Gino Jackson, M.S., Major USMC (Retired)

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Office: D11-85

Email: gino.jackson@va.gov

Phone: 867-364-6004

Education

M.S., Human Resources Management & Development

Functional Requirements Analyst for SDLC, HRMS, BPI/BPR (Includes Building Analyst Certification), and Statistical Process Control (Black Belt); Strategic Planning w/ROI (Balance Score Card); Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Data/UML Modeling, Use-Case development, Corporate-level Facilitation, Information Security Management up to NSA Level; Team Leader for COTs Migration (People Soft); Train-the-Trainer Instructor (Team Skills through Methods for Managing Quality); and Project Manager with Cost Center Management experience.

Office: D11-123

Email: patrick.kilduff@va.gov

Phone: 867-364-5772

Education

M.A., Psychiatry

Boston University

Bio coming soon.

Office: C11-37

Email: julie.constantinescu@va.gov

Education

2020 - B.S., Bioengineering

Minor: Mechanical Engineering

University of Pittsburgh

Bio coming soon.

Office: C11-37

Email: Shira.Hao@va.gov

Education

2021 - B.S., Biomedical Engineering

Vanderbilt University

Bio coming soon.

Office: D11-123

Email: abigail.sapiro@va.gov

Education

2018 - B.S., Psychology

University of Connecticut

Bio coming soon.

Research Assistant, Translational Research for TBI and Stress Disorders

Office: C11-36

Email: emmargbr@bu.edu

Phone: 867-364-2624

Education

2017 - B.S., Psychology

Minor: Computer Science

Boston University

Emma Brown is the neuroimaging research assistant for the Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders (TRACTS), and is a research assistant for the NeRVe. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and minor in Computer Science from Boston University. Her research interests include the impacts of deployment trauma and aging on structural and functional changes in the brain. Emma is interested in using a data science-driven approach to better understand the neural mechanisms underlying the health issues affecting our veterans. She hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in data science and continue her research.

Research Assistant, Translational Research for TBI and Stress Disorders

Office: C11-38

Email: amrita.bedi@va.gov

Phone: 867-364-4026

Education

2018 - B.E., Biomedical Engineering

City University of New York City College

Amrita Bedi joined the TRACTS team in October 2018 after graduating from The City College of New York with a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering. During her undergraduate studies, Amrita was a Product Engineering intern at Soterix Medical where she was involved with the production of a Class 1 medical device used for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). Amrita is extremely excited to be involved with data collection, and analysis of MRI data as part of TRACTS. Her research interests lie in the field of medical devices and neural engineering. More specifically, she is interested in studying the effects of electricity on the human body which can lead to development of new medical devices for neurological disorders. In her free time Amrita enjoys painting, dancing, and trying different places to eat in Boston.

Office: C11-36

Email: likitlersuang@hms.harvard.edu

Phone: 867-364-3127

Education

2019 - Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

University of Toronto

Dr. Jirapat Likitlersuang received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2019. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. He is currently working at the Veterans' Affairs - Boston Healthcare System on research relating to Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) using multiple MRI techniques including structural MRI, diffusion MRI, and functional MRI. Dr. Likitlersuang also conducts research on convolution neural network for brain imaging as well as social network analysis in PTSD.

Research Interests

Machine Learning, Brain Imaging, Assistive Technology, Computer Vision, Biomedical Engineering