Advisors

Professor Lea Williams - Sydney 
Dr. Lea Williams is a Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at Sydney Medical School-Western, University of Sydney, and Director of the Brain Dynamics Center (BDC) of Westmead Millennium Institute and University of Sydney. She is currently a Pfizer senior research fellow. Lea is also Convenor of the first international collaborative network on human brain and brain-related disorder research (BRAINnet; http://www.brainnet.net/)  She is a multi awarded lecturer and scientist and has published extensively. Her research group focuses on disorders of the brain systems that regulate motivation and emotion.

John P. Docherty, MD - New York
Dr. Docherty is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College, Cornell University and Director of Post Graduate Education. Trained as a clinical research fellow in neuropsychopharmacology at NIMH, he later returned as Chief of the Psychosocial Treatments Research Branch, responsible for all federally supported psychosocial treatment research in mental health nationwide. He oversaw the landmark National Collaborative Study in the Treatment of Depression and served as a member and Chairman for over 10 years on the NIMH and then NIDA Treatment Research IRGs.  Dr. Docherty has wide experience in successfully implementing innovation in both clinical and managed health care. He founded Northeast Psychiatric Associates in 1985. As National Medical Director for National Medical Enterprises, he oversaw medical control and quality improvement in 74 hospitals in 34 states. He was the Executive Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer for Merit Behavioral Care, which then covered 30 million people. In 1998, he founded Comprehensive NeuroScience (CNS). Its Care Management Technologies are currently implemented in 17 state Medicaid plans. Dr Docherty has received numerous honors and awards and has authored over 100 scientific publications. 

Stephen H.Koslow, PhD - New York
Dr. Koslow provides consultant science advisory services on personalized medicine to Brain Resource Limited. He is Research Director for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In 1982 he was appointed as the first Director of the Neuroscience Research Branch at the NIMH where he was responsible for initiating new research programs including Human Brain Imaging using non-invasive methods. During the “Decade of the Brain” (1990 -2000), Dr. Koslow created the NIMH report to Congress on Research Opportunities for Neuroscience which clearly articulated research opportunities and fifty important questions to be answered. In 1993, Dr. Koslow initiated the multi-Agency initiative on the Human Brain Project (HBP) to establish an enabling electronic communication computer based distributed database and knowledge management system for the neuroscience community. In 1999 Dr. Koslow was appointed as the first Director of the Office on Neuroinformatics and an Associate Director of the NIMH. He continues to serve as the chair of the Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on the HBP (FICC-HBP) having worked to extend the HBP globally using the term 'Neuroinformatics'. Following work with OECD committees he established an International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He has also served as the Director of External Relations at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Dr. Koslow has 72 publications in referred journals, 20 invited chapters in books and has edited 13 books, including “Databasing the Brain”.  He serves on the editorial board of numerous Neuroscience journals and consults to a number of private organizations, businesses and foreign governments. 

Professor Richard Clark – Flinders
Dr Richard Clark is Professor and Head of the School of Psychology at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Dr Clark is also Director of the University’s Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory/Clinic and is a neuropsychologist in private practice. He has received over $8 million in grant funding including an ARC Linkage Grant in ADHD and an NHMRC program grant in post-traumatic mental health, and has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. He is a past-President of the Australasian Society for Psychophysiology and Patron of the Brain Injury Network of South Australia.

Professor Anthony Sinskey – MIT
Professor of Biology and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He is also the Co-director of MIT's interdisciplinary program on the Pharmaceutical Industry. He has participated in the founding and development of over 15 biotechnology companies including Metabolix, Genzyme, OSI Pharmaceuticals, Tepha, ABEC, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals. He serves on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of around ten companies. He is recognized as a leading expert in the formation of new biotechnology enterprises, and a renowned academic entrepreneur.

Professor Ed Bullmore – Cambridge
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. He has a strong track record in the development of MRI and fMRI analysis techniques, and their application to psychiatric disorders including the psychopharmacological effects on brain function, and the integration of imaging and genetics.