Team Members

Fidel Vila-Rodroguez
Associate Professor
Director of NINET Lab
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience and Translational Psychiatry
Co-head, Interventional Brain Medicine Program
Associate Member, School of Biomedical Engineering, UBC
MD, PhD, FRCPC, DFAPA
Sarah Kesler
Knowledge Translation Consultant
BA, MBA
Elizabeth Gregory
MD PhD Student
BSc, Biopsychology
MSc, Experimental Medicine
Alexander Levit
Psychiatry Research Track Resident
MD PhD
Adam Sunavsky
MD PhD Student
BSc, Psychology
MSc, Medical Neuroscience
Foroogh Najafi
PhD Student
BASc, MASc, Biomedical Engineering
Hengameh Marzbani
PhD student, Biomedical Engineering
BASc, MASc Biomedical Engineering
Benjamin Nazif
Work/Learn Student
BSc., Integrated Sciences Student
Kevin Guo
MD Student (FLEX Project)
BHSc (Hons.)
Ameet Singh
Medical Office Assistant
BDS, MAS
Yoyo Do
Honours Thesis Student
B.A., Honours Psychology Student
Ben Axford
Research Assistant
B.KIN., Option in Multidisciplinary Science Student
Dasha Sosna
PhD Student
BSc, MSc, Kinesiology
Nahanni Musiani
Masters Student
BSc, Neuroscience
Yasna Vafi
Research Assistant/Directed Studies Student
BASc., Engineering Student

Lab Alumni

  • Ming Yang, Lab Manager
  • Ria Hechanova, Lab/Admin Assistant
  • Jeff Zhuan, PhD Student (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Parsa Tadayon, MASc Student (Biomedical Engineering)
  • Anca Toma, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • William Sun, BSc Co-op Student/rTMS Technician (Behavioural Neuroscience)
  • Hsin-Chen Tsai, BSc Co-op Student/rTMS Technician (Behavioural Neuroscience)
  • Cathy Feng, Research Assistant
  • Hasan Hasan, Research Assistant
  • Annika MacKenzie, Lab Research Assistant, BSc, Biophysics (Hons.)
  • Kimberley Marty, B.A., Psychology Work/Learn Student
  • Julie Klippenstein BSc., Neuroscience Capstone Project Student
  • Pantea Ghazanfari-Moghadam, B.A., Psychology Honours Thesis Student
  • Alice Joy Erchov, Research Coordinator, B.A., Honours Psychology
  • Bazyl Carroll, Co-op Student, BSc, Cognitive Systems
  • Chenyi Su, BSc Neuroscience Capstone Project Student
  • Ashley Kim, Research Assistant/rTMS Technician, BASc, Biomedical Endingeering
  • Anabelle McPherson, Research Coordinator, B.A., Honours Psychology
  • Caleb Pozdnikoff, Research Assistant/rTMS Technician, BSc, Biology
  • Lisa Ridgway, Patient Partner, Lawyer, BA (McGill), LLB/JD (UBC)