Faculty by Division

Child Neurology

Varina Boerwinkle, MD

• Division Chief – Child Neurology
• Professor – Child Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurosurgery

Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD

• Program Director - Child Neurology Residency
• Associate Professor - Child Neurology and Epilepsy
• UNC Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGI) - Co-founder and Clinical Core Leader

Katelyn Bricker, MD

• Assistant Professor –  Sleep Medicine, and Child Neurology

Jordan Broman-Fulks, MD

• Assistant Professor - Child Neurology
• Child Neurology Residency Leadership Panel 

Jamie K. Capal, MD

• Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology - Child Neurology, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
• Carolina Institute of Developmental Disabilities (CIDD)

Diana M. Cejas, MD, MPH

• Assistant Professor - Child Neurology
• Dual appointment with the Carolina Institute of Developmental Disabilities

Zheng (Jane) Fan, MD

• Co-Division Chief - Precision Medicine and Neurogenetics
• Professor of Neurology - Child Neurology, Pediatric Sleep Medicine, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disorders, Clinical Genetics
• Medical Director - Sleep Laboratory

Robert S. Greenwood, MD

• Professor - Child Neurology

Senyene E. Hunter, MD, PhD

• Assistant Professor - Child Neurology and Epilepsy
• Child Neurology Residency Leadership Panel 
• UNC Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative – Co-founder and Research Core Leader

Chon Lee, MD

• Associate Professor, Child Neurology and Epilepsy

Casey Olm-Shipman, MD, MS

• Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery - Neurocritical Care, Child Neurology
• Vice Chair, Quality Improvement
• Associate Director, UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement
• Medical Director UNC Medical Center Neurosciences ICU

Steven P. Trau, MD

• Director, UNC Clinic for Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders
• Medical Director, UNC Child Neurology Clinic
• Assistant Professor - Child Neurology

Qian-Zhou (JoJo) Yang, MD

• Assistant Professor - Child Neurology and Epilepsy
• Director - Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

Epilepsy

Lynn Liu, MD

• Division Chief - Epilepsy
• Professor - Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
• Medical Director of EEG Lab

Clio Rubinos, MD, MS

• Program Director - Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program
• Assistant Professor - Neurocritical Care and Epilepsy
• Director - Post-acute Symptomatic (PASS) Clinic
• Co-Director - Global Health Neurology Elective Rotation

Varina Boerwinkle, MD

• Division Chief – Child Neurology
• Professor – Child Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurosurgery

Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD

• Program Director - Child Neurology Residency
• Associate Professor - Child Neurology and Epilepsy
• UNC Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative (ENGI) - Co-founder and Clinical Core Leader

Suzette LaRoche, MD

• Professor - Neurology, Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
• Vice Chair of Community Partnership

Albert Hinn, MD

• Professor - Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
  

Senyene E. Hunter, MD, PhD

• Assistant Professor - Child Neurology and Epilepsy
• Child Neurology Residency Leadership Panel 
• UNC Epilepsy Neurogenetics Initiative – Co-founder and Research Core Leader

Chon Lee, MD

• Associate Professor, Child Neurology and Epilepsy

Atif Tahir Sheikh, MD

• Assistant Professor - Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology

Bradley V. Vaughn, MD

• Professor - Sleep Medicine and Epilepsy

Angela Wabulya, MBChB

• Associate Professor - Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
• EMU Medical Director
• Program Director - Epilepsy Fellowship
• Vice Chair, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Brandon L. Waters, MD

• Assistant Professor - Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology

Qian-Zhou (JoJo) Yang, MD

• Assistant Professor - Child Neurology and Epilepsy
• Director - Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

General Neurology and Headache

Irena Dujmovic Basuroski, MD, PhD

• Division Chief - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
• Program Director - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Fellowship
• Associate Professor - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology

Daniel Roque, MD

• Director - UNC Movement Disorders Neuromodulation Program
• Associate Professor - Movement Disorders
• Vice Chair - Ambulatory Care Programs

Jorge L. Almodóvar-Suárez, MD

• Division Chief, General Neurology & Headache Disorders
• Associate Professor - General Neurology, Neuromuscular Disorders
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Clinic Director

