He has served as a mentor for several postdoctoral fellows and graduate students who have gone on to become successful scientifically productive faculty members at major medical schools. He is also involved in collaborative clinical studies of head injured patients in the critical care unit at Hopkins and neuroprotective strategies for patients undergoing open heart surgery. Mary Blue, Ph.D. is a neuroanatomist and Director of the Imaging Center in the Neuroscience Laboratory at the Kennedy Krieger Research Institute. She works on the plasticity of the cerebral cortex and is an expert in immunocytochemistry of neurotransmitters in the cerebral cortex. She is currently working on an exciting laboratory model of reorganization of function and structure in the somatosensory cortex that is related to recovery of function in human traumatic brain disorders.
Trainees work in the laboratory to learn how to conduct experiments on brain plasticity.
Michael Cataldo, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins and Director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute Behavioral Psychology Department. Dr. Cataldo's areas of expertise are in applied behavior analysis for children with developmental disabilities and behavioral disorders. Recently he has collaborated with the Neurorehabilitation Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute to develop an innovative program for managing behavioral problems of head injured patients without the use of medications. Dr. Cataldo has developed a very strong predoctoral internship training program in child psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and his trainees have gone on to populate a multitude of programs in Child Psychology. Recently, Dr. Cataldo developed a joint training program in Behavioral Psychology with the New Medico Head Injury System for brain injured patients.