People
Statement of Inclusion
The Falcone Lab is committed to an open, fair, and inclusive work culture and environment, where everyone is welcome and supported. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work. We recognize that potential applicants and members of our community face barriers to access and representation. We also recognize an ongoing need for diversity within our lab, across our institution and in the fields of medicine and biomedical research in general. In all of our research studies, we aim to eliminate bias from study recruitment and include persons from all backgrounds and experiences.
Guido J. Falcone, MD, ScD, MPH
Principal Investigator
Guido is a Neurologist with subspecialty training in Neurocritical Care and Stroke, and an Epidemiologist with expertise in Population Genetics and Big Data. He received his MD magna cum laude from the University of Buenos Aires and completed his clinical training at FLENI (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States). He also completed a Masters of Public Health (concentrating in Quantitative Methods) and a Doctorate in Epidemiology (with minors in Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics) at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Julian N. Acosta, MD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Julian is a Neurologist currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He received his MD magna cum laude from the National University of the Northeast (Argentina) and completed his clinical training at FLENI (Buenos Aires, Argentina). His research interests include the use of clinical data, genomics, radiomics and novel modeling tools like machine learning to better understand the underlying biology of stroke.
Natalia Szejko, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Natalia is a Neurologist currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She received her MD from the Medical University of Warsaw (Poland). Her clinical and research background includes mainly movement disorders, particularly, Tourette syndrome and tics. She has been awarded a number of international grants and awards such as Fellowship of the Kosciuszko Foundation and Scientific Award for the Best Young Scientist granted by the journal Polityka (Poland). She has completed her clinical and scientific background with various international fellowships in Germany, Austria, Spain and the US. Her research aims to find whether genetically-determined hypertension and hypercholesterolemia are associated, individually or jointly, with increased risk of late-onset dementia.
Stacy C. Brown, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology - University of Hawaii
Stacy is an alumnus of the Yale Neurocritical Care Fellowship and Yale Neurology Residency, where she served as Chief Resident. She received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and her undergraduate degree from Columbia University. She is currently a Neurointensivist at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii and Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. She serves as the Program Director of Neuroscience Research at The Queen’s Medical Center. Her academic interests lie in stroke epidemiology with a focus on cerebrovascular health and research equity for underrepresented populations in the Pacific Islands. She maintains an active research collaboration with the Falcone Lab to study polygenic contributions to cerebrovascular disease.
Audrey C. Leasure, BS
Medical Student
Audrey is a medical student at Yale School of Medicine. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with honors and a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience. Her research focuses on the impact of cerebral small vessel disease on the response to treatment and secondary injury in intracerebral hemorrhage.
Rommell B. Noche, MS
Postgraduate Research Associate
Rommell Noche is a postgraduate research associate in the Falcone lab. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and Master of Science in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on stroke in middle-aged adults and vascular risk factors for frailty.
Cameron Both, ScB
Postgraduate Research Associate
Cameron is a research associate at Yale New Haven Hospital in the Divisions of Stroke and Neurocritical Care & Emergency Neurology. He graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science: ScB – Applied Mathematics-Biology and AB – Anthropology. His research interests focus on the clinical applications of genomic and epigenomic data analysis, especially in large-scale data sets such as the UK Biobank and in diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Kevin N. Vanent, ScB
Postgraduate Research Associate
Kevin is a research associate at Yale New Haven Hospital in the Divisions of Neurocritical Care and Vascular Neurology. He graduated from Brown University magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience. His research focuses on the impact of cerebral small vessel disease on the response to treatment and secondary injury in intracerebral hemorrhage.