Staff affiliated with the Center for Cognitive Medicine
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Lisa Ankeny, BA
Research Coordinator
Lisa conducts cognitive, neurophysiological and brain imaging studies with
children and adults diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. She is
particularly interested in emotion regulation in children with developmental
disorders.
(312) 413-8736
lankeny@psych.uic.edu
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Catherine L. Batscha MSN, PMHCNS, BC
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Catherine Batscha is a clinical staff person in the Psychotic Disorders Program
and adjunct faculty at the College of Nursing. She provides initial evaluations,
psychotherapy and medication management services for people receiving services
in the First Episode Psychosis Clinic and for persons receiving clozapine. She
is also a clinician for in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis
program.
312-355-4901
cbatscha@psych.uic.edu
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Jill Breit, BS
Research Coordinator
Jill conducts neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies involving
hormones and cognition. She is primarily interested in hormonal influences on
memory, mood, and behavior in women.
(312) 355-5652
jbreit@psych.uic.edu
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Erin Eatough, BA
Research Coordinator
Erin conducts neuropsychological, neurophysiological, and brain imaging studies
involving hormones and cognition. She is primarily interested in hormonal
influences on behavior and mood in women.
(312) 355-5652
eeatough@psych.uic.edu
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Ginny Griffin, BA
Research Coordinator
Ginny conducts behavioral, neuropsychological, and brain imaging studies
with patients suffering from schizophrenia. Her main research interests are in
investigating the effects of pharmacological treatments on cognition, and
integrating neuropsychological/cognitive neuroscience approaches to evaluating
pharmacological agents.
(312) 413-3975
ggriffin@psych.uic.edu
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Erin Harral, BA
Research Manager
Erin conducts cognitive, psychopharmacological and brain imaging studies
with pediatric bipolar disordered and attention-deficit children. She is
interested in treatment outcomes and neuroaffective circuitry.
(312) 413-1710
eharral@psych.uic.edu
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Jami Huynh, LCSW
B-SNIP Research Study Coordinator
Jami is the coordinator and clinical evaluator for the B-SNIP research
study, a large-scale study examining traits that run in individuals and families
affected by schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. She conducts clinical
evaluations for patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and their
unaffected family members.
(312) 355-5549
jhoneyman@psych.uic.edu
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Tin Khine, MS
Research Data Analyst
Tin is the network adminstrator. She develops programs for statistical data
analysis of neuropsychological and eye movement studies.
(312) 413-1937
tkhine@psych.uic.edu
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Kush Kapur, MS
Research Assistant
Kush is a candidate for PhD in Biostatistics at University of Illinois at
Chicago. He received his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering at
University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include
mixed-effect models especially for longitudinal data, time-series
analysis, missing data and the application of statistics in the field
of fMRI. Kush has been involved in diverse statistical research projects
in health sciences field under the guidance of Drs. Bhaumik and Gibbons.
The list of projects include testing problems of a gamma random variate,
sample size determination for non-linear mixed effects regression models,
and estimation, modeling and testing procedures for fMRI event related
designs. He is also co-author of two software fMRIviewer and MIXZIP.
fMRIviewer allows the user to analyze fMRI event-related designs using
random-effects regression models. MIXZIP allows the user to estimate
mixed-effects Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression models using the
maximum marginal likelihood approach.
(312) 413-4610
kkapur@psych.uic.edu
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Marion Malcome, LCSW
Psychiatric Social Worker
Marion works in the Psychotic Disorders Program where she provides family
psychoeducation, services consultation and supportive therapy for individuals
with chronic mental illnesses. She also conducts clinical assessments and
ensures continuity of care and engagement for individuals involved in the First
Episode Psychosis program, a specialty service of the Psychotic Disorders
Program. She is also a clinical evaluator for the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network
on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP), a large-scale study examining traits that
run in individuals and families affected by schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
She conducts clinical evaluations for patients with schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder and their family members.
(312) 413-4638
mmalcome@psych.uic.edu
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Bruce McDonough, PhD
Senior Research Specialist
Dr. McDonough mostly does analysis of eye movement data for schizophrenia and
childhood autism studies.
(312) 996-0363
bmcdonough@psych.uic.edu
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Rupal Satra
Research and Clinical Coordinator
(312) 413-1722
rsatra@psych.uic.edu
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Christian A. Rodriguez, BA
Research Coordinator
Christian conducts cognitive, neurophysiological and brain imaging studies with
Schizophrenia and Psychotic Bipolar Disorder patients. Besides his interest in
the endophenotypes of these disorders he is interested in the neural basis of
decision making processes.
(312) 996–3813
crodriguez@psych.uic.edu
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Antonia Savarese, BS
Research Coordinator
Antonia conducts neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies involving
hormones and cognition. She is primarily interested in hormonal influences on
memory, mood, and behavior in women.
(312) 355-5652
asavarese@psych.uic.edu
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Sunil Shrestha, MS
Research Data Analyst
Sunil develops databases, flash movies, and the center's website.
(312) 413-3722
sshrestha@psych.uic.edu
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Courtney Stefanski
B-SNIP Research Coordinator
cstefanski@psych.uic.edu
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Kimberly Skinner, BS
Program Administrator
Kim is the administrative director for the Center for Cognitive Medicine. Some
of her responsibilities include the coordination of grants and contracts,
monitoring Center budgets and ensuring that the Center complies with University
policies and procedures.
(312) 355-1582
kskinner@psych.uic.edu
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Pamela Towers, BA
Coordinator
(312) 996-0758
ptowers@psych.uic.edu
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Shen Wang, MS
Systems Consultant
Shen assists in administration of the Linux cluster used for brain image data
storage and analysis, and with updating software for eye movement data analysis.
(312) 413-9637
swang@psych.uic.edu
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Brian Wolfe, MA
Research Assistant, First Episode Psychosis
Brian conducts neuropsychological, brain imaging, and eye movement tests for
the First Episode Psychosis research protocol. His research interests focus on
the optimization of psychotropic medication management and adherence, primarily
as it relates to antipsychotic medication treatment effects.
(312) 413-8736
bwolfe@psych.uic.edu
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