Tracy Butler Laboratory

Dr. Tracy Butler is a neurologist/neuroscientist with clinical subspecialty training in behavioral neurology and epilepsy and research fellowship training in functional and structural neuroimaging.  She is the medical director of the Brain Health Imaging Institute (BHII) where she oversees subject assessment and clinical trials of therapies and neuroimage biomarkers of aging and neurodegeneration.  Her research uses multimodal positron emission tomorgraphy (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) neuroimaging and complementary methods to better understand the biological basis of neuropsychiatric disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and as normal aging, focusing on pathophysiologic overlap among these conditions such as hormonal dysregulation, neuroinflammation and brain toxic protein (tau and amyloid) accumulation.

Quinn Chou is the coordinator for the Acute Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Study. With a strong interest in neuroimaging, cognitive assessments, and long-term outcomes in TBI patients, Quinn is key in coordinating participant enrollment, managing informed consent processes, and overseeing follow-up studies to track recovery trajectories. She received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Fudan University and a master's in public health from Cornell University.

Tom Maloney is a highly experienced project and data manager for complex clinical research studies of brain function.  He has deep expertise in developing database structures and tools and facilities for smooth, flexible capture, organization and retrieval of very large, very dense, highly diverse study data from multiple research and clinical domains. His background ranges from event-related electroencephalogram (EEG) potentials, sleep regulation, cognitive performance, chronobiology and neuropsychological testing to functional neuroimaging.  He has planned and managed research and clinical operations and data migrations at Stony Brook University, the Veterans Administration, University of California, Brown University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and, since 2019, Weill Cornell Medicine.  He is project manager for the LUCINDA Trial and Data Manager for the Brain Health Imaging Institute. 

Xiuyuan (Hugh) Wang has been working with Dr. Butler since 2011, first at New York University and now at Weill Cornell.  He received his bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Shanghai University, and a master's degree from City College of New York. He is an image analyst in the lab working on biomedical signal and image processing.