Meet our Clinicians

Karla Thompson, PhD

Karla Thompson, PhD, serves as the BBHP/MWA’s neuropsychologist and provides neuropsychological evaluations and consultations.  She is an assistant professor in the UNC Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, with a joint appointment in Psychiatry.  She is a neuropsychologist with more than 17 years of experience in evaluating and treating patients with traumatic brain injuries, strokes, anoxic brain injuries, brain tumors, dementias, and other forms of cognitive impairment.  She also works with patients with other kinds of disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries.  She is a research collaborator with the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, has served on the Board of Directors for the Brain Injury Association of NC, and is the faculty facilitator of UNC’s Brain Injury Support Group.

Ana Felix, MBBCh

Ana C.G. Felix serves as Lead Neurologist Brain and Body Program at UNC. Dr. Felix is a Board Certified Adult Neurologist with additional fellowship training in Vascular Neurology. She graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand (MBBCh) in South Africa in 1989 and completed her Neurology Residency at Boston City Hospital and the Combined TUFTS Neurology Training Program, followed by Vascular Fellowship at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. Dr. Felix joined the faculty at UNC in 2002 and has a strong interest in clinical neurology, with a focus on patient-centered care and shared decision-making. In addition to her work with The Brain and Body Program at UNC, Dr. Felix serves as an embedded Neurologist in the Internal Medicine and Geriatrics Clinics. Dr Felix has been awarded the Medical Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professorship, for her ongoing work teaching, advising and mentoring students, residents and fellows in multiple specialties at the UNC School of Medicine.

Dana Lebo, PhD

Dana Lebo serves as the Life Skills and Transition Coach for Brain and Body. She is a coach, leadership trainer, and licensed psychologist with Bell Leadership Institute. For 20 years, Dr. Lebo has applied her extensive background in psychologies of performance, health, sports, and whole brain integration to help hundreds of individuals, teams, couples, and families achieve their goals in their professional and personal lives. Dr. Lebo devotes her career to helping people build the skills of leadership and manage the stress, conflict, and complexities of busy home and work lives.

Dr. Lebo earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University and Master’s degrees from Columbia’s Teachers College and Georgetown University’s School of Graduate Studies. She began her career in the field of international development with fellowships to study anthropology and Arabic in the Middle East, manage projects at a global relief agency in Cairo, and teach resettlement skills to refugees at the American Cultural Center in Alexandria, Egypt.

Shawn F. Kane, MD

Family Medicine

Shawn Kane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UNC-Chapel Hill. A native of New York, he attended Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA where he played varsity football and was in ROTC.  Upon graduation he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Army Medical Service Corps and attended the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences for medical school.  Upon medical school graduation, he was promoted to Captain and completed his Family Medicine Training at Womack Army Medical Center at FT Bragg, NC and then completed his Sports Medicine Fellowship at the National Capital Consortium at Ft Belvoir, VA/Bethesda, MD.  He went on to serve a total of 27 years in the US Army, most of them as a physician in the US Army Special Operations Command.  In 2018, he retired from the Army and started his second career here at UNC.  He is board certified in Family Medicine and has a certificate of added qualification in Primary Care Sports Medicine.