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Vivek Khatri, PhD, MHS Candidate

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Baltimore, MD 21211

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EDUCATION

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Masters of Health Sciences (MHS) in Biostatistics

Graduation Date: 5/2015

THESIS: “Methods for nearest-neighbor propensity score matching in the

presence of missing covariate data”

Thesis Mentor: Elizabeth Stuart, PhD

Relevant coursework:

Bayesian Methods I and II

Statistical Methods for Sample Surveys

Statistics for Psychosocial Research: Structural Models

Survival Analysis I

Advanced Methods for Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies

Causal Inference in Medicine and Public Health I

Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Introduction to Clinical Trials

1999-2005 University of Pittsburgh

PhD in Neuroscience

THESIS: “Effects of adaptation in a somatosensory thalamocortical circuit”

Thesis Mentor: Daniel J. Simons, PhD

1995-1999 University of Chicago

BS with Honors in Neuroscience

THESIS: “Effect of inhibitory interactions between inhibitory neurons on

feedforward inhibition”

Thesis Mentor: Philip S. Ulinski, PhD

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT

2011-2012 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Center of Excellence for Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Brain Trauma and Neuroprotection Branch

Research Biologist

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POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

2010-2011 City College of New York

Dept of Biology

Postdoctoral Fellow

“Defining hearing onset: neural versus biomechanical origins”

Mentor: Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras, PhD

2008-2010 Vanderbilt University

Dept of Hearing and Speech

Postdoctoral Fellow

“Experience-dependent plasticity in the mouse midbrain”

Mentor: Daniel Polley, PhD

2005-2008 Hunter College

Dept of Psychology

Postdoctoral Fellow

“Encoding of self-generated whisker movements in awake rats”

Mentor: H.P. Zeigler, PhD

SELECTED ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS (of 11 total)

1) Khatri V, Bermejo R, Brumberg JC, Zeigler HP. Whisking in air: Encoding

of kinematics by VPM neurons in awake rats. Somatosensory and Motor

Research 27(2010):111-120.

2) Khatri V, Simons DJ. Angularly nonspecific suppression in rat barrel cortex.

Cerebral Cortex 17(2007):599-609.

3) Khatri V Hartings JT, Simons DJ. Adaptation in a thalamic barreloid and a

cortical barrel to periodic stimulation varying in frequency and velocity. J

Neurophysiol 92(2004): 3244-3254.

4) Bruno R, Khatri V, Land PW, Simons DJ. Thalamocortical angular tuning

domains within individual barrels of rat somatosensory cortex. J Neurosci,

23(2003): 9565-9574.

5) Khatri V, Ulinksi PS. Functional significance of inhibitory interactions

between inhibitory interneurons in visual cortex. Neurocomputing, 32-

33(2000): 425-432.

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COMPUTER SKILLS

General Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, SQL

Statistical/Computing R, SAS, Stata, Matlab, Mplus

Miscellaneous Latex, HTML

INVITED TALKS

“The stimulus asked the brain: Is this the right time?”

8/2010

Division of Science and Mathematics, Morehouse College

“Effects of temporal context on sensory processing”

6/2010

Department of Life Sciences, Winston-Salem State University

“Context-dependent sensory processing in normal rodents and

4/2010

neurological disease models”

Department of Neuroscience, New York Institute of Technology

“Principles of experience-dependent plasticity in the mouse

1/2010

inferior colliculus, thalamus, and cortex”

Auditory Splash Meeting, University of Pennsylvania

“Effects of stimulus history on sensory processing”

7/2009

Department of Biology, City College of New York

“Encoding the kinematics of self-generated whisker movements:

11/2008

A comparison of ventral posterior medial thalamic neurons to

their trigeminal ganglion inputs”

Barrels Satellite Meeting at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting

“Whisking in air: Encoding of kinematics by trigeminal ganglion

6/2007

neurons in awake rats”

Department of Psychology, Queens College

“Do trigeminal ganglion neurons know what the rat’s whiskers

4/2007

are doing during self-generated movements?”

Department of Psychology, Columbia University

“Angularly-nonspecific suppression in cortical barrels”

11/2005

Barrels Satellite Meeting at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting

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