Meet Our Team
REVEAL: Research Evaluating Vagal Excitation and Anatomical Links
Principal Investigators
John Osborn, PhD
Director, MCAN
Professor, UMN Department of Surgery
Hubert H. Lim, PhD
Professor, UMN Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD, MPH
Chair, UMN Department of Surgery
Jay Phillips Professor
Ziad Nahas, MD, MSCR
Executive Vice-Chair, Professor, UMN Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vaughan Macefield, PhD
Professor, Monash University Department of Neuroscience
Lynn Eberly, PhD
Professor, UMN Division of Biostatistics
Administrative Core
Co-Directors
John Osborn, PhD
Director, MCAN
Professor, UMN Department of Surgery
Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD, MPH
Chair, UMN Department of Surgery
Jay Phillips Professor
Clinical Core
Co-Directors
Hubert H. Lim, PhD
Professor, UMN Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Ziad Nahas, MD, MSCR
Executive Vice-Chair, Professor, UMN Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Lynn Eberly, PhD
Professor, UMN Division of Biostatistics
Thomas Henry, MD
Professor, UMN Department of Neurology
Data and Analysis Core
Co-Directors
Christopher Tignanelli, MD, MS, FACS, FAMIA
Associate Professor, UMN Department of Surgery, Division of Critical Care/Acute Care Surgery
Matthew D. Johnson, PhD
Professor and Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar, UMN Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tay Netoff, PhD
Professor, UMN Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Center for Neuroengineering
Clinical Site Principal Investigators
Mayo Clinic
Gregory Worrell, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Neurology
Washington University in St. Louis
Charles Conway, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Monash University
Terence O’Brien, MD
Chair of Medicine (Neurology)
Head of the Central Clinical School, Monash University
Sheppard Pratt
Scott Aaronson, MD
Chief Science Officer, Institute for Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Stanford University
Nolan Williams, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Mark George, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Layton McCurdy Endowed Chair in Psychiatry
Autonomic Nervous System
Manda Keller-Ross, PhD, DPT
Vaughan Macefield, PhD
Sarah Baker, PhD
Ida Fonkoue, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular System
Paul Drawz, MD
Alena Talkachova, PhD
Sam Dudley, MD
Markus Meyer, MD
Prabhjot Nijjar, MD
Metabolic and Immune Systems
Peter Crawford, MD
Bernhard Hering, MD
Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, PhD