Gary W. Jay, MD, FAAPM, FACFEI

• Professor - Headache

Anahit C. Mehrabyan, MD

• Assistant Professor - Neuromuscular Disorders

Rebecca Traub, MD

• Associate Professor - Neuromuscular Disorders, General Neurology
• Program Director - Neuromuscular Fellowship

Michael Wang, MD

• Associate Professor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology

Dena Williams, DO

• Assistant Professor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology, General Neurology
• Associate Program Director - Adult Neurology Residency Program

Memory/Cognitive Disorders

Andrea Bozoki, MD

• Division Chief - Memory and Cognitive Disorders
• Professor - Memory and Cognitive Disorders
• Outreach and Engagement Core Leader - Duke-UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Gwenn A. Garden, MD, PhD

• Chair - Department of Neurology
• Professor - Memory and Cognitive Disorders
• Co-Director – Duke-UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

Nathan A. Walker, MD

• Program Director - Sleep Medicine Fellowship
• Assistant Professor - Sleep Medicine, Memory and Cognitive Disorders

Todd J. Cohen, PhD

• Associate Professor - Neuroscience Research

Heidi Roth, MD

• Associate Professor - Sleep Medicine, Memory and Cognitive Disorders
• Associate Clinical Core Leader - Duke-UNC Alzheimer's Disease Collaborative

Movement Disorders

Nina M. Browner, MD

• Chief, Division of Movement Disorders
• The Bryson Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Movement Disorders
• Program Director - Movement Disorders Fellowship
• Vice Chair, Education
• Director - Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence

Daniel Roque, MD

• Director - UNC Movement Disorders Neuromodulation Program
• Associate Professor - Movement Disorders
• Vice Chair - Ambulatory Care Programs

Claudia M. Testa, MD, PhD

• Division Chief - Precision Medicine and Neurogenetics
• Professor of Neurology - Movement disorders, Adult Neurogenetics
• Founding Director - UNC Huntington Disease Program

Hokuto Morita, MD, MA

• Assistant Professor of Neurology, Movement Disorders

Richard Murrow, MD

• Joseph and Hannah Baggett Distinguished Professor, Movement Disorders

Miriam Sklerov, MD, MS

• Assistant Professor - Movement Disorders

John Younce, MD

• Assistant Professor – Movement Disorders

Multiple Sclerosis/Neuroimmunology

Irena Dujmovic Basuroski, MD, PhD

• Division Chief - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
• Program Director - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Fellowship
• Associate Professor - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology

Monica Maria Diaz, MD, MS

• Assistant Professor - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
• Co-Director - Global Health Neurology Elective Rotation

Neurocritical Care

David Y. Hwang, MD, FAAN, FCCM, FNCS

• Division Chief – Neurocritical Care
• Professor – Neurocritical Care

Winnie Lau, MD

• Program Director - Adult Neurology Residency
• Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery – Neurocritical Care

Clio Rubinos, MD, MS

• Program Director - Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program
• Assistant Professor - Neurocritical Care and Epilepsy
• Director - Post-acute Symptomatic (PASS) Clinic
• Co-Director - Global Health Neurology Elective Rotation

Julia Carlson, MD

• Assistant Professor – Neurocritical Care

Casey Olm-Shipman, MD, MS

• Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery - Neurocritical Care, Child Neurology
• Vice Chair, Quality Improvement
• Associate Director, UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement
• Medical Director UNC Medical Center Neurosciences ICU

Matthew Field Sharrock, MD

• Assistant Professor - Neurocritical Care
• Medical Director UNC Rex Neurosciences ICU

Tamara Strohm, MD

• Associate Program Director - Neurocritical Care Fellowship
• Assistant professor - Neurocritical Care

Neuromuscular Disorders

Vinay Chaudhry, MD

• Chief, Division of Neuromuscular Disorders
• James F. Howard Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neuromuscular Diseases
• Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs

Jorge L. Almodóvar-Suárez, MD

• Division Chief, General Neurology & Headache Disorders
• Associate Professor - General Neurology, Neuromuscular Disorders
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Clinic Director

