The clinicians and health care professionals listed below are members of UM’s Neuroscience program because of their interests in neuroscience and their desire to help advance our mission in educational and research. Their addition provides an exceptional source of clinical expertise for collaborative research projects examining CNS disorders or involving human subjects, as well as adding a valuable medical perspective to our neuroscience courses.

Abdallah (Abe) Elias, MD, FAAP, FAAFP, FACMG
Medical & Laboratory Director, Department of Medical Genetics
Shodair Children’s Hospital, Helena MT
Genomic Medicine
Genetics of Neurological Disorders
Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Peter Von Doersten, MD.
Otolaryngology, Neurotology
Rocky Mountain ENT, Missoula MT
Auditory System Neurophysiology & Neuroanatomy
Diseases of the Auditory System
Cochlear Implants & Sensory Signal Processing

John Schaeffer, DO
Neurology
Providence Neurology Specialists
Alzheimer’s Disease
Movement Disorders
Headache & Neuromuscular Diseases