Bradley

Schlaggar

,

MD, PhD

About our president and CEO

Dr. Bradley Schlaggar is the president and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute and holds the Zanvyl Krieger Faculty Endowed Chair at Kennedy Krieger. He is also a professor of neurology and pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University. At the Institute, Dr. Schlaggar leads a team of more than 2,800 full and part-time staff and faculty members to advance the organization’s longstanding mission of improving the lives of children, adolescents and young adults with disorders and injuries of the brain, spinal cord and musculoskeletal system.

Education

Before joining Kennedy Krieger in 2018, Dr. Schlaggar served on the staff and faculty of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for 19 years, including four years as the division head of pediatric and developmental neurology, co-director of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and neurologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Schlaggar earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from Brown University, and Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In 1999, he completed his pediatric neurology residency training at St. Louis Children's Hospital and Washington University, where he served as the pediatric neurology residency director from 2005 to 2013. From 2014 to 2018, he served as the head of pediatric and developmental neurology, co-director of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and neurologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Dr. Schlaggar is a highly sought-after lecturer. He has published nearly 200 research papers and is recognized as a highly-cited (i.e., in the top 1 percent) investigator. He is a co-founder the Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. He has been recognized with numerous awards for research, mentorship, clinical care and community service, including the Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society, the Norman Geschwind Award for Behavioral Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology, the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, and the Frank Hatch Award for Outstanding Community Service from the John Merck Foundation. In 2021, he was elected into the Academy of American Physicians. Maryland’s The Daily Record has recognized him as a Most Admired CEO and a member of the Health Care Power List.

Dr. Schlaggar's research efforts, funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, have been directed at understanding the development of the brain's functional network architecture in typically- and atypically-developing children. Dr. Schlaggar’s clinical expertise is in pediatric movement disorders, including Tourette syndrome and developmental disorders of language and cognition.

Research

Dr. Schlaggar's research efforts, funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health, have been directed at understanding the development of the brain's functional network architecture in typically- and atypically-developing children. Dr. Schlaggar’s clinical expertise is in pediatric movement disorders, including Tourette syndrome and developmental disorders of language and cognition.

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Recent Research Publications

Horowitz-Kraus, T., Rosch, K., Fotang, J., Mostofsky, S.H., Schlaggar, B.L.; Pekar, J.; Taran, N., Farah, R., (2023) Fluent contextual reading is associated with greater synchronization of the visual and auditory networks, fluent reading and better speed of processing in children with dyslexia. Cortex, 168, 62-75.

McArthur, J.C., Augustine, E.F., Carmichael, S.T., Ferriero, D.M., Jensen, F.E., Jeste, S.S., Jordan, L.C., Llinas, R.H., Schlaggar, B.L., Sun, L.R., Pomeroy, S.L.,  (2023) Recognizing and Responding to the Needs of Future Child and Adult Neurology Care Through the Evolution of Residency Training. Annals of Neurology, 94(6), 1005–07.  

Seitzman, B. A., Anandarajah, H., Dworetsky, A, McMichael, A., Coalson, R. S., Agamah, A. M., Jiang, C., Gu, H.,  Barbour, D. L., Schlaggar, B.L., Limbrick, D.D., Rubin, J.B., Shimony, J.S., Perkins, S.M.,  (2023) Cognitive deficits and altered functional brain network organization in pediatric brain tumor patients. Brain Imaging Behavior, 17(6), 689-701.

D’Andrea, C.B., Marek, S., Van, A.N., Miller, R.L., Earl, E.A., Stewart, S.B., Dosenbach, N.U.F., Schlaggar, B.L., Laumann, T.O., Fair, D.A., Gordon, E.M., Greene, D.J., (2023) Thalamo-cortical and cerebello-cortical functional connectivity in development. Cerebral Cortex, 33(15) 9250–62. 

Dowling, A.V, Seitzman, B.A., Mitchell, T.J., Olufawo, M., Dierker, D.L., Anandarajah, H., Dworetsky, A., McMichael, A., Jiang, C., Barbour, D.L., Schlaggar, B.L., Limbrick, D.D., Strahle, J.M., Rubin, J.B., Shimony, J.S., Perkins, S.M., (2023) Cognition and Brain System Segregation in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients Treated with Proton Therapy.  Int J Part Ther. 10(1), 32-42.

Fekson, V.K., Michaeli, T, Rosch, K.S., Schlaggar, B.L., Horowitz-Kraus, T., (2023) Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study. Dev Cog Neuroscience, 60:101198.

Vazquez-Trejo V., Nardos, B., Schlaggar B.L., Fair, D.A., and Miranda-Dominguez O., (2022) Use of connectotyping on task functional MRI data reveals dynamic network level cross talking during task performance. Front Neuroscience, 2022 Oct 16:951907.

Seider, Nicole A., Babatunde, Adeyemo, Miller, Ryland, Newbold, Dillan J., Hampton, Jacqueline M., Scheidter, Kristen M., Rutlin, Jerrel, Laumann, Timothy O., Roland, Jarod L., Montez, David F., Van, Andrew N., Zheng, Annie, Marek, Scott, Kay, Benjamin P., Bretthorst, G. Larry, Schlaggar, B.L., Green, Deanna J., Wang, Yong, Petersen, Steven E., Barch, Deanna M., Gordon, Evan M., Snyder, Abraham Z., Shimony, Joshua S., Dosenbach, Nico U.F., (2022) Accuracy and reliability of diffusion imaging models.  Neuroimage.  1 July 2022.

