Department of Neurology Faculty

	Anwer, Ursula Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Anwer is involved in the care of patients with sleep disorders, headache, and neurological problems of pregnancy.
	Bella, Isabelita Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Bella has a special interest in the clinical, electromyographic, and pathological aspects of neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Bella is the primary investigator at UMass for the multicenter study "Arrhythmias in Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy."
	Benjamin, Sheldon Dr. Benjamin is Director of Neuropsychiatry, Vice Chair for Education in Psychiatry, and Co-director of the UMass Combined Psychiatry/Neurology Residency Program.
	Bosco, Daryl Elucidating the factors involved in sporadic ALS and investigating protein mis-function associated with neurodegenerative disease
	Brown, Robert Professor of Neurology Chair, Neurology Dr. Brown’s laboratory has focused on the identification of gene defects that elucidate the molecular pathogenesis of selected neuromuscular diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), muscular dystrophy, adrenoleukodystrophy, hereditary neuropathy and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis. Knowledge of theses disease genes has facilitated the creation of mouse and cell-based models of these disorders. In turn, these resources have allowed study of therapeutic strategies using conventional small molecule approaches and new modalities such as inhibitory RNAi.
	Chu, Felicia Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Chu is an Epileptologist who cares for patients in the inpatient and outpatient settings.
	Carandang, Raphael Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Carandang is a neurointensivist and stroke neurologist who provides acute emergent and critical care for patients with ischemic stroke and other devastating neurological diseases like traumatic brain injury, cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage. His research interests include cerebral edema, subarachnoid hemorrhage, CNS vasculitis, stroke epidemiology and traumatic brain injury. He is studying post-traumatic cerebral edema and its possible genetic determinants and is co-investigator of Outcome Prognostication in Traumatic Brain Injury (OPTIMISM) study and the randomized clinical trial studying Dantrolene for cerebral vasospasm in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage among others. He is also co-founder of the New England Neurocritical Care Consortium that seeks to promote collaborative research in neurocritical care diseases in the region.
	Damon-Minow, Jill Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Damon-Minow is a clinical neuropsychologist with a broad interest in Neuropsychology .
	Dessureau, Brian Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry Dr. Dessureau has clinical interests in the neuropsychological assessment of adults and children; geriatric neuropsychology, and life-span developmental psychology.
	Dominov, Janice Assistant Professor of Neurology Investigates neuromuscular diseases with an emphasis on congenital and other muscular dystrophies, cell death mechanisms and inflammatory pathway regulation.
	Drachman, David Professor of Neurology Studies of Alzheimer's disease, the neurology of aging
	Eisenstock, Jordan Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry Dr. Eisenstock is a Neurologist and Psychiatrist with broad interests in Neuropsychiatry. Dr. Eisenstock directs the neurorehabilitation program at Fairlawn Rehab.
	Esteves, Miguel Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Esteves is a neuroscientist with interested in gene therapy to help treat neurodegenerative diseases.
	Fisher, Marc Professor of Neurology and Radiology Our Stroke Research Laboratory focuses on using imaging to evaluate stroke evolution and the effects of therapeutic interventions. We also participate in stroke therapy trials, for both acute therapy and stroke prevention.
	Fontneau, Nancy Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Fontneau is a clinical neurologist with special interests in electromyography, stroke rehabilitation, spasticity management and BOTOX therapy. She chairs the Neurology Department education committee.
	Gao, Fen-Biao Dr. Gao uses multidisciplinary approaches from fly models to patient-specific iPS cells to understand molecular pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia and related disorders.
	Garg, Neeta Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Garg specializes in the care of patients with multiple sclerosis, with research interests focused on the analysis of autoantibodies and vitamin D metabolism in multiple sclerosis.
	Gibson, Mark Assistant Professor of Medicine Dr. Gibson is a general clinical neurologist with special interests in genetics, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases and sleep medicine.
	Ginns, Edward Clinical Professor of Pathology, Neurology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry Program in Medical Genetics; Lysosomal Storage Disorders; Ellis-van Creveld syndrome; Search for Genes Involved in Manic Depressive Illness in the Old Order Amish; Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory
	Goddeau, Richard Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Goddeau is a Vascular (Stroke) Neurologist with a special interest in acute ischemic stroke therapies, intracerebral hemorrhage, and the role of inflammation in stroke incidence and recurrence. He serves as director both of the Vascular Neurology Fellowship and of the Stroke Program’s Quality and Patient Safety initiative for the Neurology Department.
	Hall, Wiley Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Hall is a neurointensivist caring for critically ill patients, including those with intracranial hemorrhage, cerebral edema, traumatic brain injury and neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Hall is the director of the NeuroICU and TeleStroke Services.
	Hayward, Lawrence Professor of Neurology and Physiology Motor Neuron Disease Mechanisms; Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis: a Muscle Ion Channel Disorder
	Henninger, Nils Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Henninger is a Vascular Neurologist with a strong research interest in the neurobiology of axonal injury associated with traumatic brain injury and ischemic stroke and its contribution to functional outcome.
	Indic, Prem
	Ionete, Carolina Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Ionete is a clinical neuroimmunologist and educator with special interests including clinical trials in multiple sclerosis and other autoimmnune neurological diseases, and neurological complications of HIV infections.
