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Neuroimmunology and MS Fellowship Faculty Team

The Neuroimmunology education team teaches a full range of disease-modifying treatment options while devoting significant attention to personalized symptom management. Our program is designed to drive the development of new therapies, discovery, and validation of biomarkers of disease activity and the prognosis and therapeutic response.

As an MS Center of Excellence,
patients experience comprehensive care
and can participate in clinical trials,
investigator-initiated studies, and
translational/ bench collaborations with
other research labs at UMASS, other MS
Centers, both nationally and
internationally.

Our faculty

The Neuroimmunology education team teaches a full range of disease-modifying treatment options while devoting significant attention to personalized symptom management.

As a MS Center of Excellence, our patients experience comprehensive care and can participate in clinical trials, investigator-initiated studies, and translational/ bench collaborations with other research labs at UMASS, other MS Centers, both nationally and internationally.

Our program is designed to drive the development of new therapies, discovery, and validation of biomarkers of disease activity and the prognosis and therapeutic response.

Idanis Berrios-Morales, MD, Assistant Professor
Director of Neuroimmunology Fellowship Program
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Education:
- fellowship training in Neuroimmunology at UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
- residency training at UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
- medical school, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Rio Piedras, PR

Carolina Ionete, MD, PhD, Professor
Director of Neuroimmunology and MS Center
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Education:
- fellowship training in Neuroimmunology at UMass Chan Medical School
- residency training in American Neurology at UNMC/Creighton University Medical Center
- medical school, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Raffaella Umeton, MD, Assistant Professor
Director of the Headache Center
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Education:
- fellowship training in Neuroimmunology at UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
- residency training in Neurology at UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA
- medical school, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Roberto Bomprezzi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Associate Clinical Director
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Education:
- fellowship training in Neuroimmunology at Barrow Neurological Institute
- residency training in Neurology at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ
- medical school, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, RM, Italy

Christopher Hemond, MD, Associate Professor
Associate Research Director of Neuroimmunology and MS Center
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Education:
- fellowship training in Neuroimmunology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, MS Center, Boston, MA
- residency training in Neurology at the Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- medical school, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Fellows and Alumni:

July 2023 - June 2024
Mustafa Al Gburi, from Tufts University

July 2022 - June 2023
Lily Yausheva

July 2021 - June 2022
Maria Mazzola was our graduating fellow in June 2022. She was the recipient of an NMSS Clinical Institutional Training Award. She trained in Neurology at Tufts University Medical Center. She joined the MS Center at Beth Israel Lahey Health in Burlington, Massachusetts. She has a faculty appointment, and she is a Co-Director of the Neurology Residency Program.

July 2020 - June 2021
Dalia Abou-Zeki was our graduating fellow in June 2021. She was the recipient of an NMSS Clinical Institutional Training Award. She trained in Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She is the Director of the MS Center at Atrium Health Neuroscience Institute of Neurology in Charlotte North Carolina, and she has a faculty position at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

July 2019 - June 2020
Raffaella Umeton was our graduating fellow in June 2020. She was a recipient of an NMSS Clinical Institutional Training Award. She trained in Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She has dual sub specializations training in Neuroimmunology/MS and Headache disorders. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and the Director of the Headache Clinic created inside of MS Center. She has been a faculty member of UMASS MS Center and provided training to MS Fellows at UMass MS Center since 2020.Dr. Umeton is an active member of the NMSS New England Chapter.

July 2016 - June 2017
Evdokia Eleftheriou was our graduating fellow in June 2017. She was a recipient of an NMSS Clinical Institutional Training Award. She trained in Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She is an established MS Specialist at the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Maine Medical Partners Neurology in Scarborough, Maine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is an active member of the Greater New England Chapter of NMSS, Partners of MS Care and Centers of Comprehensive Care.

July 2015 - June 2017
Idanis Berrios Morales, M.D. was our graduating fellow in June 2017. She was a recipient of an NMSS Clinical Institutional Training Award. She trained in Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where she serves as Co-Director of the UMASS MS Fellowship and Co-leader of the education track committee for the Neurology Residency. She has been a faculty member of UMASS MS Center and provided training to multiple MS Fellows at UMass MS Center since 2017. She has been also involved in multiple patient education activities with the NMSS-Great New England Chapter.

July 2010 - June 2011
Jonathan Cahill, M.D. was our graduating fellow in June 2011. He was a recipient of an NMSS Clinical Fellowship Award. He is currently an Associate Professor of Neurology, faculty member of the Brown University MS Center and Program Director of the Neurology Residency at Brown University Medical Center. He has been actively involved with the MS Society serving as a Board of Trustee in the NMSS -Great New England Chapter.

July 2010 - June 2011
Mac McLaughlin, M.D. was our graduating fellow in June 2011. He was a recipient of an NMSS Clinical Fellowship Awards. After completing his fellowship, he returned home to Nebraska where he is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and a faculty member of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

August 2008 - August 2009
Biljana Beretich, M.D. was our graduating fellow in August 2009. She trained in Neurology at the University of New Mexico. She was a recipient of an NMSS Clinical Fellowship Award. After completing her MS Fellowship, she established an MS specialty practice in Portland, ME, and is an active member of the Greater New England Chapter of NMSS, Partners of MS Care, and Centers of Comprehensive Care. She is the Director of the MS Clinic at Scarborough, Maine, affiliated with Maine Medical Center.

August 2007 - August 2008
David E. Jones, MD was our graduating fellow in August 2008. He is fellowship trained as an MS-neurologist. He completed medical school at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, before moving to UMass Chan Medical School for his residency in neurology. David E. Jones, MD neuro-immunology fellowship was funded by the National MS Society. After completing the fellowship, he worked at Lehigh Valley Health Network for four years as the director of the MS Center of Lehigh Valley. In 2012, David Jones, MD joined the faculty at the University of Virginia Health Systems as an assistant professor of neurology. In 2012-2013, he was vice-chair of the MS Section of the AAN, American Academy of Neurology. He became the elected chair of the MS Section in 2014. David Jones, MD, was the director of Clinical Operations for the James Q. Miller MS Clinic in UVa. He is on the Medical Advisory Board of the MS Foundation, and is a program consultant for Can Do MS. HE is a member of the MS Coalition Emerging Therapies Collaborative.

August 2006 - August 2007
Carolina Ionete, MD, Ph.D. was our graduating fellow in August 2007. Currently, Carolina Ionete, MD, PhD, is a professor of neurology and the director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center. She trained in neurology and served as an assistant professor at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania from 1994-2002. She graduated with a PhD in neurovirology in 2002. She completed American Neurology Training at UNMC/Creighton University Medical Center followed by an MS/Neuroimmunology fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 2007. She joined the UMASS Neurology and MS Center as Assistant Professor in 2007.