Our Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Beth Costine-Bartell, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Assistant in Neuroscience
Department of Neurosurgery, MassGeneral Brigham

Co-Chair, Subcommittee on Animal Resources
Executive Committee on Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

After my postdoctoral fellowship in basic neuroscience studying the effect of steroids on GABAergic signaling in the hypothalamus (Dr. Leslie P Henderson, PhD, Dartmouth Medical School), I had the unique experience of spending several years training with a pediatric neurosurgeon specializing in abusive head trauma (Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD), a pediatric anesthesiologist (Dr. Carter Dodge, MD), a pediatrician specializing in child abuse (Dr. Alice Newton, MD), a pediatric neurologist (Dr. Kevin Staley, MD), and a forensic pediatric neuropathologist (Dr. Declan McGuone, MD) learning hands on skills in anesthesia and surgery, participating in neurosurgery trauma conferences, enrolling patients in TRACK-TBI, and performing autopsies, including infant homicide cases from abusive head injury, at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, New York City. I have spent 30 years in large animal models with the last 16 years in large animal models of traumatic brain injury.

Staff

Dr. Nelson Marquez, DVM, Research Technologist

Dr. Alexandra Hochstetler, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow

Marco Pretell, Master of Science Candidate, Data Engineer

Benjamin Baskin, Research Technician

Tawny Stinson, Research Technician

  • ICU Team Lead, on call veterinary technician, surgeon, anesthesia
  • Project director of tissue damage analysis “Identifying potential therapeutic targets for abusive head trauma”
  • Project director of biomarkers of cardiac injury, “Identifying potential therapeutic targets for abusive head trauma”
  • Intern manager
  • Lab social organizer extraordinaire

Postbaccalaureate students

Mariana I. Gonzalez Rodriguez, Boston University School of Medicine

ICU Team Lead for Identifying potential therapeutic targets for abusive head trauma

Veronica Rodrigues Sendao, Boston University School of Medicine

Undergraduate Interns

Aarush Patnala, Tufts University

Trevor Kim, Tufts University

  • Tissue damage analysis “Identifying potential therapeutic targets for abusive head trauma”

Andrew Schwalb, Tufts University

Gabrielle Delinsky, Tufts University

Arihant Patel, Boston University

Hannah Merritt, Tufts University

The MGH Brain Trauma Lab

MGH Neurosciences
Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School