Scholarship Recipients

Lucie Y. Ahn
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Sanaea Bhagwagar
State University of New York
Albany, NY

Rebecca Baron
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Bijoya Basu
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Kelby W. Brown, Jr., MD
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Santiago Clocchiatti-Tuozzo
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Michael Covell
Georgetown University
Kensington, MD

Nicholas W. DeKorver, MD, PhD
Washington University St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

Mark Durham, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, TX

Mahboubeh Fereidan Esfahni, MD
University of Texas
Austin, TX

Jordan Galbraith
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Leidys Gutierrez-Martinez, MD, MSc
Massachusetts General Hospital
Somerville, MA

Akansha Jain
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Mikael Guzman Karlsson, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX

Vanessa Ha, MD, PhD
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
Canada

Yoji Hoshina, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Soonmyung Hwang
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Hannah Kelly
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH

Riley Kessler, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Charalampia Koutsioumpa, MD, PhD
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Jesse Levine, MD, PhD
Baylor
Houston, TX

Jimmy Li, MD
University of Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, QC
Canada

Alexis Lorio
University of Texas
San Antonio, TX

Laura McGarry, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Shuait Nair
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Cameron Owens, MS
University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, OK

Jack Reves
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Jackson Roberts
Columbia University
New York, NY

Kasra Sarhadi, MD, MPH
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

James Shay, MD
University of Missouri – Kansas City
Kansas City, MO

Kristen Sportiello
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Rui Tang
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX

Si Jie (Jessica) Tang
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA

Jude Tunyi
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Sanam Zarei, MD
Children's National Medical Center
Washington, DC

Sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology International Subcommittee and supported in part by Genentech.

Maria Jimena Aleman, MD
Universidad Francisco Marroquin
Guatemala

Surabhi Garg, MBBS, MD, DrNB
St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences
Bengaluru
India

Antonino Giordano, MD
IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milan
Italy

Lina Paola Quintero Giraldo, MD
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Bogotá
Colombia

Salih Boushra Hamza, MBBS
Ziryab Research Group
Khartoum
Sudan

Haris Iqbal, MBBS, BSc
Mayo Hospital Lahore
Khushab
Pakistan

Amado Jimenez-Ruiz, MD
Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde
Guadalajara
Mexico

Yugant Khand, MD
Nepalese Army Institute of Health Science
Kathmandu
Nepal

Mostafa M. Meshref, MD
Al-Azhar University for Boys, Cairo
Mokkattam City
Egypt

Louisa Müller-Miny, MD
University Hospital Münster
Muenster
Germany

Coolwe Namangala, MD
University Teaching Hospital
Lusaka
Zambia

Karlos Alvaro Acurio Ortiz, MD
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Cusco
Peru

Ya-Nan Ou, MD, PhD
Qingdao University
Qingdao
China (Mainland)

Francesca Palumbo Jr, MD
University of Turin
Torino
Italy

David Pellerin, MD
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
St-Denis-de-Brompton
Canada

Maria I Reyes-Mantilla, MD
Hospital Simón Bolívar
Bogota
Colombia

Jamil AbdulKadir Said, MMED
AgaKhan University Hospital Nairobi
Nairobi
Kenya

Sara Salama, MD/PhD
UCL, London & Alexandria University, Egypt
Gleem- Alexandria
Egypt

Bader Hamza Shirah, MBBS
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Jeddah
Saudi Arabi

Ritu Shree, MD, MBBS, DM
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
Chandigarh
India

S. Sidharth, MD
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi
Delhi
India

Aayesha Soni, MBBCh FcNeurol Mmed
University of Cape Town
Cape Town
South Africa

Olivier Uwishema, MD
Oli Health Magazine Organization (OHMO)
Kigali
Rwanda

ZuoTeng Wang, PhD
Qingdao Municipal Hospital
Qingdao
China (Mainland)

Maria Agustina Zarate, MD
Fundación para la Lucha de Enfermedades Neurológicas en la Infancia (FLENI)
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Ashley Vincenty-Acosta
Ponce Health Sciences University
Ponce, PR

Jeff Doralus
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, TN

Gladys Flores
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
San Juan, PR

Amelia Nicole Hidalgo
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
Las Cruces, NM

