The Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute (OBI) Grand Rounds provides a tri-annual continuing research education opportunity for all UT Southwestern faculty, residents, trainees, researchers, and research nurses to hear from national and international leaders in laboratory and clinical neuroscience in the clinical-translational space whose work is pointing the way toward novel therapeutic approaches to brain disease. The intent of the OBI Grand Rounds is to strengthen the scientific community, enhance transformational science and promote state-of-the-art clinical care. 

Dr. Bradley L. Schlaggar (ScB Brown University 1986; MD/PhD Washington University 1994) is the President and CEO of Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD, where he holds the Zanvyl Krieger Faculty Endowed Chair.  He is also a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Schlaggar directs the NICHD funded Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He also directs the NINDS funded Child Neurologist Career Development Program, supporting the early career development of aspiring physician-scientists. Prior to moving to Baltimore in August 2018, Dr. Schlaggar was the A. Ernest and Jane G. Stein Professor of Developmental Neurology, and Professor of Neurology, Radiology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics, at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. From 2005-2013, he served as the Pediatric Neurology Residency Director. From 2014-2018, he served as the Head of Pediatric & Developmental Neurology, co-Director of the Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center, and Neurologist-in-Chief at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He has received numerous awards for research, mentorship, clinical care, and community service, including the Philip R Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society, the Humanitarian Award from the Tourette Association of America, 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 Association of American Physicians.  Dr. Schlaggar's research efforts are directed at understanding the development of the brain's functional network architecture in typically and atypically developing children.