Joseph Osorio, MD, PhD, is a neurosurgeon and the director of spinal oncology and deformity surgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC San Diego. He specializes in complex spine surgery and treats spinal conditions such as scoliosis, kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis and flatback syndrome. He also treats spinal tumors, cervical spinal problems, and degenerative conditions of the spine such as spondylolisthesis and stenosis. Because Dr. Osorio received both neurosurgical and orthopedic spine surgery training, he can assess spine conditions from an interdisciplinary perspective and recommend the most appropriate treatment for each patient. With individual patient goals in mind, if surgery is necessary, he will perform spine surgery utilizing the safest possible techniques tailored for each person. Dr. Osorio completed a post-graduate spine fellowship in adult and pediatric spinal deformity and scoliosis surgery at Columbia University in New York City. He completed his neurosurgery residency at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he also earned his medical degree. He holds a PhD in bioengineering from the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering. While at UCSF, Dr. Osorio received the Harold Rosegay Resident Teaching Award. He is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and the Scoliosis Research Society. His work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals and he presents widely at professional conferences. Dr. Osorio's personal interests include photography, golfing, deep sea and freshwater fishing and traveling. He enjoys spending time with his wife, three children and his extended family who live in San Diego, where he was born and raised. Dr. Osorio is fluent in Spanish.

Chamindra Gurusinghe Laverty MD is an associate clinical professor in the department of neurosciences at the University of California San Diego. She is a clinician-educator and clinical researcher serving pediatric and adult neuromuscular patients at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), VA San Diego Health Care System and Rady Children’s Hospital (RCH), focusing on genetic and acquired neuromuscular disease. She has been the director of the pediatric multidisciplinary neuromuscular clinic (Muscular Dystrophy Association, MDA) across two institutions, since 2011. She also pioneered and launched the first adult multidisciplinary neuromuscular (MDA) clinic at UCSD in 2016. At the VA, she is the lead neuromuscular specialist caring for nearly all ALS veterans and severe but treatable acquired and genetic neuromuscular disease in our veterans. Since the start of her career, she has educated many neurology residents in the science of neurology, art of medicine, and has mentored and nurtured their growth and development as doctors and individuals. Teaching has always been a passion as she continually seeks to improve the methods of learning and use technology to learn complex topics. Her work week encompasses half a day of didactics with the fellows, about an hour teaching resident from other disciplines and nearly all remaining time spent doing hands-on training with neurology residents and fellows in the practice of medicine. Lastly, she is a clinical researcher focused on improving the survival and quality of life of her patients.

Nikhil Murthy, MD, MS, MBA, is a neurosurgeon who specializes in peripheral nerve and spine surgery at UC San Diego. He has expertise in treating nerve injuries and nerve tumors throughout the body using the latest techniques including robotic nerve and spine surgery. He earned his MS and MD at Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his neurological surgery residency at Northwestern University. He also completed two specialized programs in peripheral nerve surgery at Mayo Clinic and complex spine surgery at Northwestern University, earned his MBA at Kellogg School of Management, completed a two-year medical education scholars program, and earned the FAME teaching award for excellence in medical education while at Northwestern. He is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and American Society for Peripheral Nerve. Dr. Murthy is distinguished by his research portfolio that includes multidisciplinary collaborative research projects related to biomedical engineering for education, neural regeneration, and artificial intelligence. His primary focus in research is peripheral nerve disorders, medical informatics and quality, and medical software and devices. He enjoys spending time with his family and friends along with drumming, tennis and traveling."

Stephanie Connoly has over 24 years in the industry mostly calling on neurologists for Epilepsy and MS. Stephanie is currently an Associate Director, Key Accounts for TG Therapeutics since November 2022. Prior to TG, she was a Senior Territory Manager for Biogen, Inc. for ten years. These past ten years, she has been working with neurologists and helping patients with MS. She cares deeply about helping others including her physicians, medical staff and especially the patients. She also worked for Cyberonics (now Live Nova) helping epileptologists/neurologists and patients with refractory epilepsy with VNS therapy for three years. Stephanie started her pharma career at Shire US, Inc. by helping patients living with epilepsy and ADHD for ten years.
Stephanie is professional, organized and detail oriented. She loves learning and bringing people together. Stephanie is also a mom of twins, Grant & Makena, who will be Juniors in high school. When not working, she enjoys walking their dog, Wally, traveling and spending time with family and friends. She is very honored to join the San Diego Neurosciences Society. She will give 100% in her role as Secretary.

Jonathan Verrier, Ph.D., M.S., is a principal medical science liaison (field-based extension of medical affairs) for EMD Serono, a large pharmaceutical company based in Massachusetts. He has been with EMD Serono for several years, and prior to that he worked at Teva Pharmaceuticals and Dova Pharmaceuticals. His industry experience has largely been sporting products in the neurology space during the pre- and post-launch phases. Currently he works in the Multiple Sclerosis therapeutic area but has previous experience in movement disorders, psychiatry, and migraine. Prior to joining industry, Jonathan was an academic researcher working in the field of neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Jonathan completed his undergraduate degree in Neurobiology at the University of Vermont in Burlington, his Master's in Pharmacology at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston, and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and routinely attends medical conferences focused on Neurology. Jonathan has published numerous articles in scientific journals and has presented at major medical meetings. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and their pet dog as well as hiking and surfing.