SciTS 2014 Conference
 
2014 SciTS Keynote Panel
L. Michelle Bennett, Ph.D.

Dr. L. Michelle Bennett is the Deputy Scientific Director for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), in Bethesda, Maryland. The NHLBI Division of Intramural Research comprises approximately 60 intramural scientists and clinicians working in basic, translational and clinical research. Dr. Bennett is responsible for scientific programmatic oversight, strategic planning, and implementing strategies to support the research mission.

Prior to joining the NHLBI in June of 2010, Dr. Bennett was a Deputy Director at the Center for Cancer Research (CCR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), with more than 250 intramural scientists and clinicians working in basic, translational and clinical research. Dr. Bennett headed up strategic planning, developed and implemented projects and activities that cut across a broad range of scientific areas in order to enrich the Center’s work environment and accelerate research progress.

    

Stuart Lynn

Stuart initially studied mathematical physics at Edinburgh University before deciding astronomy was prettier and easier to explain in bars and obtained a Ph.D. in astrophysics. He currently works at the Adler Planetarium as the technical lead of the Zooniverse: the largest collection of online citizen science projects. He is passionate about getting everyone involved in doing real science and making real discoveries online.

  

Chris Berka

CEO and Co-Founder of Advanced Brain Monitoring, Inc.

Chris Berka is the CEO and Co-Founder at Advanced Brain Monitoring (ABM). She has over 25 years experience managing clinical research and developing and commercializing new technologies, is co-inventor of eleven patented and 14 patent-pending technologies, and served as the principal investigator or co-investigator for grants & contracts awarded by the National Institutes of Health, DARPA, ONR and NSF that provided more than $30 million of research funds to ABM.
Prior to founding ABM, Ms. Berka played a key role in the growth of an AMEX public company that patented and commercialized a forensic hair test for psychopharmacological profiles of drug use. She has 10 years experience as a research scientist with publications on the analysis of the EEG correlates of cognition in healthy subjects and patients with sleep and neurological disorders. She received her BA with distinction in Psychology/Biology at Ohio State University and completed graduate studies in Neuroscience at UCSD.                                   

   


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