Leonardo Bonilha

Leonardo Bonilha, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-scientist who serves as Senior Associate Dean for Research at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, and Associate Vice-President for Health Sciences Research at the University of South Carolina. Bonilha has more than two decades of experience, having built his career at the intersection of clinical care, neuroscience research, and community outreach. Bonilha earned both his M.D. and Ph.D. in neuroscience at the State University of Campinas (Brazil), completed post-doctoral work in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Nottingham (UK), and underwent neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Bonilha's research has focused on computational neuroscience, especially how brain networks adapt after neurological injury. In particular, his research interests are in the mechanisms of language impairments following stroke and in epilepsy treatment outcomes. Provided by Wikipedia