Gordon, Evan M., Laumann, Timothy O., Marek, Scott, Newbold, Dillan J., Hampton, Jacqueline M., Seider, Nicole A., Montex, David F., Nielsen, Ashley M., Van, Andrew N., Zheng, Annie, Miller, Ryland, Siegel Joshua S., Kay, Joshua P., Snyder, Abraham Z., Greene, Deanna J., Schlaggar, B.L., Petersen, Steven E., Nelson, Steven M., Dosenbach, Nico U.F., (2022) Individualized Functional Subnetworks Connect Human Striatum and Frontal Cortex, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 32, Issue 13, 1 July 2022, Pages 2868–2884. 

Beeler, P., Jensen, N.O., Soyoung, K., Robichaux-Viehoever, A., Schlaggar, B.L., Greene, Deanna J., Black, K.J., Chakrabarty, R., (2021) Fractality of tics as a quantitative assessment tool for Tourette syndrome. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 19:20210742.

Taran, N., Farah, R., DiFrancesco, M., Altaye, M., Vannest, J., Holland, S., Rosch, K., Schlaggar, B. L., & Horowitz-Kraus, T., (2022) The role of visual attention in dyslexia: Behavioral and neurobiological evidence. Human Brain Mapping, 43 (5), 1720– 1737.

Zeng, Annie, Montez, David F., Marek, Scott, Gilmore, Adrian W., Newbold, Dillan J., Laumann, Timothy O., Kay, Benjamin P., Seider, Nicole A., Van, Andrew N., Hampton, Jacqueline, M., Alexopoulos, Dimitrios, Schlaggar, Bradley L., Sylvester, Gagan S., Wig, Caterina Gratton, McDermott, Kathleen B., Raichle, Marcus E., Gordon, Evan M., Dosenbach, Nico U.F., (2021) Parallel hippocampal-parietal circuits for self- and goal-oriented processing.  PNAS August 17, 2021. 118 (34).

Hoyt, C. R., Sherman, S. K., Brown, S. K., Newbold, D. J., Miller, R. L., Van, A. N., Shimony, J. S., Ortega, M., Nguyen, A. L., Schlaggar, B. L., & Dosenbach, N.U.F., (2021) Toward a More Comprehensive Assessment of School Age Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. Rehabilitation Process and Outcome. 2021 April 27.  

Newbold, Dillan J., Gordon, Evan M., Laumann, Timothy O., Seider, Nicole A., Montez, David F., Gross, Sarah J., Zheng, Annie, Nielsen, Ashley N., Hoyt, Catherine R., Hampton, Jacqueline M., Ortega, Mario, Adeyemo, Babtunde, Miller, Derek B., Van, Andrew N., Marek, Scott, Schlaggar, Bradley L., Carter, Alexandre R., Carter, Kay, Benjamin P., Greene, Deanna J., Raichle, Marcus E., Petersen, Steven E., Snyder, Abraham Z., Dosenbach, Nico U.F., (2021) Cingulo-opercular control network and disused motor circuits joined in standby mode.  PNAS March 30, 2021 118(13)

Liszka L, Heiny E, Smith J, Schlaggar B.L., Mathur A, Pineda R., (2020) Auditory exposure of high-risk infants discharged from the NICU and the impact of social factors. Acta Paediatr. 2020 Oct; 109(10):2049-2056.

Tripathy, K., Markow Z.E., Fishell A.K., Sherafati A., Burns-Yocum T.M., Shroeder M.L., Svoboda A.M., Eggebrecht A.T., Anastasio M.A., Schlaggar B.L., Culver J.P., (2020) Decoding Visual Information From high-density diffuse optical tomography neuroimaging data. Neuroimage. 2020 Oct 30:117516.

Gordon, Evan M., Laumann, Timothy O., Marek, Scott, Raut, Ryan V., Gratton, Caterina, Newbold, Dillan J., Greene, Deanna J., Coalson, Rebecca S., Snyder, Abraham Z., Schlaggar, B.L., Petersen, Steven E., Dosenbach, Nico U.F., Nelson, Steven M., (2020) Default-mode network streams for coupling to language and control systems.  PNAS 2020 July 6.

Newbold, Dillan J., Laumann, Timothy O., Hoyt, Catherine R., Hampton, Jacqueline M., Montez, David F., Raut, Ryan V., Ortega, Mario, Mitra, Anish, Nielsen, Ashley N., Miller, Derek B., Babatunde, Adeyemo, Nguyen, Annie L., Scheidter, Kristen M., Tanenbaum, Aaron B., Van, Andrew N., Marek, Scott, Schlaggar, B.L., Carter, Alexandra R., Greene, Deanna J., Gordon, Evan J., Raichle, Marcus E., Peterson, Steven E., Snyder, Abraham Z., Dosenbach, Nico U.F., (2020) Plasticity and Spontaneous Activity Pulses in Disused Human Brain Circuits.  Neuron 2020 June 16.

Kim, S., Greene, D.J., D’Andrea, C.B., Bihun, E.C., Koller, J.M., O’Reilly, B., Schlaggar, B.L., Black, K.J., (2020) Hippocampal Volume in Provisional Tic Disorder Predicts Tic Severity at 12-Month Follow-up. J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9, 1715.