Director
Udai Bhan Pandey, PhD
Director, Children’s Neuroscience Institute
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Human Genetics and Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Administrator and Program Manager
Felicia Bender-Stewart, MA, EdD
Administrator and Program Manager, Children’s Neuroscience Institute, Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Associate Directors
Ira Bergman, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Child Neurology, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Interim Chief, Division of Child Development, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Program Director, Child Neurology Residency, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Ronald L. and Patricia M. Violi Endowed Chair in Child Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Robert Clark, MD
Vice Chair for Pediatric Critical Care
Endowed Chair for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Brain Care Institute
Associate Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Professor, Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Ian Pollack, MD
Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery
Co-director, Brain Tumor Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Distinguished Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Leland Albright Professorship in Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Executive Advisory Board
Terence Dermody, MD
Vira I. Heinz Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Member; Graduate Program in Microbiology and Immunology (PMI) Member; Integrative Systems Biology (ISB) Graduate Program Physician-in-Chief and Scientific Director, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Ivet Bahar, PhD
Distinguished Professor, John K. Vries Chair
Founding Chair, Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine
Charlene T. Chu, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair, Faculty Development & Mentorship in the Department of Pathology
A. Juilio Martines Chair, Neuropathology
Director, Ophthalmic Pathology Service in the Division of Neuropathology
Co-Director, Pathologist Investigator Residency/Research Training Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Valerian Kagan, PhD, DSc
Professor and Vice-Chairman in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health; Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, and the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.
Patrick Kochanek, MD, MCCM
Vice Chair, Critical Care Medicine
Professor Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Pediatrics
Ake N. Grenvik Endowed Chair, Critical Care Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Director, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research
Director, Training in Pediatric Neuro-intensive Care and Resuscitation Research