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.

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.

Jamie Henderson, MD
Stanford University

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Diane Hoffman-Kim, PhD
Brown University

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Mark S. Humayun, MD, PhD
Dr. Humayun is a member of the National Academies of Medicine, Cornelius J. Pings Chair in Biomedical Sciences and professor of Ophthalmology at the USC Doheny Eye Institute and the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Director of both National Science Foundation BioMimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center and the Department of Energy Artificial Retina Project. Dr. Humayun’s research focuses on the treatment of the most debilitating and challenging eye diseases through advanced engineering.

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.

Krishna Shenoy, PhD
Stanford University

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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.