Moody Brain Health Institute

Internal Advisory Committee

Bringing together leaders from across UTMB to provide strategic guidance, foster collaboration, and advance the mission of the Moody Brain Health Institute.

Thomas Blackwell, MD, FACP

Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
Professor, Division of General Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine

Kathryn A. Cunningham, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair,
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Chauncey Leake Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology
Professor of Pharmacology Director, Center for Addiction Sciences and Therapeutics (CAST)

Vineet Gupta, PhD

Vice President for Innovation &,
Technology Development and Transfer
Professor, Division of Nephrology,
Department of Internal Medicine

Salim Hayek, MD

Chief Transformation Officer
Faculty Group Practice

Peter T. Kan, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FAANS

Peter Kan, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FAANS

Professor and Chair
Robert L. Moody, Sr. Distinguished
University Chair
Department of Neurosurgery

Fernanda Laezza, MD, PhD

Director, Sealy Center for Environmental Health and Medicine
Professor, Department of
Pharmacology, Toxicology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Alan Landay, PhD

Vice President of Team Science
Professor, Division of Geriatrics,
Department of Internal Medicine

Agenor Limon, PhD

Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Department of Neurology
Director, Mitchell Center
Associate Director, Brain Tissue Repository
Moody Brain Health Institute

Sanja Sever, PhD

Vice President Drug Discovery
Director Sealy Institute Drug Discovery

Karen Dineen Wagner, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences