Leadership team
Michael Baime, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at PSOM
Executive Director
Victor Pablo Acero
Associate Director
Bioengineering PhD Candidate
Taylor Andrews Flatt, PMHNP
Director of Community Engagement
PMHNP at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Renyu Liu, MD, PhD
Co-Director (Chair) of Perelman School of Medicine
Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery
Justin McDaniel, PhD
Professor of Religious Studies, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities
Co-Director (Chair) of School of Arts and Sciences
Jackie Tileston, MA
Co-Director (Chair) of Weitzman School of Design
Professor of Fine Arts
Shoshana V. Aronowitz, PhD
Co-Director (Chair) of School of Nursing
MSHP, FNP-BC, Assistant Professor of Family and Community Health
Carlo Siracusa, DVM, PhD
DACVB, Associate Professor of Clinical Animal Behavior and Welfare
Co-Director (Chair) of School of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty advisory board
Heather Klusaritz, PhD
PhD, MSW, CPHI Senior Fellow, Director of Community Engagement for Public Health Initiatives, Director of Community Health Services at Center for Health Equity Advancement, Associate Director of Center for Community and Population Health Policy
Elizabeth Pulver Castleman, MBA
MBA, BA, Lecturer at the Wharton School. Elizabeth is currently a lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches Business Communications for Impact
Joretha N. Bourjolly, MSW, PhD
MSW, PhD, Associate Professor/Clinician Educator, Associate Dean for Inclusion, Associate Professor/Clinician Educator at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and serves in the role of Associate Dean for Inclusion.
Anna Childress, PhD
PhD, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Brain-Behavioral Vulnerabilities Division; Center for Studies on Addiction
MD, Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia; Staff Physician, CMJC VA Medical Center
Kyle Kampman, MD
Michael Edward Thase, MD
MD, Professor of Psychiatry; Psychiatrist at the CMJC VA Medical Center
Emily Hartwell, PhD
Clinical psychologist at the Crescenz VA Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Carlo Siracusa, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Animal Behavior and Welfare at Penn Vet. Director of the Small Animal Behavior Service. Veterinarian specialized in behavior medicine, with PhD in Animal Health and Welfare.
Carlo Siracusa, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery UPenn and Director of Operations for the Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration, & Restoration at the CMC VA Medical Center.
Jeffrey Vadala, PhD
Director and Lead Programmer, Virtual Reality Lab at Penn Brain Science Center. Jeffrey R. Vadala holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (University of Florida 2016), an M.A. with a focus in Archaeology (California State University Los Angeles 2009), and a Bachelor of Science (University of California Riverside 2005).
Paul S. Regier, PhD
PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Neuroscientist and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anjan Chatterjee, MD
Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics.
Renyu Liu, MD, PhD
Practicing Physician and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a dual professor of Anesthesiology and Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a scholar at the Penn Global Health Center.
Dr. Michael Baime
Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Penn Program for Mindfulness. Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the founder and Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness.
Toorjo Ghose, MSW, PhD
Associate Professor in School of Social Policy and Practice. Work focusing on structural interventions in the areas of incarceration, substance use, homelessness and HIV, both at the domestic and international levels.
Joseph Cichon, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care. Interested in the cellular and circuit mechanisms of rapid-acting antidepressants, e.g. ketamine and psilocybin.
Michael Gawrysiak, PhD
PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Saliman H. Meghani, PhD
Professor of Nursing and Palliative Care in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jackie Tileston
Professor in Fine Arts with a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas.
Dr. Alissa Marie Jordan
Center for Experimental Ethnography. Multimodal cultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses on questions of bodies, security, healing, and aesthetics.
Justin McDaniel, PhD
Professor of Religious Studies. McDaniel's research foci include Lao, Thai, Pali and Sanskrit literature, art and architecture, and manuscript studies.
Michelle Joy, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Behavioral Health Emergency Services CMJC VA. ScB in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University in 2007, an MD from Yale School of Medicine in 2012, and completed her Psychiatry Residency at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship in 2017. She provides clinical care in serious mental illness, transgender medicine, and emergency psychiatry and has a civil, administrative, and criminal forensics practice.