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Widge – Curriculum Vitae Widge – Curriculum Vitae Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine Format for the Curriculum Vitae Date Prepared: 12/20/2015 Name: Alik Sunil Widge Office Address: 149 13th St, Room 2625, Charlestown, MA 02129 Home Address: 62 Liberty Ave, Somerville, MA 02144 Work Phone: 617-643-2580 Work Email: [email protected] Work FAX: 617-726-4078 Place of Birth: Allentown, PA, USA Education 08/1995 – BA (summa cum laude, Computer Science & Cognitive Dartmouth College 06/1999 Phi Beta Kappa, High Science Honors in major) 07/1999 – MD (Alpha Omega Medical Scientist Training University of Pittsburgh 12/2008 Alpha) Program 08/2001 – PhD Robotics (Yoky Matsuoka & Carnegie Mellon 01/2007 Kaigham Gabriel) University Postdoctoral Training 06/2009 – Resident Psychiatry University of Washington 05/2013 06/2009 – Postdoctoral Chet Moritz (Biophysics, University of Washington 05/2013 Researcher Neurophysiology, Rehabilitation Medicine) 07/2013 – Research Fellow Darin Dougherty (Interventional Massachusetts General 06/2014 Psychiatry) Hospital 07/2013 – Research Fellow Earl Miller (Picower Institute for Massachusetts Institute of 06/2015 Learning & Memory) Technology Faculty Academic Appointments 4/2014 – Instructor Psychiatry Harvard Medical School Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions 4/2014 – Assistant Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital 1 Widge – Curriculum Vitae Other Professional Positions 09/1997 – Undergraduate Research Assistant (parallel Dartmouth College, Computer Science 06/ 1999 projects with Daniela Rus and Bruce Dept. Randall Donald) 09/1996 – Lead Programmer World Market Watch, Woodstock, VT 09/1997 02/2009 – Volunteer Physician SHARE India / Bhoruka Charitable Trust, 04/2009 Rajasthan, India 02/2010 – Consultant (Market Research / Business Assay Dynamics, Seattle, WA 01/2011 Plan Development) Committee Service Local 2007 - 2009 Propel Pittsburgh Commission City of Pittsburgh 2009 - 2013 Psychiatry Residency Education Steering University of Washington Committee 2013 Quality Improvement Subcommittee 2012 - 2013 Graduate Medical Education Committee University of Washington 2014 - Psychiatric Neurosurgery Committee Massachusetts General Hospital National and International 2001 - 2003 Electronic Residency Application System Assn of American Medical Colleges Advisory Committee 2011 - 2013 Psychiatry Residency Review Committee Accreditation Commission for Graduate Medical Education 2012 - 2014 Psychiatry Milestones Working Group Accreditation Commission for Graduate Medical Education Professional Societies 1999 - Sigma Xi 1999 - American Association for the Advancement of Science 1999 - American Medical Association 2002 – 2004 American Medical Political Action Cmte, Board of Directors 2003 – 2004 Chair, Medical Student Section Task Force on Medical Education Debt 2004 – 2006 Chair, Medical Student Section (includes Chair-Elect, Immediate Past Chair) 2006 – 2009 Medical Student Section Committee on Long-Range Planning 2013 – 2016 Council on Long-Range Planning & Development 2014 Judge, Resident Research Symposium 1999 - 2009 Pennsylvania Medical Society 2001 - 2003 Pennsylvania Medical Political Action 2 Widge – Curriculum Vitae Cmte, Board of Directors 2005 – 2009 Alternate Delegate to American Medical Association 2007 – 2009 Patient Advocacy Executive Council 2002 - Society for Neuroscience 2002 – 2006 National Assn of Graduate-Professional Students 2002 – 2004 Legislative Director 2006 – 2008 American Physician Scientists Association 2007 – 2008 Public Relations Committee 2008 – 2013 American College of Medical Quality 2007 - 2013 International Neuroethics Society 2009 - American Psychiatric Association 2010 – 2011 Deputy Representative, Assembly 2011 – 2013 Board of Trustees 2015 – Corresponding Member, Council on Research 2009 – 2013 Washington State Psychiatric Association 2010 – 2013 Executive Council 2009 – 2013 Washington State Medical Association 2011 – 2013 Resident Delegate to American Medical Association 2012 - Society for Biological Psychiatry 2015 – Annual Meeting Program Committee 2013 - Massachusetts Psychiatric Society 2013 - Massachusetts Medical Society 2013 – 2015 Resident/Fellow Delegate to American Medical Association 2014 Judge, Research Poster Symposium 2015 – Legislative Committee (alternate) Grant Review Activities 2006 – 2007 Scholarship/award committees (ad hoc) American Medical Association Foundation 2011 – 2012 Research Grants Review Committee (ad University of Washington Housestaff hoc) Association 2012 Junior Investigator Grants Review Romanian National Council for Scientific Committee (ad hoc) Research 2014 Graduate Research Fellowship Program National Science Foundation Review Committee (panelist member) Editorial Activities Ad Hoc Reviewer Journal of Neural