Alexandra Rose Linares
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

Sierra Lyles
Howard University College of Medicine
Washington, DC

Simosenkosi Nkomboni
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

Lisa Ramirez
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Hempstead, NY

Kristina Marie Reyes
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Johnnie Turner
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Anna Abrimian
Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine
Stratford, NJ

Shaina Anderson
Wright State University Boonshoft
Fairborn, Ohio

Alexandra Balshi
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Aisha Bosula
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Paul Boyd
George Washington and Health Science
Washington, DC

Vivian Chen
Duke University
Durham, NC

William Choi
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI

Aaron Creswell
California Northstate University
Elk Grove, CA

Kendall Curtis
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

Ashlee De Leon
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

John Demir
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL

Pooja Dhupati
University of Arizona - Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ

Justin Falk
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Jacksonville, FL

Luke Fisher
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

Kiley Gagain
Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine
Wichita, KS

Amanda Gamboa
Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
El Segundo, CA

Aryonne GenaeLink
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA

Lama Hanbali
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Ashley Harrie
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI

Erin Hendry
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Raymond Huerta
University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
San Antonio, TX

Cindy Huynh
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Athens, OH

Naomi Kass
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Jacob Kazmi
Donald and Barbara Zucker at Hofstra/Northwell
Uniondale, NY

Alyssa Kim
A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
Kirksville, MO

Amber Ligason-Tiquia
WesternU College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
Pomona, CA

Megan Lim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Champaign, IL

Cheyenne Lockwood
Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine
Meridian, ID

Sreeganesh Manoharan
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

Meaghan McConkey
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MO

Marcus Milani
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

Jaan Nandwani
Icahn at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Sanjay Neerukonda
McGovern Medical School
Houston, TX

Brooke Prysi
Lincoln Memorial University Debusk - Knoxville
Knoxville, TN

Hope Reecher
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Alicia Rocha
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI

Chandrika Sanapala
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
University Park, NM

Estevan Sandoval
University of Arizona Tucson
Tucson, AZ

Danielle Sblendorio
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

Mark Schneider
Rush Medical College
Chicago, IL

Pareena Sharma
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA

Brook Shepard
Creighton University
Omaha, NE

Ralph Shoemaker
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine- Middletown, NY
Middletown, NY

Anna Truong
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA

Ethan Wang
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Lindsay Wanner
Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Lynchburg, VA

Julie Xian
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Kangni Xiao
Loyola University
Naperville, IL

Annabelle Yang
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Alexandra Balshi
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Brookline, MA

Mara Bahri
the Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Tanmay Bangale
Baylor College of Medicine
San Antonio, Texas

Tyler Borko
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO

Eugene Cho
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, OH

Julia Cho
Harvard
Boston, MA

Annika Daya
Pennsylvania State
Hummelstown, PA

Neil Dhruva
Emory University
Decatur, GA

Samuel Eitenbichler
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY

Cameron Hill
Boston University
Boston, MA

Kara Hom
George Washington University
Washington, DC

Mio Jiang
University of California Irvine
Huntington Beach, CA

Mohammad Nisar
Augusta University
Dalton, GA

Minjal Patel
Rowan Virtua
Voorhees Township, NJ

Chelsea Rutagengwa
University of Connecticut
New Britain, MA

Anish Sethi
University of Rochester
Vadnais Heights, MN

Sami Shaikh
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Milena Sudarikov
Rowan Virtua
Cherry Hill, NJ

Johnnie Turner
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN

David Weiss
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Talha Ahmad
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Ayymen Amaar
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
Loma Linda, California

Tanmay Bangale
University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
San Antonio, Texas

Taylor Baranski
California University of Science and Medicine
Redlands, California

Emily Bossie
Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Detroit, Michigan

Samantha Brown
Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (MCASOM)- AZ
Phoenix, Arizona

Gregory Brown
Pennsylvania State University
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania

Nicholas Burt
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
Port Washington, New York

Joo Won Choi
John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

Sun Gyeong Choi
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Hanover, Maryland

Shahreen Chowdhury
Rush Medical College
Chicago, Illinois

Anshul Daga
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Delora Denney
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi

Haley Deville
University of North Texas Health Science Center- TCOM
Fort Worth, Texas

