Alumni

Principal and Associate Investigators

Ruben Alvarez
Assistant Professor, 2009-2015

Current Position
Program Director, Languages, Bilingualism and Biliteracy Program, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH

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Hamed Ekhtiari
Post-doctoral Fellow, 2015-2018
Associate Investigator, 2018-2021

Current Position
Psychiatry Resident in the Physician-Scientist Track at the University of Minnesota

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Kymberly Young
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2010-2016
Associate Investigator, 2014-2016

Current Position
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
​University of Pittsburgh

Patrick Bellgowan
Associate Professor, 2008-2014

Current Position
Deputy Associate Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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Paul Hamilton
Assistant Professor, 2012-2015

Current Position
Senior Lecturer, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Linköping University 

Wayne Drevets
Scientific Director and President,
2009-2013

Current Position
Scientific Vice President and Disease Area Leader, Mood Disorders, Janssen Pharmaceuticals of J & J

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Ikuko Mukai-Cheh
Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2012-2014
Associate Investigator, 2014-2015

Current Position
Medical Student Researcher, Oklahoma State University, Center for Health Sciences

Justin Feinstein
Director, Float Clinic and Research Center, 2013-2020

​Current Position
Clinical Neuropsychologist, Clinical Floatation

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Kyle Simmons
Associate Professor, 2009-2018

Current Position
Director, Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center, and Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology