Tara Entezar is an undergraduate student in the 2022 class of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is pursuing Bachelor of Science degrees in biology and environmental science. Tara has been a part of the Laboratory for Therapeutic Interventions for Parkinson’s Disease and Stroke since 2017, when she studied the effects of anti-parkinsonian medication on oculomotor control. Since then, she has sought to better understand the effects of anti-parkinsonian medication and deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on proprioceptively and peripheral-visually performed memory-guided reaches. Tara authored two abstracts for the American Academy of Neurology in 2020 and is currently working on further publications.
Publications:
Entezar, T., Rivera, Y., Munoz, M., Pal, G., Verhagen-Metman, L., Goelz, L., Corcos, D., & David, F. (2020). The Effects of Medication and Parkinson’s Disease Severity on Visually Encoded Memory Guided Reaching (1718). Neurology, 94(15 Supplement), 1718.
Rivera, Y., Entezar, T., Munoz, M., Pal, G., Verhagen-Metman, L., Goelz, L., Corcos, D., & David, F. (2020). The Effects of Medication and Parkinson’s Disease Severity on Proprioceptively Encoded Memory Guided Reaching (2877). Neurology, 94(15 Supplement), 2877.
Erin King is a graduate student in the Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience program (NUIN). Prior to entering into NUIN, she was an occupational therapist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, specializing in rehabilitation of individuals who are neurologically impaired. Her research area of interest includes investigating the underlying neural mechanisms associated with post-stroke recovery both in the acute and chronic stages.
Silvia Ramzy, M.A., is a medical student at Midwestern University in Arizona. Before enrolling in medical school, she obtained her Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences from Midwestern University in Illinois and her Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology-Movement Science from University of Illinois at Chicago. Silvia is currently working with Dr. Stoykov on transcranial magnetic stimulation in stroke patients and with Dr. David on the therapeutic effects of deep brain stimulation surgery in Parkinson’s patients. She hopes to pursue a medical career in neurosurgery one day.