Safar Center T32 Fellow Sarah Svirsky, PhD

Sarah Svirsky, PhD received her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience from Barnard College in 2013 and her PhD in Neurobiology from the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh investigating synaptic mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction after experimental traumatic brain injury under the mentorship of Safar Center Associate Director, Dr. C. Edward Dixon.  She has an outstanding publication record with reports in Molecular Neurobiology, the Neurobiology of Disease, Frontiers in Neurology, Neuroscience, and the Journal of Neurotrauma.  Her current research, as she joints our T32, examines acute secondary brain injury pathophysiology using multimodal neuromonitoring in patients with severe TBI and cardiac arrest, under the mentorship of Dr. Ava Puccio.