Joel W. Parraghi
Undergraduate Research Fellow
  
 
 
  Joel has been working for Dr. James Patterson (Pat) McAllister II in the Department of Neurological Surgery as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF Student). His primary responsibility in the lab has been to apply cognitive and behavioral motor functioning tests to rat models of Hydrocephalus. As a secondary project, he has been working with newer surgical practices, designed by researchers in Dr. McAllister’s lab, of developing rodent models of communicating hydrocephalus.

Joel is a Lee Honors Student at Western Michigan University, working on a BA in Biomedical Science and Psychology, with a minor in Chemistry. He will finish his BA in April of 2007, and is currently working on his applications to MD/PhD programs to eventually work with clinical Neurology research.

 
     
 
Education
 
 

BA (Biomedical Science and Psychology), Western Michigan University

 2007  
     
 
Contact Information
  
 
Joel W. Parraghi
Department of Neurological Surgery
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Lande Medical Research Building, Room 48
550 East Canfield Detroit, MI 48201
Tel (313) 993-9269
Fax (313) 577-0448
E-mail: jparraghi@med.wayne.edu