Leadership

The team at Aural Analytics brings together world-renowned neurologists, speech analytics PhDs, signal processing and machine learning PhDs, proven industry operators and veteran software engineers.

Visar Berisha, Ph.D.
Chief Analytics Officer
Co-Founder

Julie Liss, Ph.D.
Chief Clinical Officer
Co-Founder

Daniel Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder

Jim Gemmell, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer

Judy Smythe
Head of Clinical and Business Operations

Shira Hahn, Ph.D.
VP of Analytics & Principal Investigator Grants

Gabriela Stegmann, Ph.D.
Director of Data Science

Jessyca Heinen
Director of Human
Resources & Operations

Eric Reiman, MD
CEO, Banner Research
Executive Director of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute

Jeremy Shefner, MD
Head of Neurology
Barrow Neurological Institute

John Caviness, MD
Professor of Neurology
Founder, Movement Neurophysiology Lab
Mayo Clinic

David Dodick, MD
Medical Director, Headache & Concussion
Professor of Neurology
Mayo Clinic

Todd Schwedt, MD
Professor of Neurology
Chair of Research, Neurology
Mayo Clinic

Stacy Rudnicki, MD
Senior Director
Clinical Research
Cytokinetics

Michael del Aguila, Ph.D.
Global Head of Real World Evidence at Grail, Inc.

Michele Chin-Purcell, Ph.D.
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
Nalu Medical, Inc.

Greg Hickok, Ph.D.
Professor of Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine

Robert Bowser, Ph.D.
Deputy Chief Scientific Officer Chairman, Neurobiology Professor, Neurology and Neurobiology
Barrow Neurological Institute

Tyler Knutson
Head of the Data Analytics Hub
Aetna CVS