Neil Dhruva
Emory University
Decatur, Georgia

Jade Doolittle
Medical University of South Carolina
Simpsonville, South Carolina

Aizara Ermekbaeva
Tulane School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana

Danielle Feffer
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Claudia Foubert
Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine
Cary, North Carolina

Anthara Gnanakumar
George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Falls Church, Virginia

Jack Gomberg
Icahn School of Medicine
New York, New York

Anand Haran
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kansas City, Missouri

Amanda Jan
University of California Davis
Sacramento, California

Nicki Karimi-Mostowfi
Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alexis King
A.T. Still University - School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
O Fallon, Illinois

Alice Liu
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
West Chester, Pennsylvania

Lajja Majmundar
University of Texas Medical Branch
Houston, Texas

Sujal Manohar
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Christopher Miller
California Northstate University College of Medicine
Sacramento, California

Joseph Miller
Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Dublin, Ohio

Pranav Mirpuri
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
North Chicago, Illinois

Chellam Nayar
UVM Larner College of Medicine
Colchester, Vermont

Dennis Nyanyo
Harvard Medical School
Brookline, Massachusetts

Catalina O'Toole
Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine
Meridian, Idaho

Dhruv Patel
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Boyds, Maryland

Zachary Roccaforte
McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas

Jarrod Rulney
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson
Tuscon, AZ

Neha Saini
Florida State University College of Medicine
Tallahassee, Florida

Haley Schluterman
Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University
Conway, Arkansas

Alexis De Montfort Shepherd
Dell Medical School
Austin, Texas

Sarah Rebecca Stephen
Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine
East Setauket, New York

Michael Terranova
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, Illinois

Liam Townley
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska

Esme Trahair
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, North Carolina

Ariana Turk
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia

Hannah Wiest
Albany Medical College
Albany, New York

Dorothy Yam
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Poughkeepsie, New York

Lisa Young
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Joyce Zhang
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Yonkers, New York

Sofia Zoullas
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Palm Beach, Florida

Michel Abdelmasih, MD
Orlando Regional Medical Center
Orlando, FL

Daniela Riveros Acosta, MD
Icahn at Mount Sinai West
New York, NY

Alwaleed Abdulaziz S. Aljaser, MBBS
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada

Dyanet Loreta Alvarez, MD
Jackson Memorial Hospital/ University of Miami
Miami, FL

Eskedar Angamo Angamo, MD, PhD
UTHealth Houston
Houston, TX

Dhanalakshmi Angappan, MD
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR

Priyanka Atit, DO
University of South Florida Morsani
Tampa, FL

Agnes Bacopulos, MD
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, VT

Amerta Bai, MBBS, MS
University of Minnesota Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN

Arjun Balachandar, MD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Maria Silvana Barrios, MD
Mayo Clinic Florida
Jacksonville, FL

Alexander Besser, DO
Memorial Healthcare System
Miramar, FL

Lauren Bojarski, MD
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Jonathan Bundy, MD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Colby Cevering, DO
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA

Bryce Chang, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Rochester, MN

Cody Ciaramitaro, MD
Wright State University Boonshoft
Dayton, OH

Braylee Walton Collins, DO
Baylor Scott and White Medical Center
Temple, TX

Kirsten Consing, DO
University of Florida - Gainesville
Gainesville, FL

Jorey Alan Cunico, DO
San Antonio Miliary Services Health Education Consortium
San Antonio, TX

Cintia Carla Da Hora, MD
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Florida and Nemours Children's Hospital Jacksonville Florida
Jacksonville, FL

Ugur Damar, MD
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Baltimore, MD

Carlo Dangcalan, MD
Upstate University Hospita
Syracuse, NY

Mandi Ellgen, MD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Sarah Grace Engel, MD
University of Alabama Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Mikenzy Fassel, MD
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Steffani Lynn Flaherty, MD
Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook, NY

Robert Flinn, MD
Trinity Health Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, MI

Ricardo Murguia Fuentes, MD
LSU Health Shreveport
Shreveport, LA

German Alfonso Garza Garcia, MD
UTSW
Dallas, TX

Bret Jarret Gardner, MD, PhD
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM

