Neurological Surgery Residency and Fellowship Alumni

Residents

NameYear
Lito Porto, M.D. 1965
Robert Stockton, M.D. 1966
Gary Hutchinson, M.D. 1967
James Bland, M.D. 1968
Carlos Acosta, M.D. 1969
Clark Watts, M.D. 1970
Phil Williams, M.D. 1971
Gary Kaufman, M.D. 1972
Harvey Birsner, M.D. 1972
Charles Sternbergh, M.D. 1973
Martin Lazar, M.D. 1973
Larry Rogers, M.D. 1974
Nick Grivas, M.D. 1974
Duke Samson, M.D. 1975
Doug Nielson, M.D. 1976
William Reid, M.D. 1977
Richard Hodosh, M.D. 1978
Edward Neuwelt, M.D. 1978
Michael Ditmore, M.D. 1979
Nicolas Kandalaft, M.D. 1980
Jeffrey Cone, M.D. 1981
Paul Scharf, M.D. 1982
Hunt Batjer, M.D. 1983
Bruce Mickey, M.D. 1984
Jacob Rosenstein, M.D. 1985
Thomas Kingman, M.D. 1986
Jonathan Paine, M.D. 1987
Oliver Lee Kesterson, M.D. 1987
Lowell Stanley, M.D. 1988
Donald Philip Megison, M.D. 1989
Melissa Neima, M.D. 1989
Philip Stieg, M.D. 1989
Cole Giller, M.D. 1990
Tim Adamson, M.D. 1991
Yves Meyer, M.D. 1991
Scott Schlesinger, M.D. 1992
David Kosmoski, M.D. 1993
E. Hunter Dyer, M.D. 1994
Arnold Vardiman, M.D. 1995
Mahmood Moradi, M.D. 1996
Greg Adderholt, M.D. 1996
Mark D’Alise, M.D. 1996
Kevin Teal, M.D. 1997
Louis Horn, M.D. 1998
Frank Fichtel, M.D. 1999
Fraser Landreneau, M.D. 1999
Matthew Wills, M.D. 1999
Brett Dietze, M.D. 2000
Jonathan White, M.D. 2000
Jon Krumerman, M.D. 2001
Lee Kern, M.D. 2002
Kevin Morrill, M.D. 2002
Vinay Deshmukh, M.D. 2003
Richard Stovall, M.D. 2003
Zeena Dorai, M.D. 2004
Debra Steele, M.D. 2004
Samuel Barnett, M.D. 2005
Thomas Psarros, M.D. 2005
Shawn Moore, M.D. 2006
Talmadge Trammell, M.D. 2007
Kelly Schmidt, M.D. 2008
Chris Lothes, M.D. 2008
Joseph Beshay, M.D. 2009
Steve Brown, M.D. 2009
Armen Choulakian, M.D. 2010
Atif Haque, M.D. 2010
Erika Petersen, M.D. 2010
Bryan Wohlfeld, M.D. 2011
Brad McGowan, M.D. 2011
Albert Lee, M.D. 2012
Michael Gomez, M.D. 2013
Jeremy Lewis, M.D. 2013
William 'Chip' Scott, M.D. 2014
Charles Hatchette, M.D. 2014
Adam Griffith, M.D. 2015
Daniel Klinger, M.D. 2015
Benjamin Boudreaux, M.D. 2016
Bruno Flores, M.D. 2016
Brett Whittemore, M.D. 2016
James Botros, M.D. 2017
John Cain, M.D. 2017
Kathryn Hoes, M.D. 2018
Salah Aoun, M.D. 2019
Robert Funk, M.D. 2019
Ankur Patel, M.D. 2019
Matthew Davies, M.D. 2020
Awais Vance, M.D. 2020
Tarek El Ahmadieh, M.D. 2021
Benjamin Kafka, M.D. 2021
Om Neeley, M.D. 2022
Aaron Plitt, M.D. 2022
Chen Shi, M.D. 2022
Scott Connors, M.D. 2023
Zachary Johnson, M.D. 2023
Vin Shen Ban, MB BChir MRCS MSc 2023
Carl Youssef, M.D. 2023
James Caruso, M.D. 2024
Matthew MacAllister, M.D. 2024
Vishal Patel, M.D. 2024

Fellows

Cerebrovascular

NameYear
Michael Murphy, M.D. 1993
Mark Dexter, M.D. 1999
John McMahon, M.D. 2001
Hisham Al-Khayat, M.D. 2004
Eric Hauck, M.D. 2008
Caleb Feliciano, M.D. 2011
Jeremy Lewis, M.D. (Skull base) 2014
Jeff Beecher, M.D. 2016
Rafael De Oliveira Sillero, M.D. 2017
Young-Jun Kim, M.D. 2020

Functional

NameYear
Jason Hsieh, M.D. (CAST) 2024

Spine

NameYear
Christopher Abood, M.D. 1997
Vinay Deshmukh, M.D. 2003
Atif Haque, M.D. 2009
Achal Parsotam, M.D. (CAST) 2018
Salah Ghassan Aoun, M.D. (CAST) 2020
Omar S. Akbik, M.D. (CAST) 2021
Benjamin R. Kafka, M.D. 2022
Ibironke Emmanuel, M.D. 2023
Ahmed Moussa, M.D. 2024

Neurocritical Care

NameYear
Cyrus Dastur, M.D. 2010
Stanley Lue, M.D. 2011
Aashish Patel, M.D. 2011

Pediatrics

NameYear
Dmitry Kopachev, M.D. 2020
Abdulbaki Kozan, M.D. 2020
Young-Jun Kim, M.D. 2020
Hossam Youssef, M.D. 2021
Jo Ling Goh, M.D. 2022
Bassel Bali, M.D. 2023
Nida Fatima, M.D. 2023
Ahmed Moussa, M.D. 2023
Torin Karsonovich, D.O. 2024
Francsico Spessatto Pesente, M.D. 2024