Experience:

Since January 2011, Freelance Medical Writer and Scientific Consultant, Ballston Spa NY and Morgantown, WV: Developed slide sets and needs assessments for CME activities, grant applications, and peer reviewed manuscripts, including data analysis and visualization. Prepared executive summaries and meeting reports for pharmaceutical advisory boards

November 2008 - July 2014, Scientific Consultant, Ballston Spa, NY: Consulted on the planning, conduct, analysis, and publication of neurophysiological studies at West Virginia University

November 2008 – January 2011, Medical Writer, The Selva Group, Saratoga Springs, NY: Conceptualized and developed presentations for use in peer-to-peer medical education and advisory boards. Wrote peer reviewed publications and enduring materials. Developed scripts for video recording of medical presentations. Therapeutic areas covered included multiple sclerosis, depression, pain, osteoarthritis and cardiovascular disease.

November 2003 – November 2008, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV: Characterized the neurotransmitter basis of brainstem auditory responses in rats, created a model for auditory gap detection. Published four peer reviewed papers, four abstracts and co-wrote a funded RO-1 grant application.

July 2000 – September 2003, University of California, San Diego: Characterized the contribution of dopamine receptors to the response to psychostimulant drugs, using transgenic mice. Investigated the effectiveness of pharmacological and behavioral tinnitus treatments. Developed physiological models of tinnitus. Coordinated the research contributions of five separate departments. Published one peer reviewed paper

September 1995 – April 2000, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany: Created an animal model of rehabilitation learning with cochlear implants. Published two peer reviewed papers.

October 1985 - September 1995, Elisabethenstift, Darmstadt, Germany: Nurse's aide in a psychiatric inpatient ward. Cared for patients with schizophrenia, depression, mania, obsessive compulsive disorder, substance abuse problems, Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

 

 

Education:

 

Degrees:

Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg: Ph.D. in Neuroscience 2001

Technische Hochschule Darmstadt: M.A. in Biology 1995

Technische Hochschule Darmstadt: B.A. in Mathematics 1991

 

Computer Skills:

Windows, Microsoft Office, literature searches and databases using Reference Manager and Endnote, developing graphics in Photoshop, GIMP and Power Point, statistical analyses using SPSS.

 

Languages:

English and German

 

 

Publications:

 

Gao F, Kadner A, Felix RA, Chen L, Berrebi AS. Forward masking in the superior paraolivary nucleus of the rat. Brain Struct Funct. April 2016. doi:10.1007/s00429-016-1222-0016-1222-0 .

Felix RA, Kadner A, Berrebi AS. Effects of ketamine on response properties of neurons in the superior paraolivary nucleus of the mouse. Neuroscience. 2012;201:307-319.

Kadner, A., Berrebi, A. S. Encoding of temporal features of auditory stimuli in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body and superior paraolivary nucleus of the rat. Neuroscience. 2008; 151 (3) 868-887.

Kulesza Jr, R. J., Kadner, A., and Berrebi, A. S. Distinct Roles for Glycine and GABA in Shaping the Response Properties of Neurons in the Superior Paraolivary Complex of the Rat. J.Neurophysiol. 2007; 97(2) 1610-1620.

Kadner, A., Pressimone, V. J., Lally, B. E., Salm, A. K., and Berrebi, A. S. Low-Frequency Hearing Loss in Prenatally Stressed Rats. Neuroreport 2006;17(6):635-8.

Kadner, A., Kulesza, R. J., Jr., and Berrebi, A. S. Neurons in the Medial Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body and Superior Paraolivary Nucleus of the Rat May Play a Role in Sound Duration Coding. J.Neurophysiol. 2006;95(3):1499-508.

Kadner, A., Viirre, E., Wester, D. C., Walsh, S. F., Hestenes, J., Vankov, A., and Pineda, J. A. Lateral Inhibition in the Auditory Cortex: An EEG Index of Tinnitus? Neuroreport 2002;13(4):443-6.

Kadner, A. and Scheich, H. Trained Discrimination of Temporal Patterns: Cochlear Implants in Gerbils. Audiol.Neurootol. 2000;5(1):23-30.

Wang, X, Kadner, A, and Scheich, H. Neuronal and Behavioral Discrimination Between Upwards And Downwards Modulated Pulse Interval Modulation in Cochlear Implanted Gerbils. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 1999;14:201-8.