Alumni Directory

Building a solid alumni network to foster cross-communications, and connections to our program and current students, is important to us. We maintain these relationships through events, communications and opportunities for alumni to return to NGP and speak to our students about career paths, personal experience, research, and mentoring. The Neuroscience Alumni Network serves one important tool we use to maintain these important and valued relationships.

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Name Graduation Year Current Position Category Current Location
Patricia Garay
2021
Patricia Backoff
1991
Audiologist
Private sector
Michigan
Paresh Patel
1990
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Academic
Michigan
Nicholas Silva
2018
Post Doc University of California San Francisco
Academic
California
Natela Shandize
2011
Post Doc-Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Academic
California
Mohamed Farah
2003
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Johns Hopkins University
Academic
Maryland
Michelle Ostrander
2001
Product manager, Hayes, Inc
Private sector
Pennsylvania
Michelle Kron-Gray
2010
Physician, Wheaton Eye Clinic
Private sector
Illinois
Michael Steketee
2000
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Academic
Pennsylvania
Michael Manookin
2009
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, University of Washington
Academic
Washington
Michael Lehman
1982
Professor/Chair of Neuroscience Institute, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Academic
Mississippi
Michael Brito
2021
Advanced Data Science Fellow
Academic
California
Merritt Taylor
2001
Associate Professor, Biomedical Science, Grand Valley State University
Academic
Michigan
Melisa Carrasco
2012
Pediatric Neurology Resident, Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland Medical Center
Academic
Maryland
Meir Steiner
1979
Professor Emeritus, McMaster University; Professor, University of Toronto, Canada; Adjunct Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children
Academic
Canada
Megan Nelson
2021
Megan Hagenauer
2010
Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Michigan
Academic
Michigan
Megan Greenwald-Yarnell
2013
Research Scientist
Private sector
New Mexico
Matthew Veldman
2007
Research Scientist, Semel Institute at UCLA
Academic
California
Matthew Elrick
2011
Resident, Child Neurology, Johns Hopkins
Academic
Maryland