Previous Fellows

2023-2025: Ashley Graziano, DO (Neur)
• Assistant Professor of Neurology
• University of Virginia
• Charlottesville, VA

2021-2023: Muhammad Usama Shah Hamdani, MD (IM)
• Intensivist at Atrirum Health
• Macon, GA

2020-2022: Jessica Johns, MD (Neur)
• Assistant Professor of Neurology
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Richmond, VA

2021-2022: Alexandria Marino, MD, PhD (NSGY)
• Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
• Marshall University
• Huntington, WV

2020-2021: Bharghav Desai, MD (NSGY)
• Neurosurgeon at Mercyhealth
• Rockford, IL

2019-2020: Saul Morales, MD (NSGY)
• Neurosurgeon at Oschner Health
• Lafayette, LA

2018-2020: Thomas Kodankandath, MD (Neur)
• Assistant Professor of Neurology
• Carilion Clinic
• Roanoke, VA

2017-2019: Pushpa D Rathod, MBBS, DA (Anes)
• Internal Medicine practice in Virginia

2016-2018: Chintan Ramani, MBBS (IM)
• Pumonary Critical Care and Neurointensivist at Lehigh Valley Health Network
• Allentown, PA

2015-2017: Firas Abdulmajeed, MB, ChB (IM)
• Associate Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Neurology
• University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Pittsburgh, PA

2014-2016: Andrew Schomer, MD (Neur)
• Associate Professor of Neurology
• University of Virginia
• Charlottesville, VA

2013- 2014: Mohamed Sharaby, MD (Neur)
• Practicing Ophthalmologist
• Mary Washington Healthcare
• Fredericksburg, VA

2012- 2014: Malcolm Dunne, MD (Neur)
• Neurointensivist in Tucson, AZ
2010-2012: Parita Bhuva, MD (Neur)
• Medical Director of Stroke Program at the Texas Stroke Institute
• Plano, TX

2009-2011: Ali Elsayed, MD (IM)
• Assistant Director MICU
• Intensivist at Hackensack-UMC- Mountainside Hospital
• Hackensack, NJ
*Fellowship combined with Internal Medicine Critical Care

2008-2010: Ivan Mikolaenko, MD (Neur)
• Neuro-Intensivist and General Neurology
• The Neurology Institute
• Coral Springs, FL

2006-2008: Alexander Grunsfeld, MD (Neur)
• Medical Director for Sentara Neurosciences
• Chief of Neurology for Sentara Medical Group
• Norfolk, VA

2005-2007: Andreas Kramer, MD (IM)
• Clinical Associate Professor, Critical Care and Clinical Neurosciences
• University of Calgary
• Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2004-2007: Jeffrey Fletcher, MD (Neur)
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
• University of Michigan
• Wyoming, MI

2002-2004: Sarice Bassin, MD (Neur)
• Neurologist
• PeaceHealth Medical Center
• Vancouver, WA

2001-2003: Teresa Smith Jacobs, MD (Neur)
• Medical Director, Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit
• Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery and Neurology
• University of Michigan
• Ann Arbor, MI

1999-2001: George A. Lopez, MD PhD (Neur)
• Neurointensivist and Neurohospitalist
• Swedish Neuroscience Institute
• Seattle, WA

1998-2000: J. Javier Provencio, MD, FCCM, FAAN, FNCS (Neur & IM)
• Louise Nerancy Professor of Neurology
• Professor of Neuroscience, Center of Brain Immunology and Glia
• Medical Director of the Nerancy Neuroscience ICU
• University of Virginia
• Charlottesville, VA
*Fellowship combined with Internal Medicine Critical Care

1996-1998: Bart Nathan, MD, FNCS (Neur)
• Professor of Neurology
• University of Virginia
• Charlottesville, VA

1995-1996: Gwendolyn Lynch, MD (Neur)
• Professor of Neurology
• Cleveland Clinic
• Cleveland, OH
*Fellowship combined with Vascular Neurology

1995-1996: Thomas Devlin, MD (Neur)
• Director of Stroke and Neuroscience Center
• CHI Memorial Hospital
• Chattanooga, TN
*Fellowship combined with Vascular Neurology

1993-1995: Cherylee W.J. Chang, MD, FCCM, FNCS (Neur & IM)
• Past President, Neurocritical Care Society
• President, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Division Chief, Neurocritical Care
• Professor of Neurology, Medicine, and Neurosurgery
• Duke University
• Durham, NC

1990-1992: David G Brock, MD (Neur)
• Former Medical Director of Neurostar, Inc
• Malvern, PA

Key: Neur=Neurology Trained, IM=Internal Medicine trained, Anes=Anesthesia trained