Department of Neurology Faculty

	Alderson, Lloyd Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Alderson specializes in neurooncology in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors and cancer-associated effects on the nervous system.
	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.
	Carandang, Raphael Assistant Professor of Neurology
	Chad, David Professor of Neurology and Pathology Dr. Chad is a neuromuscular clinician, electromyographer, and educator. Special interests are in nerve and muscle histology and clinicopathological correlations for neuromuscular diseases. Dr. Chad is the Program Director for the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program.
	Damon-Minow, Jill Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology
	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.
	Drachman, David Professor of Neurology Studies of Alzheimer's disease, the neurology of aging
	Esteves, Miguel
	Eisenstock, Jordan Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
	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 Vice Chair of Neurology Dr. Fontneau is a general clinical neurologist with special interests in electromyography, stroke rehabilitation, spasticity management and BOTOX therapy.
	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
	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.
	Hayward, Lawrence Associate Professor of Neurology and Physiology Motor Neuron Disease Mechanisms; Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis: a Muscle Ion Channel Disorder
	Indic, Prem
	Ionete, Carolina Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Ionete is a clinical neurologist in the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, with research interests that include clinical trials in multiple sclerosis, virus-related demyelinating diseases, and neuro-HIV.
	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 and Neurology Clinic Physician Director with clinical interests in sleep and memory disorders.
	Moodie, Jennifer Assistant Professor of Neurology
	Moonis, Majaz Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry Dr. Moonis is Director of Stroke Services, Stroke Prevention Proram and Program Director of the Stroke Fellowship.
	Morris, Jane Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Morris specializes in cerebrovascular diseases and inpatient hospital care.
	Muehlschlegel, Susanne Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr Muehlschlegel is a neurointensivist with clinical interests including cerebral vasoconstriction syndromes and vasospasm, intracerebral hemorrhage, subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury.
	Nanjundaswamy, Shashidhara Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Nanjundaswamy cares for patients suffering from dementia, neuromuscular disorders, sleep disorders and stroke.
	Narayanan, Jaishree Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Narayanan is involved in the treatment of patients with intractable epilepsy, including their surgical management, and all aspects of EEG and intraoperative monitoring. Her research interest is in the molecular mechanisms of drug-resistent epilepsy and status epilepticus.
	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.
	Ramzan, Muhammad Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Ramzan is a general clinical neurologist with special interests in neurophysiology, electrodiagnosis, neuromuscular disease, cerebrovascular disease 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
	Salisbury, Elisabeth
	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 and neuromuscular diseases.
	Sundar, Banu Instructor in Neurology
	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.
	Tiwari, Ashutosh Dr. Tiwari is currently an Adjunct Research Professor at the UMass Medical School and Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI. His research interest is in the area of 'Protein Misfolding Diseases' with special focus on Neurodegenerative diseases.
	Vydrin, Mikhail Assistant Professor of Neurology Dr. Vydrin is a general clinical neurologist with special interests in memory impairment, insomnia, geriatric neurology and psychosomatic disorders.

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