Experts Guide

Smith is director of clinical research at the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Institute and an expert in Alzheimer’s Disease, neuroscience and psychiatry.

Bush's research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience and neurophysiology of normative aging, mild cognitive impairment and early-stage Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Her expertise includes neurophysiology, electroencephalography, early-stage Alzheimer's Disease, audition and cognition, and cognitive decline detection and treatment.

Parthasarathy's research focuses on developing novel biophotonics techniques for the monitoring and imaging of tissue hemodynamics (blood flow and oxygenation), and the clinical translation for applications such as bedside diagnoses/monitoring of brain injuries, including strokes.

Passaglia's research focuses on neural engineering, neuroscience, glaucoma and other eye- and vision-related topics, including retinal physiology and disease.

D'Agostino is a research scientist in the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and an expert in neuroscience, nutrition physiology, cancer, ketogenic diet supplementation and environmental physiology. Through multiple Department of Defense and Office of Naval Research grants, he developed and patented unique technologies, including hyperbaric atomic force microscopy and exogenous ketone formulations for inducing and sustaining therapeutic ketosis for a wide range of applications, including CNS oxygen toxicity, Angelman's syndrome and cancer.