Special edition newsletter

Inside this edition 2-4 Awards 9 Thank You

5-8 Where are they headed?

Neurology and Neurotherapeutics

From the Chair Dr. Mark Goldberg

Graduation 2015 was a big success with eleven residents and nine fellows completing their training.

I would like to thank our program directors and faculty for preparing our residents and fellows for the next step in their careers.

In this special edition newsletter, we recap the night with award winners and photos from the evening. We will also tell you where our trainees are headed next.

Congratulations to all!

Resident and Fellow Graduation 2015

Saturday, May 30

Dallas Petroleum Club

Awards

Ugo Chukwueke, M.D., served as the 2014-2015 co-

Chief Resident for the Adult Neurology Residency Program.

Her outstanding patient care and teaching were recognized

with several awards: Dr. Hal Unwin Outstanding Resident

Award; Parkland Hospital Resident Award; and Resident

Teaching Award. (Photo: Dr. Ugo Chukwueke and Dr. Steven

Vernino, Director, Adult Neurology Residency Program.)

Isaac Marin-Valencia, M.D., served as the 2014-2015

Chief Resident for the Child Neurology Residency Program.

His outstanding patient care and research were recognized

with the Dr. Hal Unwin Outstanding Resident Award and

the Weisberg-Rivera Manuscript Award. (Photo: Dr. Isaac

Marin-Valencia and Dr. Rana Said, Director, Child Neurology

Residency Program.)

Dr. Hal Unwin Outstanding Resident award

Resident teaching award

Dr. Lauren Phillips, Co-

Director, Neurology Clerkship,

and Meredith Bryarly, M.D.,

Teaching Award Recipient.

Dr. Lauren Phillips with Ugo

Chukwueke, M.D., Teaching

Award Recipient.

Dr. Lauren Phillips with Yuan

Xing, M.D., Teaching Award

Recipient.

Awards Graduation 2015

Dr. Oliver Sum-Ping was recognized for his

excellence and compassion in patient care with

the Stephen Damm Memorial Award.

Damm was an influential advocate for quality

patient care during his tenure with Children's

Medical Center and as a cancer patient. His

wife Tyra, and children, Katie and Cooper,

presented the award along with Dr. Shilpa

Chitnis, who was one of Steve’s physicians.

Child Neurology Resident

Excellence in care award

Neuroscience nurses at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas

recognized Daniel Gossett, M.D., for his excellence in

patient care. (Photo: Dr. Gossett with Dr. Rana Said)

Stephen damm memorial award

for compassion and excellence

Dr. Roger Rosenberg

outstanding fellow award

Outstanding Fellow for 2014-2015 was Dr. Chirantan

Banerjee who trained in Stroke and Vascular Neurology.

(Photo: Dr. Banerjee with Dr. Shilpa Chitnis, Associate Director

of Adult Neurology Residency Program.)

Graduation 2015 Awards

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Awards Graduation 2015

Dr. Roger Rosenberg (center) presented the Fred Baskin Young Investigator Award to Dr.

Sterling Ortega (left), Postdoctoral Research in the Neurorepair Lab, and Dr. Divyanshu

Dubey, Adult Neurology Resident. Dr. Dubey also received the Rivera-Weisberg Manuscript

Award.

RESEARCH DAYS

Our adult and pediatric

residency programs held

Research Days in Spring

2015. All trainees (medical

students, residents and

fellows) were invited to

present research posters

while senior residents gave

presentations on the

culmination of the research

projects they conducted as

residents.

Med Student Prize

Niyatee Sumadra, M.D., (left) won the Medical

Student Prize for her research. Dr. Sumadra joins

the neurology residency program for 2015-2016.

(Photo: Dr. Sumadra and Dr. Lauren Phillips.)

Trephined cranium award

Residents gave the Trephined Cranium Award to Dr. Ryan Hays in

recognition of his outstanding teaching skills. This was Dr. Hays’ second

time to win the award. (Photo: (l-r) Dr. Isaac Marin-Valencia, Dr. Ryan Hays,

Dr. Ugo Chukwueke and Dr. Zakraus Mahdavi.)

Fred baskin young investigator award

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Where are they headed? Graduation 2015

(From l-r) William Renthal, Meredith Bryarly, Yuan Xing, Aashoo Mentreddi, Ugo

Chukwueke, Claudia Perez, Zak Mahdavi and Oliver Sum-Ping.

Adult neurology residents take next step

Where are they

headed?

William Renthal, M.D.,

Ph.D.

Headache Medicine Fellowship,

Harvard Medical School

Meredith Bryarly, M.D.

Neuromuscular Fellowship, UT

Southwestern

Yuan Xing, M.D.

Movement Disorders

Fellowship, UC-San Diego

Aashoo Mentreddi, M.D.

