Personnel

Dr. Terence Sanger is the director of the USC Pediatric Movement Disorders Center.  His research focuses on understanding the origins of pediatric movement disorders from both a biological and a computational perspective. The primary goal of his research is to discover new methods for treating children with movement disorders. Dr. Sanger coordinates the Childhood Motor Study Group (CMSG) and the NIH Taskforce on Childhood Movement Disorders, and he is principal investigator on several research studies at USC.  He runs the pediatric movement disorders clinic at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA) in the department of Neurology.  His training includes background in Child Neurology, Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Control Theory, Neural Networks, and Computational Neuroscience. Email: tsanger(at)usc.edu

Curriculum Vitae PDF, NIH Biosketch PDF

Diana Ferman is a physician assistant (PA) and the study coordinator for Dr. Sanger’s clinical trials.  She manages human subject board submissions at USC and provides support for other study centers.  She manages and communicates with Dr. Sanger’s clinic patients, manages emergency situations, and coordinates the highly complex medical and neurological issues that occur in the patients.  Email: dferman(at)usc.edu

Judy Henderson is a senior speech pathologist and director of the assistive communications clinic at Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital.  She has pioneered the use of remote tele-medicine for diagnosis and prescription of assistive communication devices, and she is a co-investigator on a grant funded by the NIH to support research on optimizing assistive communication devices for children with motor disorders.

Scott Young is a postdoctoral research fellow who is studying whether visual information about the activity of different muscles can improve children's ability to control those muscles. He is testing children with hand and arm dystonia. He is also coordinating a study to test whether transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) improves hand control in children with dystonia. scott.young.1(at)usc.edu