Engineering Journal of Neuroscience Neurosurgery Regular Reviewer Academic Psychiatry 3 Widge – Curriculum Vitae Brain-Computer Interfaces Depression & Anxiety Experimental Neurology ("Recognized Reviewer") Frontiers in Neural Circuits Journal of Affective Disorders Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Journal of Graduate Medical Education (“GME Focus” summarizer) Journal of Neurophysiology Scientific Reports Honors and Prizes 1995 National Merit Scholar National Merit Scholarship Academic excellence as Corporation high school student 1995 Eagle Scout Boy Scouts of America Character, community service, and achievement 1999 John J. Kemeny Dartmouth College Innovative undergraduate Computing Prize - achievement (JIGSAW Innovation algorithm) 1999 John J. Kemeny Dartmouth College Software architecture in an Computing Prize – undergraduate project System Design (Agent Scheme) 1999 Presidential Scholar Dartmouth College Undergraduate research 2011 Outstanding Resident National Institute of Mental Health Research potential Award 2012 Brain Camp Scholar National Institute of Mental Health Research potential 2012 Research Colloquium American Psychiatric Association Research potential for Junior Investigators 2013 BRAIN Scholar American Association of Directors Research/teaching of Psychiatric Residency Training 2013 Travel Award NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (University of Washington) 2013 Resident Recognition American Psychiatric Association Service to profession, Award patients, scholarship 2014 Career Development NIMH/Stanford/U of Pittsburgh Research potential Institute for Psychiatry 2014 Career Development Anxiety & Depression Association Research potential Leadership Program of America 2015 Travel Award Society of Biological Psychiatry Research potential 2015 Finalist, Career Awards Burroughs Wellcome Fund Research potential for Medical Scientists 2015 Travel Award American College of Research potential Neuropsychopharmacology 2015 Participant, Champions White House Office of Science & Specific expertise of Change: Precision Technology Policy Medicine 2015 Clinical Research Day Massachusetts General Hospital Leadership of 4 Widge – Curriculum Vitae Team Award interdisciplinary team Report of Funded and Unfunded Projects Funding Information Past 2002 – 2005 Conductive Polymer “Molecular Wires” for Neuro-Robotic Interfaces National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship Mentored Investigator, with Yoky Matsuoka Graduate fellowship (tuition/stipend) to develop a new electrode technology for chronic neural recording and stimulation. Demonstrated that single-molecule nanowires could be bound onto conventional metal electrodes and that they could insert into a cell membrane for chronic intracellular recording. 2005 – 2008 Polymer “Molecular Wires” for Neuroprosthetic Electrodes NINDS / F30 NS051866 Mentored trainee ($160,000 direct costs), with Yoky Matsuoka Graduate fellowship for further development of nanowire electrode technology, particularly characterization of biocompatibility and supercomputer simulations of mechanism of membrane action. Fellowship also funded completion of MD/PhD training. 2012 – 2013 Closed-Loop Neurostimulation for Psychiatric Disorders NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering Seed Grant Mentored PI ($12,000 direct costs), with Chet Moritz Development of a rodent model for brain stimulation that is controlled and volitionally triggered by a subject’s own brain activity. First proof of concept towards a patient- controllable implantable neuromodulation system. 2013 – 2015 Picower Clinical Neuroscience Fellowship Mentored Fellow ($40,000 direct costs plus stipend), with Darin Dougherty and Earl Miller Competitive fellowship grant for translational work between MIT basic neuroscience labs and MGH clinical brain stimulation group, bridging a gap between primate and human affective regulation neuroscience. Current 2014 – 2019 Transdiagnostic Restoration of Affective Networks by Systematic, Function-Oriented Real-time Modeling and Deep Brain Stimulation (TRANSFORM DBS); co-PIs Darin Dougherty and Emad Eskandar Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, BAA-14-09 Program Management and System Integration ($756,765 salary support) Major multi-year, multi-PI effort developing novel deep brain stimulation technology and algorithms for biomarker detection and closed-loop stimulation across several psychiatric disorders. My role focuses on integrating software and hardware from multiple labs into a usable and clinically relevant system. 2015-2017 Responsive, Subject-Controlled Limbic Neurostimulation 5 Widge – Curriculum Vitae Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD Young Investigator research grant) Principal Investigator ($65,000 direct costs) This project
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