Movement Disorders

Fellowship, UT Southwestern

Ugo Chukwueke, M.D.

Neuro-Oncology Fellowship,

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Claudia Perez, M.D.

Neurocritical Care Fellowship,

UT Southwestern

Zak Mahdavi, M.D.

Neurocritical Care Fellowship,

UT Southwestern

Oliver Sum-Ping, M.D.

Sleep Medicine Fellowship,

Stanford Adult Neurology Residents with Neurology Residency Program Directors, Dr. Steve Vernino

(far left) and Dr. Shilpa Chitnis (far right.)

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Where are they headed? Graduation 2015

(From l-r) Isaac Marin-Valencia, Kellie Shaw (Education Coordinator), Jennifer Muncy

Thomas, Dr. Rana Said, Daniel Gossett.

child neurology residents take next step

Where are they

headed?

Isaac Marin-Valencia, M.D.

Instructor in Molecular

Genetics, Rockefeller

University Hospital

Jennifer Muncy Thomas,

M.D.

Instructor, UT Southwestern

Daniel Gossett, M.D.

Epilepsy Fellowship, University

of Colorado School of Medicine

Child Neurology Program (above)

The awesome and agile duo of Dr. Rana Said and Kellie Shaw.

Graduating Child Neurology Residents: Isaac Marin-

Valencia, Jennifer Muncy Thomas and Daniel Gossett.

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Where are they headed? Graduation 2015

Chirantan Banerjee, M.D.,

pictured with Dr. Mark Johnson,

completed a Stroke and Vascular

Neurology Fellowship. He joins the

faculty of the Medical College of South

Carolina.

Fellows head into the future

Abdulradha Alqallaf, M.D., pictured

with Dr. Ryan Hays, completed a

Neurophysiology Fellowship and will

continue at UT Southwestern as an

Epilepsy Fellow.

Hamid Kadiwala, M.D., pictured

with Dr. Ryan Hays, completed a

Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship and

will be in private practice in Dallas-Fort

Worth.

Omar Elghawanmeh, M.D., pictured

with Dr. Ryan Hays, completed a

Neurophysiology Fellowship and will

continue at UT Southwestern as an

Epilepsy Fellowship.

Andrea Lowden, M.D., pictured with

Dr. Susan Arnold, completed a Clinical

Neurophysiology Fellowship and will

continue at UT Southwestern as an

Epilepsy Fellow.

Sudama Reddi, M.D., pictured with

Dr. Deborah Friedman, completed a

Headache Medicine Fellowship and will

join Texas Neurology Consultants at

Texas Health Presbyterian-Plano.

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Where are they headed? Graduation 2015

Christine Saldivar, M.D., pictured

with Dr. Jaya Trivedi, completed a

Neuromuscular Fellowship. She will be

in private practice in Austin, TX.

Fellows head into the future

Gulshan Uppal, M.D., pictured with

Dr. Ryan Hays, completed a Clinical

Neurophysiology Fellowship. He is in

private practice with Freeman

Neurospine in Joplin, Missouri.

Drew Thodeson, M.D., completed a

Pediatric Epilepsy Fellowship and will

continue at UT Southwestern as a

Clinical Neurophysiology Fellow.

Faculty members with Outstanding Fellow

of the Year, Chirantan Banerjee

(From l-r) Dr. Stephen Figueroa, Dr. Mark Johnson,

Dr. Chirantan Banerjee, Dr. Alejandro Magadan and

Dr. Mark Goldberg, Department Chair.

Neurophysiology Fellows

(From l-r) Abdulradha Alqallaf,

M.D., Omar Elghawanmeh,

M.D., Andrea Lowden, M.D.,

Hamid Kadiwala, M.D., and

Gulshan Uppal, M.D.

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A big “Thank You!” goes out to our Program Directors and Education Coordinators who made our graduation

ceremony a big success, but most importantly, who work hard all year-round to make all of our programs strong.

Thank you Graduation 2015

Thank you!

Dr. Rana Said, Child Neurology

Program Director, and Kellie

Shaw, Education Coordinator,

Child Neurology Program.

Dr. Shilpa Chitnis, Adult Neurology

Program Associate Director and

Fellowship Programs Director, and

Dr. Steve Vernino, Adult Neurology

Residency Program Director.

Pepper Wedgewood, Sr. Education

Coordinator for Adult Neurology

Residency Program, and Angela

Colon, Assistant Education

Coordinator.

Thank you also to our emcees for the evening, Shaida

Khan, Adult Neurology Resident, and Dallas Stobaugh,

Child Neurology Resident. Shaida also gathered hundreds of

photos of our residents for the slideshow. And thank you to

Julie Kirchem, our department photographer and

newsletter maker.

Photo: (l-r) Dr. Shilpa Chitnis, Shaida Khan and Dallas

Stobaugh.

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