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Baljit Khakh, Ph.D.

Biography

Baljit S. Khakh received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge in 1995. During his graduate studies, he also spent some time at the Geneva Biomedical Research Institute. Dr. Khakh completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Graeme Henderson at the University of Bristol, followed by a fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, working in the laboratories of Drs. Henry A. Lester and Norman Davidson as a Wellcome Trust International Prize Traveling Research Fellow, and Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Biology. In 2001, Dr. Khakh returned to Cambridge in the Division of Neurobiology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Dr. Khakh joined UCLA in April 2006.

Gary Mathern, M.D.

Biography

Dr. Mathern graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1982. He completed his Rotating Internship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1983 and his Residencies in Surgery (1985) and Neurosurgery (1986-1991) at UCLA Harbor Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine, respectively.  Dr. Mathern received his Board Certification in Neurological Surgery in 1996.  He currently practices medicine at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine and specializes in Neurological Surgery and Pediatric Neurological Surgery. Dr. Mathern is affiliated with both Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.