Former Adult Neurology Residents

Alanna Balbi, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio

Alicia Brady, MD
Fellowship: Neuromuscular Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Anna Cai, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology EMG, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Evan Hess, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Alexander Houck, MD
Fellowship: Behavioral Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Adam Kroopnick, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Arielle Lehman, MD
Fellowship: TBI and Sports Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute

Edward Lee, MD
Fellowship: Stroke, New York University

Luke Massaro, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology/Epilepsy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Grace Russo, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, New York University

Emanuele Barca, MD
Research: Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Amanda Bilski, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, NYU

Alec Friedman, MD
Fellowship: Neuroimmunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Danish Ghazali, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology-EMG, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Christoforos Koumas, MD
Fellowship: Neurophysiology/EMG,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Sean Marinelli, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, University of Washington, Seattle

Amol Mehta, MD
Fellowships: Vascular Neurology and Neuroendovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai

Robert Rifkin, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Austin Wang, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Casey Young, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, Mount Sinai Beth Israel 

Jeremy Ader, MD, MBA
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia/Cornell/NYP

Ifewinya Asonye, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia/Cornell/NYP

Li Hui Chen, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Rachelle Dugue, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Stanford University

Eileen Harrigan, MD
Fellowship: Palliative Care, New York University 

Francesco Michelassi, MD, PhD
Fellowship: R25 Research Fellowship (Neuromuscular),  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Mariel Pullman, MD 
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York

Greer Waldrop, MD, MS
PGY5 Chief Resident Year,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Fellowship: Neuroimmunology fellowship, UCSF

Tommy Wilson, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Psychiatry residency, Johns Hopkins University 

Vivian Yang, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Harvard University/Mass General Hospital 

Charles Beaman, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology and Interventional Neuroradiology, UCLA

Nathan Carberry, MD
Fellowship: EMG, CUIMC/NYP

Justine Chen, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, University of Texas 

Brian Fidali, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Eva Franzova, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Bryanna Gulotta, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, University of Penn

Krishna Kandregula, MD
Fellowship: Stroke, Univeristy of Cincinnati 

Fernanda Carvalho Poyraz, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Matthew Schelke, MD
Chief Resident,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Matthew Viereck, MD
Fellowship: Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Elizabeth Chernyak, MD
Neurohospitalist Attending: Neurohospitalist, Maimondes Medical Center

Prajwal Ciryam, MD
Fellowship: NeuroIntensive Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Samantha Epstein, MD
Fellowship: Neuroimmunology/MS, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Konstantin Karmazin, MD

Nina Massad, MD
Fellowship: NeuroIntensive Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Elizabeth Matthews, MD
Chief Resident: Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Andrew Michalak, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neuropysiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Sara Radmard, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Hannah Roeder, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, University of Iowa

Steven Shapiro, MD
Fellowship: Interventional Neuroradiology, Westchester Medical Center
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Kara Shetler, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Marissa Barbaro, MD
Fellowship: Neurological Oncology,  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Olivia Begasse de Dhaem, MD
Fellowship: Headache Fellowship MGH, Harvard

Jenna Ford, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Jean Lopez, MD
Private Practice: Clinical Neurology, Westchester

Jessica Magid-Bernstein, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Anna Nordvig, MD
Fellowship: Behavioral Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Kathryn Rimmer, MD
Fellowship: Neuro-Immunology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Helen Shi, MD
Assistant Professor: Neurology [Neurohospitalist], Emory University

Steven Tobochnick, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Brigham & Women’s, Harvard

Genna Waldman, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Rachael Benson, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Behnaz Esmaeili, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard

Hillary Grosso, MD, PHD
Fellowship: Aging and Dementia, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Joanne Guo, MD
Fellowship: Multiple Sclerosis, UCSF

Seyed Pouyan Jalali, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Rachel Mehendale, MD
Fellowship: Neurohospitalist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Jason Neal MD, PhD
Fellowship: Stroke/Neurovascular, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

David Robinson, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, University of Cincinnati

Jessica D. Schulte, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neurological Oncology, UCSF

Johnny Sun, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, UCSF

Andrew Taylor, MD
Fellowship: Neurophysiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Andrew Bauerschmidt, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Judy Ch’ang, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, University of California, San Francisco

Julia Ciampa Shervans, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neurotherapeutic Development, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University

Claudiu Diaconu, MD
Fellowship: Neuroimmunology/R25, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Lauren Dunn, MSD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Minji Kim, MD
Fellowship: Neurophysiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Bradley Klein, MD
Fellowship: Stroke, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Ashley Roque, MD
Fellowship: Neurological Oncology, Yale School of Medicine

William  Roth, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Erin Beck, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neuroimmunology, National Institutes of Health

