We welcome faculty membership from all disciplines in the medical school as well as affiliate faculty members from relevant disciplines at the university and other institutions.
Faculty should be able to demonstrate a serious interest and commitment to the rigorous investigation of consciousness or related fields of inquiry.
Core CCS Faculty
Active CCS faculty currently represent fields such as neuroscience, anesthesiology, neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, biomedical engineering, and physics.
Sekhar Sripada, PhD
Psychiatry, Philosophy
Giancarlo Vanini, MD
Anesthesiology
Phil Vlisides, MD
Anesthesiology
Affiliated Faculty & Trainees
Affiliate faculty members currently represent the fields of philosophy, psychology, and music
Internal Affiliates
J. Wayne Aldridge, PhD
Psychology
Neurology
Psychology
Melvin McInnis, MD
Psychiatry
Sara Aton, PhD
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Neurology
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
Psychology, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering
Ed Sarath, PhD
Music
Neurology
Neurology
Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Neurology
Q. Afifa Shamim-Uzzaman, MD
Internal Medicine & General Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
Monica Starkman, MD
Psychiatry
Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology
External Affiliates
Anesthesiology, Washington University
Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania
Stefanie Blain-Moraes, PhD
Biomedical Engineering, McGill University,
Montreal
Tiny Blue Dot Consciousness Studies, Gonzaga University
Physiology, Wayne State University
Anesthesiology, Washington University
Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania
Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania
Philosophy, Oakland University
Translational Neuroscience Program, Wayne State University
Psychiatry & Psychology, Statistical Physics, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
