Frederick Lenz is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. He was educated at the University of Toronto with an undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics, a PhD in neurophysiology, an MD, a residency in neurosurgery, and a fellowship in functional neurosurgery. He was appointed assistant professor at Hopkins in 1988, and Walker professor in 2008. He has more than 30 years of experience with implantation of Deep Brain Stimulating electrodes, and cortical electrodes for treatment and investigation of Parkinson's, tremor, dystonia, pain and epilepsy. This practice has formed the basis for more than 30 years of NIH-funded research into human CNS neuroscience of pain, somatic sensation, and motor control. Jon Kaas is currently Distinguished Centennial Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He received his PhD training in comparative studies of brain organization in mammals in the laboratory of I. T.

Diamond at Duke University, and postdoctoral training in the comparative neurophysiology laboratory of C. N. Woolsey at the University of Wisconsin. His research has focused on determining the organization the organizations of sensory and motor systems in especially primates. He has published over 500 research papers, and over 200 reviews. Kenichi Oishi is internationally renowned for developing electronic brain atlases, widely utilized in neuroimaging research. He uses these atlases to investigate brain structures involved in language, brain development, aging, and changes due to preterm birth, perinatal hypoxic-ischemic events, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases. Dr.

Oishi's recent work includes analyzing real-world clinical data with artificial intelligence for precision medicine in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and dementia in older people. He also conducts in vivo and ex vivo ultra-high-resolution MRI studies to explore anatomical connectivity and changes due to neurodegeneration, along with cross-species comparative neuroanatomy to understand evolutionary changes in brain structures and functions.