	Landers, John Genetics of Familial and Sporadic ALS
	Markley, Herbert
	Mitchell, Ann Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Mitchell is the Neurology Residency Program Director with clinical interests in sleep and memory disorders.
	Moodie, Jennifer Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Moodie is a Neuroimmunologist with clinical interest in Multiple Sclerosis. She also serves as the co-director of the Neurology Clinical Clerkship.
	Moonis, Majaz Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry Dr. Moonis is Director of Stroke Services and the Stroke Prevention Program.
	Muehlschlegel, Susanne Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Muehlschlegel is a neurointensivist devoted to improving the care of patients with catastrophic neurological injuries. Her research interests concentrate on outcome prognostication in Neurocritical care, particularly in moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. She is the principal investigator for several research studies at the UMASS Neuro-Intensive care unit (NeuroICU), including the Outcome Prognostication in Traumatic Brain Injury (OPTIMISM) Study. In addition, she is the site-principal investigator for clinical trials involving subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage and large ischemic strokes with severe brain edema.
	Nanjundaswamy, Shashidhara Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Nanjundaswamy is a stroke neurologist and cares for patients suffering from dementia, neuromuscular disorders, sleep disorders and stroke.
	Novak, Peter Assistant Professor of Neurology As Director of the Autonomic Testing Laboratory, Dr. Novak's clinical and research interests are focused on autonomic and movement disorders.
	Paydarfar, David Professor of Neurology and Physiology Vice Chair of Neurology Our research is devoted to understanding the neural control of autonomic functions. Specific areas of interest are the genesis of respiratory rhythm, the coordination of breathing and swallowing and the maintenance of circulation during upright posture. We seek to understand how normal control mechanisms break down and lead to certain disease states, e.g. central apnea, neurogenic aspiration, and neurally mediated syncope. Neurophysiological techniques are used in experiments on animal models, healthy humans and patients.
	Phillips, Catherine Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Phillips specializes in the management of refractory seizures, surgical treatment of epilepsy, and in all aspects of electroencephalography and epilepsy.
	Pollen, Daniel Professor of Neurology and Physiology Our major interest is in defining some of the neural correlates of visual perception and the sense of self as necessary first steps towards trying to understand how such knowledge may ultimately lead to an explanation of perception, mind, behavior and our identity as sentient beings. One aspect of work in this respect has been to define the functional significance of and interactions between the feed forward and feedback projections in the primate visual system. Our work to date has been focused on the electrophysiological studies of the primate visual system, but we are planning to extend our interests to related fMRI work in human subjects with selected disturbances of higher visual functions such as parietal neglect syndromes, agnosias and hemiachromatopsia.
	Pomorska, Grazyna Assistant Professor of Neurology
	Przybyszewski, Andrzej How the brain integrates streams of sensory information
	Qin, Lan Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Qin is a general clinical neurologist with special interests in neurophysiology, electrodiagnosis, neuromuscular disease and epilepsy. Dr. Qin is the Neurology Clerkship Director.
	Quinn, Colin Instructor in Neurology Dr. Quinn is a neuromuscular specialist with a particular research interest in clinical trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
	Ramzan, Muhammad Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Ramzan is a general clinical neurologist with special interests in neurophysiology, electrodiagnosis, neuromuscular disease, cerebrovascular disease, stroke and epilepsy.
	Ravin, Paula Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology Our Movement Disorder Center is involved in clinical trials involving neuroimaging of Parkinsonian disorders and in new drug therapies for Parkinson's disease.
	Riskind, Peter Clinical Professor of Neurology The Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at UMass Memorial Health Care participates in many clinical trials to evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of drugs and treatments for MS. Currently it is the site of several different clinical trials involving patients with Relapsing Remitting and Primary Progressive MS. We are involved in trials to prevent the future worsening of MS, and to improve the quality of life of our patients.
	Salameh, Johnny Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Salameh is a Neuromuscular medicine specialist and Stroke Neurologist. He serves as the Director of the Neuromuscular Division, EMG laboratory and NEALS Research at UMass Memorial Medical Center. Dr. Salameh special interests are in ALS, Myasthenia Gravis, clinical neurophysiology, muscular dystrophy and clinical research trials in neuromuscular disorders.
	Salurand, Ellen Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Salurand is a general clinical neurologist with special interest in dementia.
	Sargent, Jane Clinical Professor of Neurology and Surgery Dr. Sargent is a general clinical neurologist, including neuro-ophthalmology, neuromuscular disease, and electromyography.
	Savla, Lalit
	Schwartz, William Professor of Neurology Mammalian Circadian Clock
	Sodha, Naren Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Sodha has special interest in electrodiagnosis, stroke, and neuromuscular diseases.
	Sundar, Banu Assistant Professor in Neurology Dr. Sundar is a general neurologist who sees patients with a wide spectrum of neurologic disorders.
	Swearer, Joan Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry Dr. Swearer is a clinical neuropsychologist. Research interests include clinical features and treatment of dementing illnesses, epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis.
	Vydrin, Mikhail Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Vydrin is a general clinical neurologist with special interests in memory impairment, insomnia, geriatric neurology, headache, and psychosomatic disorders. Dr. Vydrin is an ABPN Board certified Diplomate in the subspecialty of Sleep Medicine.

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