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Few individuals enjoy an impressive resume filled with life-changing research like Dr. Pamela Douglas. From her impressive educational credentials to her professional affiliations, Douglas devotes her energy to solving the most complex questions concerning the human brain and development. Her research and interests challenge common understandings concerning brain computation, leading to more effective medical and academic interventions and development assistance.

Formal Education for Pamela Douglas

Pamela’s impressive education starts at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering & Math here. This was the gateway into further academic pursuits, and she went on to the University of Pennsylvania and earned her Master of Science in Bioengineering.

This program helped cultivate the skills she needed as a engineering and biological sciences researcher. Here, she received the advanced education that laid the foundation for her work as a computational neuroscientist. From the University of Pennsylvania, Pamela when to UCLA, where she completed the Doctor of Philosophy program in Neuroengineering.

Work Experience

Neuroengineering is a highly specialized field, and Pamela Douglas has a remarkable ability to articulate and analyze conceptual elements of brain development. Because of her skill and expertise, she has spent time with several notable institutions pursuing her research and ideas concerning the use of computer simulations and mathematical models along with abstractions and theoretical analysis of the brain. Significant experience includes:

• Computational Neuroscientist with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
• Post Doctoral Fellow at UCL at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroscience
• Klingenstein Third Generation Fellow at UCLA
• National Space Biomedical Research Fellow with NASA, Johnson Space Center
• The research threads taking priority in her work include building brain computational models, neuroimaging of attention and transcranial ultrasound to study 1/f spectral patterns.

Distinctions and Memberships

Her peers recognize Dr. Pamela Douglas in the academic industry and those who share her interest and passion for neuroscience and brain development. Because of her influence and work, she holds several distinctions and memberships. From the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation in Great Neck, New York, she earned the honour of NAWSAD Young Investigator with distinction.

She also achieved memberships with the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C. and the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Grants and Funding

Pamela’s research and fields of study interest others, leading to several awards for grants and funding to further the work. Some of the work she received funding for includes the following:

• Comprehensive Training in Neuroimaging Fundamentals and Applications with the NIH Clinical Center
• High Throughput Analysis of the ADHD 200 Data Set with the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation
• Leveraging Sparsity with the W.M. Keck Foundation
• Neuroengineering: Modeling Parkinson’s Disease with the National Science Foundation
• Structural and Functional Biomarkers of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder with the National Institutes of Health
• Translating Archetypal ADHD Neuroimaging Clusters for Diagnosis with the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

Pamela’s work is also widely recognized because of the many publications sharing her research and results.

Published Works

Pamela Douglas has had the honour of having multiple studies and articles published in peer-reviewed journals. This extensive selection of work adds great value to the field and guides others as they pursue similar studies. These journals include Front Neurosci, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience Methods and Current  Opinion in Neurobiology. She has a total of 52 publications and has thousands of citations from her peers.

Specific Interests 

Being a computational neuroscientist, Pamela appreciates the brain’s ability to organize itself and generate 1/f spectral rhythms that mirror those of the environment. She theorizes that the mirroring work of the brain reduces the energy requirements for the brain to model the environment and provide the most optimal learning landscape.

Through the years, her work involved transcranial ultrasound, fMRI and EEG for empirical data collection. She then combines data sets to create cognitive computational models. Her work applies pattern classification tools to evaluate representational patterns in fMRI data according to the parameters of a decoding framework.

Speaking Engagements

Dr. Pamela Douglas has also spent a lot of time working to inform and educate her peers on new developments and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, generative models, functional MRI and other areas of neuroscience. Some of her lectures and speaking engagements include:

• Explainable AI in Neuro-Imaging: Challenges and Future Directions.
• Beyond Linear Decoding: Introduction to Deep Learning Methods
• Method for Simultaneous fMRI/EEG Data Collection during a Focused Attention Suggestion for Differential Thermal Sensation
• Classification of Decision-Making and Spatial Colocalization of EEG/fMRI Data

Pamela has been featured in several workshops released on YouTube. Partners she worked with include the Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre, Cosyne Talks, the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics and the National Institutes of Health Center for Multimodal Neuroimaging.