Laura Donovan, MD
Chief Resident, Fellow, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Brad Kamitaki, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Artem Kaplan, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Christine Kim, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Eliza Miller, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Shelly Regev, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiolog, New York University

Kaitlin Reilly, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Mount Sinai

Alexandra Reynolds, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Alton E. Sartor, MD, MBA
Fellowship: Neuro-Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Ananda Fine, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neuro-Critical Care, MGH/BWH

Carl Gold, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, UCSF

Aya Haggiagi, MD
Fellowship: Neuro-Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Benjamin Kummer, MD
Fellowship: Stroke, Cornell Medical Center

Erika Marulanda-Londono, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, University of Miami

Divya Prabhu, MD

Aldo Rinaldi, MD
Fellowship: Palliative Care, MGH

Jennifer Sevush, MD
Fellowship: Stroke, Cornell Medical Center

Lauren Schaff, MD
Fellowship: Chief Resident, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Julio Vieira, MD
Fellowship: Headache, Montefiore Medical Center

Christina Blum, MD
Fellowship: Vascular, University of Pennsylvania

David Chung, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, MGH/BWH

Charles Esenwa, MD
Chief Resident: Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Manisha Gupte, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG/Epilepsy), Columbia University

Inna Kleyman, MD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG/Neuromuscular Medicine), Columbia University

Sara Rostanski, MD
Fellowship: Vascular, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Miriam Sklerov, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Steven Smith, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, New York University

Benjamin Tolchin, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Harvard

Shennan Weiss, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, UCLA

Michelle W. Bell, MD
Chief Resident:  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Carolyn J. Bevan, MD
Fellowship: Multiple Sclerosis, UCSF

Amy C. Jongetrng, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG/Epilepsy), Columbia University

Paulomi N. Kadakia, MD
Fellowship: Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania

Jutre A. Kurek, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, North Shore LIJ

Arjun V. Masurkar, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Aging & Dementia, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Kelly Matmati, MD, MSc
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Stony Brook University

Jeremy T. Ragland, MD
Fellowship: Neuro-Critical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Marianna Yugrakh, MD
Fellowship: The Headache Institute, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital

Rachel E. Ventura, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Multiple Sclerosis and Neuro-Ophthalmology, New York University

Adrienne Boire, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neuro Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Comana Cioroiu, MD
Chief Resident: Columbia University (to be fellow in 2013-2014 in Neuromuscular, Columbia University)

Cynthia Correll, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Barry Czeisler, MD
Fellowship: Neuro Critical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Alexandra Dimitrova, MD
Fellowship: Pain and Complementary Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University

Marco Gonzales-Castellon, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Megan Leitch, MD
Fellowship: Neuromuscular, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Mia Minen, MD, MPH
Fellowship: Neuropsychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ilana Ruff, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Munazza Sophie, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, North Shore- LIJ Health System

Brenton Wright, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Jason Diamond, MD, MPH
Attending Neurologist: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital – Hospitatrst service and Allen Hospital

Zianka Faltrl, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, NYU

Brandon Foreman, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Ilana Katz, MD
Fellowship: Multiple Sclerosis, Mount Sinai

Aaron Lord, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Kathleen Multrn, MD
Fellowship: Headache, Montefiore; Faculty: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Heidi Munger Clary, MD, MPH
Fellowship: Epilepsy, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Hiral Shah, MD
Chief Resident: Visiting Scholar: World Health Organization, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Linus Dashih Sun, PhD, MD
Post-doctoral research training: Neuroscience, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Christina Ulane, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Neuromuscular, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Faculty:  Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Billy Yung, MD
Fellowship: Epilepsy, University of Pennsylvania
Private practice in White Plains, NY

Sachin Agarwal, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Faculty: Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Sonja Blum, MD, PhD
Fellowship: Aging & Dementia, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Faculty: NYU

Leonid Groysman, MD
Fellowship: Vascular Neurology and Neurocritical Care, University of Southern Catrfornia

Christopher Hess, MD
Fellowship and post-doctoral research training: Movement Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Daniel Huddleston, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorders, Emory University
Faculty: Kaiser Permanente, Atlanta GA

Sushma Podila, MD
Fellowship: Neuromuscular, University of Michigan
Private practice Atlanta, GA

Cetrne Rahman, MD
Fellowship: Neurocritical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital
Faculty: North Shore – LIJ, New York NY

Mary Ann Thenganatt, MD
Fellowship: Movement Disorder, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Faculty: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX

Rebecca Traub, MD
Fellowship: Neuromuscular, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Private Practice: Abington Memorial Hospital, PA

Jose Vega, MD PhD
Assistant Professor: Departments of Immunology & Neurology, College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami FL

Mary Welch, MD
Fellowship: Neuro-Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Faculty: Albert Einstein College of Medicine