P. Hunter Peckham, PhD
Dr. Peckham is a biomedical engineer and is Chairman of the Steering Committee. He will be the site host of this meeting. He is the Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University, Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Functional  Electrical Stimulation Center, and Director of the Ohio Neuromodulation and Neurostimulation Biomedical Research and Commercialization Program, and Director of Orthopaedic Research at MetroHealth Medical Center. He has led the development of implantable neuroprostheses and their introduction through clinical trials into clinical use.

Ravi Bellamkonda, PhD
Dr. Bellamkonda is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is developing scaffolds for peripheral nerve regeneration, and in developing receptor targeted nano-scale drug delivery vehicles for treatment of brain tumors. He is also developing interfacing technologies that will better integrate external electronics to the nervous system.

Dominique Durand PhD
Dr. Durand is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He uses computational neuroscience, engineering and electrophysiology to solve problems in the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Warren M. Grill, PhD
Dr. Grill is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Dr. Grill's research involves design and testing of electrodes and stimulation techniques, the electrical properties of tissue and cells, and computational neuroscience with applications in restoration of the bladder function, treatment of movement disorders with deep brain stimulation, and multi-joint limb movement.

Ranu Jung, PhD
Dr. Jung is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University. Her research is in understanding neuromotor organization, developing biomimetic and biohybrid living hardware systems for motor control, developing strategies for neuromotor therapy, and examining the effects of neurotrama and other neurodegenerative disease on health and function.

Patricia A. Leake, PhD
Dr. Leake is the Georgia G. Sullivan Chair in Hearing Research Director of the Saul and Ida Epstein Laboratory in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of California San Francisco. She studies the mechanisms underlying the development of neural connections from the cochlea to the auditory CNS brainstem cochlear nuclei. Her research focuses on improving cochlear implants and their neurotrophic effects on the developing auditory nervous system.

Joseph J. Pancrazio, PhD
Dr. Pancrazio is a biomedical engineer and serves as the Program Director for Neural Engineering at the NINDS. His primary research interests include neuroprosthesis, neural repair technologies and biomaterials, and neural information processing and control.

Jerrold Vitek MD, PhD
Dr. Vitek is a neurologist and staff at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. His interests are the medical and surgical treatment of movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, dystonia, essential tremor, mechanisms of DBS (Deep Brain Simulation) and the pathophysiology of movement disorders.

James Weiland, PhD
Dr. Weiland is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California. Dr. Weiland's interests include retinal prostheses, neural prostheses, electrode technology, visual evoked responses and implantable electrical systems.