People
Dr. Robert Neumar, MD PhD - Director
Dr. Neumar is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he is also a faculty member of the Mahoney Institute of Neuroscience and the Neuroscience Graduate Group. In addition, Dr. Neumar serves on the steering committee of the Penn Center for Brain Injury and Repair.
Dr. Neumar obtained his MD in 1990 from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed residency training in Emergency Medicine. His formal research training includes a Sarnoff Fellowship with Charles G. Brown at Ohio State University, a Critical Care Research Fellowship under the direction of Peter Safar at the University of Pittsburgh Resuscitation Research Center, and an Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship under the direction of Blaine White at Wayne State University where he obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology.
Joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania the in 1997, Dr. Neumar began building a laboratory focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms of acute brain injury with the ultimate goal of reducing brain damage after stroke, cardiac arrest and head trauma. Dr. Neumar's research has been funded through the NIH, American Heart Association, and private foundations. Consistent with the multidisciplinary nature of this line of investigation, Dr. Neumar has developed extensive collaborative relationships with investigators both within and outside the institution. Trainees working in the laboratory have included undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students, emergency medicine residents and research fellows, and post-doctoral researchers.
Dr. Neumar currently serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Committee, the American Heart Association ACLS subcommittee, and the NIH Center for Scientific Review BDCN-F11 Neuropharmacology Study Section. He also serves as a Consulting Editor on the Annals of Emergency Medicine Editorial Board. Dr. Neumar has previously chaired the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Review Committee, the Research Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Scientific Sub-Committee of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Program Committee.
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Lori Ingleton, BS - Research Specialist
Lori is a 2004 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Psychology. As an undergraduate, she completed an independent study at Penn's Head Injury Center where she examined behavioral outcomes in an animal model of traumatic brain injury. She joined the Neumar lab as a post-baccaulaureate research trainee in 2004, and has been working on the lab's animal model of transient forebrain ischemia. Her training program is funded under a supplement to Dr. Neumar's R01
Marek Ma, MD - Fellow
Dr. Ma is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Medicine and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. In 2006, Dr. Ma completed the Molecular Brain Resuscitation Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, which was funded by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Dr. Ma's studies focusing on traumatic axonal injury are currently supported by an NINDS K08 Career Development Award.
Che Dong Fang - Fellow
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Matt Bevers, BA - Graduate Student
Mr. Bevers graduated from Amherst College in 2001 with a degree in Neuroscience. Following a post-baccalaureate intramural research fellowship at NINDS, he entered the combined MD/PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. Mr. Bevers began his dissertation work in the Neumar laboratory in 2005, and is using viral-vector mediated RNA interference to study the role of calpain isoforms in excitotoxic and ischemic neuronal injury. His work is supported by an American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship.
Former Lab Members
Post-docs/Fellows
Xiaoming Chen, PhDJim Martin, MD PhD
Chen Zhang, MD PhD
Frank Meng, PhD
Angela Mills, MD
Research Specialists/Technicians
Brian MatthewsEric Lawrence
Alex Pitts-Keifer
Jim Frederick
Anne Xu
Students
Elizabeth DaltonNikita Deshpande
Mehul Bhatt
Neil Masansky
Mike Amesquita
Ali Harrist
Rex Parker
Dan Fiedman
Diana Kontonotas
Michelle Williams
Hemal Gada
Charles Gillman
Mike Zhang
Olueke Zaccheu