Dr. Suthana completed her graduate training in the UCLA Neuroscience interdepartmental Ph.D. program with Drs. Susan Bookheimer and Barbara Knowlton. She then went on to complete her postdoctoral training in the Department of Neurosurgery with Dr. Itzhak Fried prior to joining faculty in 2014. Dr. Suthana’s research focuses on development of invasive and non-invasive methodologies that can restore cognitive functions such as learning and memory and characterization of brain changes associated with successful and unsuccessful learning and memory. Dr. Suthana is also and Friend’s Scholar and currently the Associate Director of the Neuromodulation Division at UCLA. She also serves as the Director of postdoctoral outreach and educational programs for the UCLA Brain Research Institute.