Principal Investigator
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Principal InvestigatorCatherine J. Chu, MD, MMSc, MADr. Chu is a board-certified child neurologist, epileptologist, and neurophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She received her BS in neurobiology and behavior from the Univ of Washington, MD and MMSc from Harvard Medical School, and MA from Harvard University (Social Anthropology). Dr. Chu is the director of neonatal and pediatric EEG monitoring at MGH. Clinically, she specializes in EEG analysis, seizure localization, surgical planning, and neuromodulation for patients with difficult to control epilepsy. Dr Chu’s research focuses on identifying and understanding how brain rhythms contribute to seizures and cognitive symptoms in epilepsy using invasive and noninvasive multimodal imaging. Actively funded projects in the Chu Lab include studies on thalamocortical circuit dysfunction in epileptic encephalopathies, understanding the underlying neuronal mechanisms and clinical utility of spike ripples in epilepsy, improving neuromodulation in cortical epilepsy, and understanding the relationship between hippocampal rhythms and sleep-dependent memory function. She is also active in several multicenter collaborative networks to improve our understanding of neonatal seizures and early life epilepsies. Outside of work, Dr. Chu is the proud mom to 3 awesome kids and enjoys tackling endless home improvement projects with her husband. [Link to CV] |
Lab Members
Collaborators
Mark Kramer, PhD
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Matti Hamalainen, PhD
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Uri Eden, PhD
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Dara Manoach, PhD
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Xue Han, PhD
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Britt Carlson Emerton, PhD
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Brandon Westover, MD, PhD
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Mark Richardson, MD, PhD
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Ona Wu, PhD
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Research Consortiums |
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Center for Neurotechnology and Recovery |
Neonatal Seizure Registry |
Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium |
Division of Sleep Medicine |
Former Lab Members
lab position / post-lab position
Elizabeth Spencer, PhD (graduate student in mathematics and statistics, Boston University / post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University) |
McKenna Parnes, MSEd, PhD (graduate student in psychology / psychology residency, Brown University) |
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Lauren Ostrowski, BS (honors undergraduate student in neuroscience, Brown University / MD, PhD Candidate, MSTP, University of California San Diego) |
Wenting Xie, BS (clinical research coordinator / computer science MS candidate, Cornell University) |
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Grace Xiao, MD (honors undergraduate student in neuroscience, Harvard University / MD Candidate, Johns Hopkins Medical School) |
Rebecca Weiss, BS (clinical research coordinator / MGH neonatology clinical research coordinator) |
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Anehita Oribabor, MEng (clinical research coordinator / industry) |
Kyla Cordrey, BS (honors undergraduate student in neuroscience, Harvard University / MD Candidate, Johns Hopkins Medical School) |
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Sally Stoyell, BS (research coordinator / Psychology PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota) |
Katica Boric, PhD, MSc (clinical research coordinator / Decision Lab Manager, Spain) |
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Dan Song, BSE (research coordinator / Biomedical Engineering PhD Candidate, Northwestern University) |
Juan Diaz, BS (clinical research coordinator / MBA candidate, Dartmouth University) |
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Emily Thorn, BS, MA (research coordinator, graduate student in neuroscience, Boston University / MDCandidate, Washington State University Medical Center) |
Rayna Trietsch, BS (clinical research coordinator / MD candidate, Tufts University Medical School) |
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Lila Worden, MD (pediatric neurology resident researcher / Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia epilepsy fellowship) |
Jennifer Leahy, BS (clinical research coordinator / Psychology PhD candidate, University ofMassachusetts) |
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Erin Ross, BS (co-op student, Northeastern University, research coordinator / MD Candidate, UC Southern California Medical School) |
Stefania Sokolowski (honors undergraduate student in neuroscience, Boston University / strategic analyst, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) |