Ayshe Ana Beesen, MD, Associate Professor
Program Director, Neurocritical Care / NeuroICU Fellowship Program
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Education:
- fellowship training in Neurocritical Care at Cedar Sinai School of Medicine, NY
- residency training in Neurology at UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
- medical school, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Raphael A. Carandang, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Anesthesiology and Surgery
Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Neurology
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Education:
- fellowship training in vascular neurology at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH
- fellowship training in Neurocritical Care at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital / Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA.
- residency training in Neurology at Boston University Medical School/ Boston Medical Center, Boston MA. Internship in Internal Medicine at New York Medical College / Metropolitan Hospital, NY.
- residency training in Internal Medicine at Cardinal Santos Medical Center, San Juan, MM, Philippines
- medical school, University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Metro Manila, Philippines

Wiley Hall, MD, Assistant Professor
Director of Neurocritical Care / Co-Director 2 Lakeside / Neurotrauma ICU
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Education:
- fellowship training in neurocritical care at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, at Barnes Jewish Hospital.
- residency training at MCP Hahnemann in Philadelphia, what is now Drexel School of Medicine.
- medical school, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Veronica Peschansky, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor
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Education:
- fellowship training in neurocritical care at New York Presbyterian/Columbia and Cornell in New York, NY
- residency training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
- medical school, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami FL

Christine Eckhardt MD, MS, Assistant Professor
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Christine Eckhardt, MD, MS, assistant professor of neurology, in the Neurocritical Care / NeuroICU Division in the Department of Neurology. She completed undergraduate and medical school at Harvard, and a neurology residency and neurocritical care fellowship at Mass General Hospital Brigham. 

Dr. Eckhardt’s research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence and quantitative EEG to automate detection of encephalopathy in various disease states, such as neurotoxicity from CAR-T cell therapy. Clinically, she is interested in EEG and multimodality monitoring in the NeuroICU among patients with encephalopathy, traumatic brain injury and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Dr. Eckhardt shares, “I have a longstanding interest in neuroscience since college and was fortunate to rotate in the NeuroICU as a third-year medical student. I found the acuity, team dynamics, patient interactions and physiology fascinating, and the opportunity to combine my clinical and research interests exciting.” 

Hena Waseem, MD, MPh, Assistant Professor, board-certified in neurology, neurocritical care, and preventative medicine.

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Originally from Florida, Dr. Waseem has lived mostly in the New England area for the last 10 years. After undergraduate and medical school in Florida, she completed her neurology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She remained there to complete a Leadership and Preventive Medicine Fellowship while obtaining her master's in public health from The Dartmouth Institute. During that time, she collaborated with the NH DHHS in the emergency COVID-19 response and also worked as an instructor at The Dartmouth Institute. She is both board-certified in neurology and preventive medicine. 

Dr. Waseem’s research focuses on quantitative and qualitative healthcare systems improvement, implementation science, with the goal of improvement of the patient/family experience, medical trainee experience, and standards of care for the neurologically critically ill. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach, her interests focus on improving shared decision making during the critical illness phase in diverse population groups. She hopes to use this to effect positive change at all levels of the field, from patient- and hospital-level initiatives to global public health practices, especially in low-income country settings. 

Dr. Waseem shares, “I’ve always been interested in areas of multi-disciplinary teamwork. I find the neurocritical care unit to be a mixture of multiple specialties, including critical care illness, neurological diseases, both medical and surgical, as well as an area where shared decision making is critical and can profoundly affect patient outcomes.” 

When she is not treating patients, she enjoys spending time with her family and two cats, reading, and travelling. 

John Dorfman, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery 
Interim Chief, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
Trauma Medical Director
Specialty: Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
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Susanne Muehlschlegel, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Neurology at UMass Chan & Professor of Neurology, Anesthesiology and Surgery, John Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
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Education:
- fellowship training in vascular neurology and neurocritical care at Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital/ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
- residency training in neurology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
- medical school, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany