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Epilepsy & Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship

Neurology Fellowship Brochure

Leadership

Maromi Nei, MD
  • Program Director
  • Adult Epilepsy Fellowship Program
  • Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program
Department of Neurology

For Program Information

Bruce R. Allen
Fellowship Program Coordinator

901 Walnut Street
Suite 400
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Fellows & Alumni

Current Fellows  2025 - 2026

Adult epilepsy fellows
  • Pooneh Ardestani, MD, PhD 
  • Brianna Casey, MD
  • Heping (Ann) Sheng, MD 
  • Anya Volski, MD 

Alumni

Adult Epilepsy Fellowship (2-year program)
Juan-Luis Alcala-Zermeno, MD  Columbia University, New York, NY  
Timothy Ambrose, MD Jefferson Univ. Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA  
Shmuel Appel, MD Ben-Gurion Univ of Negev, Beersheba, Israel  
Marjan Asadollahi, MD University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY   
Ritu Bagla, MD Lahey Clinic/Tufts University, Burlington, MA  
Niravkumar Barot, MD Beth Israel Deaconess,  Boston, MA  
Annapoorna Bhat, MD Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM  
Krzysztof Bujarski, MD Dartmouth Hitchcock, Lebanon, NH  
Melissa Carran, MD Cooper Univ Health Care, Camden, NJ  
David Chuang, MD Weill Cornell MC, New York, NY  
Sonia Gill, MD Inova Medical Group, Fairfax, VA  
Lilach Goldstein, MD Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel  
Maria Guina, MD Tidewater Physicians Group, Williamsburg, VA  
Camilo Gutierrez, MD Univ of Maryland, Baltimore, MD  
Ryan Hays, MD Univ of Texas SW Med Center, Dallas, TX  
Sigmund Jenssen, MD Presbyterian Neurology, Santa Fe, NM  
Joon Kang, MD Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD  
Itai Loushy, MD Jefferson Univ. Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA  
Megan Margiotta, MD Main Line Health, Paoli, PA  
William O'Connor, MD Center for Neuroscience, Media, PA  
James Park, MD Hoag Epilepsy Prog, Newport Neurospecialist, Irvin, CA  
Allyson Pickard, MD Jefferson Univ Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA  
Jyoti Pillai, MD Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA  
Louis Porreca, MD  Virtua Neurosciences, Marlton, NJ  
Mahnoor Rehman, MD Advocate Health Care, Park Ridge, IL  
Daniel Schere, MD Austin Epilepsy Care Center, Austin, TX  
Nicole Simpkins, MD Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas, TX  
Kartik Sivaraaman, MD Jefferson Abington Hospital, Abington, PA  
Joanna Suski, MD Lahey Clinic/Tufts University, Burlington, MA  
Lev Vaisman, MD, PhD Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN   
Andro Zangaladze, MD, PhD Jefferson Health NJ, Marlton, NJ  
TJUH/Nemours Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship (1-year program)
Imane Abdelmoumen, MD Pediatric Specialist at Elm St, Cone Health, Greensboro, NC
Nicole Brescia, MD Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Padmavati Eksambe, MD Banner Health, Tucson, AZ
Nicholas Harris, MD Cornell University Medical Center, New York, NY
Sharyu Krishnakumar, MD St. Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
Anna Melikshivili, MD Kaiser Permanente, CA 
Elise Mercier, MD  St. Christopher's Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Rachit Patil, MD Brown University, Providence, RI
Aparna Polavarapu, MD Montefiore MC, Albert Einstein COM
Sohum Trivedi, MD Neurology Center for Epilepsy * Seizures, Marlboro, NJ
Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship (1-year program)
Lara Basovic, MD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Marco Castro, MD Neurology Center of Fairfax, Fairfax, VA
Kelly Geary, DO Tower Health Medical Group, Limerick, PA
Nathaniel Fox, MD  Christiana Care, Wilmington, DE 
Eric Goldberg, MD Tidewater Neurologists & Sleep Specialists, Portsmouth, VA
Myra Hu, MD Sutter Health, Davis, CA
James Ko, MD Bergen Neurology, Englewood, NJ
Susan Lotkowski, DO Inspire Medical Group, Mullica Hill, NJ
Anca Popescu, MD Jefferson Health NJ, Cherry Hill, NJ
Shoichi Shimamoto, MD Baylor Scott & White Health, Round Rock, TX
Steven Swavely, MD Penn Medicine Lancaster, Lancaster, PA
Crystal Thomas, MD Weill Cornell Med College, NY-Presbyterian Med Group, Jackson Heights, NY
Seth Tuwiner, MD Virginia Center for Neuroscience, Leesburg, VA
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