Eric Creed, MD

• Assistant Professor – Neuromuscular

Zheng (Jane) Fan, MD

• Co-Division Chief - Precision Medicine and Neurogenetics
• Professor of Neurology - Child Neurology, Pediatric Sleep Medicine, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disorders, Clinical Genetics
• Medical Director - Sleep Laboratory

Deborah F. Gelinas, MD

• Associate Professor - Neuromuscular Disorders

James F. Howard Jr., MD

• Distinguished Professor of Neuromuscular Disease
• Professor of Neurology, Medicine & Allied Health

Anahit C. Mehrabyan, MD

• Assistant Professor - Neuromuscular Disorders

Miriam Sklerov, MD, MS

• Assistant Professor - Movement Disorders

Rebecca Traub, MD

• Associate Professor - Neuromuscular Disorders, General Neurology
• Program Director - Neuromuscular Fellowship

Neuroscience Research

Gwenn A. Garden, MD, PhD

• Chair - Department of Neurology
• Professor - Memory and Cognitive Disorders
• Co-Director – Duke-UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD

• Vice Chair, Research
• Associate Director, Biomedical Research Imaging Center
• Associate Professor of Neurology - Neuroscience Research
• Director, Center for Animal MRI

Todd J. Cohen, PhD

• Associate Professor - Neuroscience Research

Rick Meeker, PhD

• Professor of Neurology - Neuroscience Research

Precision Medicine and Neurogenetics

Claudia M. Testa, MD, PhD

• Division Chief - Precision Medicine and Neurogenetics
• Professor of Neurology - Movement disorders, Adult Neurogenetics
• Founding Director - UNC Huntington Disease Program

Mary C. Edmondson, MD

• Associate Director - UNC Huntington Disease Program
• Assistant Clinical Professor - Neurology

Jenna Lea, MS, CGC

• Assistant Professor of Neurology - Neurogenetics
• Certified Genetic Counselor

Hailey Segall, MS, CGC

• Assistant Professor of Neurology - Neurogenetics
• Certified Genetic Counselor

Radiology

Weili Lin, PhD

• Dixie Lee Boney Soo Distinguished Professor, Neurological Medicine
• Director of BRIC
• Vice Chair of Research, Department of Radiology
• Departments of Neurology, Radiology, Biomedical Engineering and School of Pharmacy

Sleep

Nathan A. Walker, MD

• Program Director - Sleep Medicine Fellowship
• Assistant Professor - Sleep Medicine, Memory and Cognitive Disorders

Katelyn Bricker, MD

• Assistant Professor –  Sleep Medicine, and Child Neurology

Zheng (Jane) Fan, MD

• Co-Division Chief - Precision Medicine and Neurogenetics
• Professor of Neurology - Child Neurology, Pediatric Sleep Medicine, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disorders, Clinical Genetics
• Medical Director - Sleep Laboratory

Heidi Roth, MD

• Associate Professor - Sleep Medicine, Memory and Cognitive Disorders
• Associate Clinical Core Leader - Duke-UNC Alzheimer's Disease Collaborative

Bradley V. Vaughn, MD

• Professor - Sleep Medicine and Epilepsy

Stroke

James Pham Ho, MD

• Program Director - Stroke and Vascular Neurology Fellowship
• Assistant Professor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology
• Adjunct Professor - Neurointerventional Radiology, Neurosurgery

David Y. Huang, MD, PhD

• Vascular Neurologist and Director, UNC Health Care Comprehensive Stroke Center
• Clinical Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
• Chief, Division of Stroke and Vascular Neurology, UNC Department of Neurology
• Director, UNC Stroke Trials Unit
• Vice Chair, Clinical Operations

Souvik Sen, MD

• Adjunct Associate Professor

Michael Wang, MD

• Associate Professor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology

Dena Williams, DO

• Assistant Professor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology, General Neurology
• Associate Program Director - Adult Neurology Residency Program

Susan Wilson, DNP, RN, MSN, ANP-C

• Associate Professor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology
• Director, Neurosciences Clinical Trials Unit
• Adult Nurse Practitioner