Sport Sciences
University of Louisville Exercise Physiology Graduate Assistants Supervisor

Sonja K. Bareiss, PT, Ph.D.

gratis faculty, Department of Neurological Surgery