Dr. Victoria Marks

Tory received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami in 2017, and she completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and Physiology at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the Spring of 2023. During her thesis project under the supervision of Greg Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., she used cloud-integrated, patient-implanted systems to develop and deploy compact, real-time seizure detection algorithms for ambulatory humans. Leveraging the need to work with patients remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, she added a verbal memory task to tablets paired with patients' implanted DBS systems and investigated the effects of therapeutic stimulation on memory in people with epilepsy. Additionally, she completed two summer internships at Medtronic, Inc., developing a bench-top set-up for capturing and cataloging stimulation artifacts.

Tory joined the Denison Group in June of 2023 as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Neurotechnology. Her current research focuses on treating disorders of consciousness, especially improving the usability and utility of chronic stimulation paradigms.