Faculty and Staff

Jessica Ailani, MD

Director, MedStar Georgetown Headache Center
Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Headache

Yasir Al-Khalili, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

Fahd Amjad, MD, MS

Co-Clinical Director, HD CERC
Attending Physician, Movement Disorders
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Movement Disorders

Faria Amjad, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Director of Clinical Research, Georgetown Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Center Director, Spasticity Clinic
Specialty: Multiple Sclerosis

Laxman Bahroo, DO

Director, Botulinum Toxin Clinic
Director, Residency Program, Department of Neurology
Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Movement Disorders

Brian Barry, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Attending Physician
Specialty: Neuroimmunology

Richard T. Benson, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Medical Director, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Attending Physician, Vascular Neurology
Specialty: Vascular Neurology

Joseph M. Choi, MD

Attending Physician, MDA and ALS Clinic
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: EMG/Neuromuscular diseases

Anne Constantino, MD

Attending Physician, Department of Neurology

Elliot Dawson, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

Sara Dehbashi, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

M. Carter Denny, MD, MPH

Attending Physician, Vascular Neurology
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Vascular Neurology

Carrie O. Dougherty, MD

Program Director, Headache Fellowship
Attending Physician, Headache Center
Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Headache

Matthew A. Edwardson, MD

Attending Physician, Stroke Center
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Vascular Neurology

Rhonda B. Friedman, Ph.D

Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neurology
Director, Center for Aphasia Research and Rehabilitation

Ishita A. Gambhir, MD

Attending Physician, Movement Disorder Clinic
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Movement Disorders

William Garmoe, Ph.D., ABPP-CN

Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist
Director of Psychology, MedStar National Rehabilitation Network (MNRN)
Specialty: Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychology

Heidi R Getz, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Nady Golestaneh, Ph.D, MS

Director, The Golestaneh Lab
Director of Research, Department of Opthalmology
Associate Professor, Departments of Opthalmology, Neurology, Biochemistry

Anna Greenwald, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Director, Right-Hemisphere Emotion, Cognition, and Recovery Lab

Katherine Hamilton, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pathology
Director of Neuropathology
Director, Harris Lab
Director, Georgetown Brain Bank
Co-Director, Histopathology and Tissue Shared Resource
Consulting Neuropathologist, DC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Specialty: Neuropathology

Edward B. Healton, MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurology and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine (MGUH)

Amie w. Hsia, MD

Medical Director, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Professor, Department of Neurology, Georgetown University
Specialty: Vascular Neurology

Rakesh Jaitly, MD

Attending Physician, Vascular Neurology
Specialty: Vascular Neurology

Chandni Kalaria, MD

Attending Physician, Vascular Neurology, Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, MedStar Georgetown University
Specialty: Vascular Neurology

Jagmeet Kanwal, Ph.D

Director, Neurophysiology and Behavior Lab
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

Galam Khan, MD

Associate Professor
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Assistant Director of Georgetown Brain Bank
Consultant Pathologist, Histopathology Shared Resource
MedStar Health /Georgetown University Medical Center

Yijung Kim, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Edina Komlodi-Pasztor, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Robert Laureno, MD

Professor of Neurology, Georgetown University
Chair, Department of Neurology, Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Mary Lee, MD

Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology

Matthew Levine, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Mark M. Lin, MD, Ph.D, FAAN

Professor, Department of Neurology
Director, Movement Disorders Division, Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Associate Chairman, Department of Neurology, Medstar Washington Hospital Center

Tina Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Director, Visual Perception and Plasticity Lab

Xiaoguang Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Steven Lo, MD

Attending Physician, Movement Disorder Clinic
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Movement Disorders

Prerna Malla, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Attending Physician, Department of Neurology, Medstar Washington Hospital Center
Specialty: Clinical Neurophysiology

Luis Manrique Trujillo, MBBS, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Douglas J. Mayson, MD

Attending Physician, Stroke Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Vascular Neurology

Andrei Medvedev, PhD, MS

Professor Emeritus, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging

Aaron Meyer, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Cameron Mohammadi, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Gholam Motamedi, MD

Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: EEG/Epilepsy

Charbel Moussa, MBBS, Ph.D

Professor of Neurology
Director- Laboratory for Dementia and Parkinsonism
Scientific and Clinical Research Director- Translational Neurotherapeutics Program
National Parkinson’s Foundation Center
Director- Lewy Body Dementia Research Center of Excellence
Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center
Director, Neurosciences Grand Rounds

Elizabeth Mundel, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Shakti V. Nayar, MD

Program Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: EMG/Neuromuscular Diseases

Elissa L. Newport, Ph.D

Director, Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery
Director, Learning and Development Lab
Professor, Department of Neurology

Benjamin J. Osborne, MD

Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology
Director, Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) Clinic
Director, Neuro-Ophthalmology Clinic
Co-Director, Multiple Sclerosis Fellowship Program
Specialty: Neurology, Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology

Fernando Pagan, MD

Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology
Director, Movement Disorders Program
Medical Director, Georgetown University Hospital National Parkinsonism Foundation Center of Excellence
Medical Director, Translational Neurotherapeutics Program
Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Movement Disorders

Sepideh Panahi, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Pooja Mohan Rao, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Jana Reifegerste, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Brigid Reynolds

Instructor, Department of Neurology

Haideh Sabet, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

Pamela A. Saunders, Ph.D

Professor, Medical Educator Track
Department of Neurology

Syed H. Shabbir, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Sarah Snider, M.A., CCC-SLP

Instructor, Department of Neurology

Sana Somani, MD, MBBS

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Andrew B. Stemer, MD

Director, Stroke Center
Vascular Neurologist and Neuro Interventional Radiologist
Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Radiology
Specialties: Vascular Neurology, Neurointerventional Radiology

Ted Supalla, Ph.D

Professor, Departments of Neurology, Linguistics, and Psychology
Director, Sign Language Research Lab
Center for Brain Plasticity and Research

Francis G. Tirol, MD

Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: EEG/Epilepsy

Tricia Y. Ting, MD

Professor, Department of Neurology
Regional Director of Epilepsy, MedStar Health
Specialty: EEG/Epilepsy

Amanda Tinsley, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology

Toluwalase Tofade, MBBS, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

Carlo Tornatore, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology
Executive Director, Multiple Sclerosis Patient Centered Specialty Practice
Co-Director, Neurology Clerkship, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Specialty: Multiple Sclerosis

Yasar Torres-Yaghi, MD

Attending Physician, Movement Disorders
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Specialty: Movement Disorders

Rochelle E. Tractenberg, Ph.D

Professor, Department of Neurology
Director, Collaborative for Research on Outcomes and -Metrics
Co-Director, National Capital Spinal Cord Injury Model System

Peter E. Turkeltaub, MD, PhD

Professor, Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine
Director, Cognitive Recovery Lab
Director, Aphasia Clinic, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital
Director, Neuroscience of Language Training Program
Associate Director, MD/PhD program
Medical Director, Center for Aphasia Research and Rehabilitation
Georgetown University Medical Center