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Javier Quintana, M.D., Ph.D.

Javier Quintana, M.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Schizophrenia Neuroimaging Laboratory
Greater Los Angeles VA HCS – West Los Angeles VA HCC, Bldg. 210 A (MIRECC)
11301 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90073

 

Biography

Javier Quintana, M.D., Ph.D. is Associate Professor in Residence at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Director of the Outpatient Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service at the Sepulveda VA ACC, Greater Los Angeles VA HCS, where he chairs two advanced senior clinical clerkships of the UCLA School of Medicine course curriculum and is actively involved in the clinical training of Psychiatry residents and fellows from UCLA training programs. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Experimental Psychopharmacology, Neuroscience) degrees from the University Autonoma in his native Barcelona, Spain. He has completed residency training in Clinical Pathology (University of Barcelona) and Psychiatry (UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital), and is board certified in Psychiatry (Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) as well as in Clinical Pathology and Family Medicine (European Community certificates). He has undertaken extensive postdoctoral research training in Cellular Neurochemistry (University of Barcelona), Behavioral/Cognitive Neuroscience and Primate Behavioral Neurophysiology (with Professor Joaquin Fuster at UCLA), and Functional Neuroimaging in human (functional MRI) and non-human (Positron Emission Tomography, PET) primates (with Professor John Mazziotta at UCLA), having published in all these fields. Dr. Quintana was a NIMH-NRSA Clinical Fellow and has been the recipient of two NARSAD Young Investigator Awards, a VA Advanced Research Scientist Career Development Award and a VA Merit Review Award among others. He was a member of the American Psychiatric Association Board of Trustees (1996-1997) and of the APA Committee on Research Training in Psychiatry (1995-2001). He has been a Faculty Mentor at the APA Annual Colloquium for Young Investigators in several occasions and has actively participated in the APA Minority Research Training in Psychiatry (MRTP) efforts.

 

Publications

A selected list of publications:

Quintana Javier, Lee Junghee, Marcus Michael, Kee Kimmy, Wong Tiffany, Yerevanian Armen   Brain dysfunctions during facial discrimination in schizophrenia: selective association to affect decoding Psychiatry research, 2011; 191(1): 44-50.
Lee Junghee, Quintana Javier, Nori Poorang, Green Michael F   Theory of mind in schizophrenia: exploring neural mechanisms of belief attribution Social neuroscience, 2011; 6(5-6): 569-81.
Anderson Ariana, Dinov Ivo D, Sherin Jonathan E, Quintana Javier, Yuille A L, Cohen Mark S   Classification of spatially unaligned fMRI scans NeuroImage, 2010; 49(3): 2509-19.
Quintana Javier, Wong Tiffany, Ortiz-Portillo Elena, Marder Stephen R, Mazziotta John C   Anterior cingulate dysfunction during choice anticipation in schizophrenia Psychiatry research, 2004; 132(2): 117-30.
Quintana Javier, Wong Tiffany, Ortiz-Portillo Elena, Marder Stephen R, Mazziotta John C   Right lateral fusiform gyrus dysfunction during facial information processing in schizophrenia Biological psychiatry, 2003; 53(12): 1099-112.
Quintana Javier, Wong Tiffany, Ortiz-Portillo Elena, Kovalik Edward, Davidson Tom, Marder Stephen R, Mazziotta John C   Prefrontal-posterior parietal networks in schizophrenia: primary dysfunctions and secondary compensations Biological psychiatry, 2003; 53(1): 12-24.
Robert M. Prins, Ph.D.

Robert Prins, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Robert M. Prins Lab
UCLA Department of Neurosurgery
Edie & Lew Wasserman Building
300 Stein Plaza, Suite 420
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Biography

Robert M. Prins is a tumor immunologist with joint faculty appointments in the Departments of Neurosurgery and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology. Dr. Prins earned his B.S. in Kinesiology and his M.S. in Physiological Science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Immunology from the Medical College of Virginia. He completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Cedars-Sinai Neurosurgical Institute and the UCLA Division of Neurosurgery before joining the faculty at UCLA in 2006. Dr. Prins is a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Brain Research Institute, and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Dr. Prins is currently the Director of the I3T Seminar Series, the Brain Tumor Immunology Research Lab and for many clinical trials of immunotherapy. His research centers on understanding the immunology of malignant brain tumors and devising new immune-based therapies to treat these deadly tumors.

Mayumi L. Prins, Ph.D.

Mayumi Prins, Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

10833 Le Conte Avenue, NPI 18-228
Box 957039
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Research Interests

Dr. Prins’s research interests include understanding the changes in brain metabolism that occur after pediatric traumatic brain injury and how alternative fuels can be used as therapeutic options for the young brain after head injury. In addition to this main focus, she is interested in repeat mild head injuries as they apply to both children and young adult athletes.

Carlos Portera-Cailliau

Carlos Portera-Cailliau, M.D., Ph.D.

Faculty Member

Professor
Department of Neurology
Department of Neurobiology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles

 

710 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

 

Biography

The Portera-Cailliau laboratory investigates how developmental defects in network connectivity at the level of the cerebral cortex directly lead to symptoms of autism, learning disability and intellectual dysfunction. In particular they are studying sensory hypersensitivity in a model of fragile X syndrome, by combining in vivo two-photon calcium imaging, patch-clamp electrophysiology, and head-fixed behavior.  Dr. Portera-Cailliau was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. He obtained a B.A. in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from U.C. San Diego in 1990. He then attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and obtained an MD-PhD degree in 1997. His mentors were Drs. Donald Price and Lee Martin. After finishing a residency in Neurology at The Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston in 2001, Dr. Portera-Cailliau moved to Columbia University for a post-doctoral fellowship in Dr. Rafael Yuste’s laboratory. His second post-doc was with Dr. Karel Svoboda in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He joined the UCLA faculty in November 2004 and has joint appointments in the Departments of Neurology and Neurobiology. He is a member of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, the Integrated Center for Learning & Memory, and the Neuroscience Theme.  Since 2013 he has served as co-director of the UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program.

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