Sukhraj Gill, MD
Geisinger Medical Center
Bloomsberg, PA

Shriya Gupta, MBBS
University of Connecticut
Hartford, CT

Ayush Gupta, MD
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY

Umair Hamid, MD
University of Illinois at Peoria
Peoria, IL

Sarah Haseen, DO
University of Toledo
Toeldo, OH

James C. Hiana, MD
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, NY

Sheetal Hegde, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Rebecca Barnes, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Huntington, WV

Rebecca T. Hsu, MD
Marshall University
Philadelphia, PA

Brendan Huang, MD
Northwell Health
Manhasset, NY

Jeongyeon Hwang, MD
Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center
Detroit, MI

Princess Amaka Ikemenogo, MD
Brown University
Providence, RI

Marissa Catherine Ilardi, MD
NYU Langone Health - Grossman
New York, NY

Nikita Jain, MD
Wake Forest University
Winston Salem, NC

Ashkan Javadzadeh, MD
Staten Island University Hospital - Lenox Hill Hospital at Northwell Health, Zucker at Hofstra
Staten Island, NY

Vaishali Kapila-Kalra, MD
George Washington University Hospital
Washington, DC

Rachna Khanna, DO
Albany Medical Center
Albany, NY

Paul Lacanienta, MD
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, OH

Vinay Bhushan Reddy Lakki, MBBS
Creighton University
Omaha, NE

Jeffrey Lambe, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Brittany Legg, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Marilhia Carolina Cornejo Leon, MD
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN

Alexandra Marie Livingston, DO
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Ashley Diana Lopez, DO
Palmetto General Hospital
Hialeah Gardens, FL

Alex Joseph Luke, MD
UMKC
Kansas City, MO

Giovanni Roy Malaty, MD
Barrow Neurological Institute
Phoenix, AZ

Narmada Mannem, MBBS
Carilion Clinic-Virginia Tech Carilion
Roanoke, VA

Olga Manouvakhova, MD
University of Southern California + Los Angeles General
Glendale, CA

Sina Marzoughi, MD
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbi
Canada

Daniel Moreno-Zambrano, MD
Larkin Community Hospital South Miami
Miami, FL

Bruno Mourao Pacheco, MD
Brown University
Providence, RI

Nicholas Ravindra Mulchan, MD
NYU Langone Health- Brooklyn
New York, NY

Evangelos Pavlos Myserlis, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Alyssa Nesbitt, MD
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

James Vinh Nguyen, MD, MEd
Mass General Brigham
Cambridge, MA

Priya Nidamanuri, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA

Sahar Noorani, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Diana Ontiveros, MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Durham, NC

Krithika Umesh Peshwe, MD
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV

Benjamin John Puccio, MD
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Newark, NJ

Kellen Quigg, MD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Sophia Raefsky, MD
UC San Diego
San Diego, CA

Roshini Saleem Raja, MD, MBBS
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY

Janice Michelle Rivera, MD
Texas Tech University
El Paso, TX

Matthew Roberts, MD
University of Texas Health San Antonio
San Antonio, TX

Katherine Roche, MD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Shashika Rodrigo, MD
Washington University at St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

Katlyn Elizabeth Roginsky, DO
University at Buffalo
Cheektowaga, NY

Juan Solano Romero, MD
Einstein Medical Cente
Philadelphia, PA

Luis Gonzalo Rueda Carrillo, MD
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, GA

Alyssa Domingue Runco, MD
Baylor University
Houston, TX

Malya Sahu, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

David J Sandness, MD
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Youssra Hany Saqr, MD
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH

Alireza Shirazian, MD
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA

Amna Amad Siddiqui, MBBS
Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, IL

Dinesh Keran Sivakolundu, MD, PhD
Yale University
East Haven, CT

Catherine Suen, MD
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Shivani Vaidya, DO
Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Washington, DC

Vijaya Lakshmi Valaparla, MD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Khushboo Verma, MBBS
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Vedang Vyas, MBBS
The University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Houston, TX

Sargun Walia, MD
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Hershey, PA

Briana Wasserstrom, DO
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Joyce Antonella Jimenez Zambrano, MD
University of North Dakota
Fargo, ND

Aaron Simon Zelikovich, MD
Weill Cornell
New York, NY