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

+ contributions and collaborations from over 40 co-investigators