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Adult & Child Neurology Faculty Directory

Andrea Bozoki, MD

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
Nina Browner

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
Vinay Chaudhry, MD

Vinay Chaudhry, MD

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

Irena Dujmovic Basuroski, MD, PhD

  • Division Chief - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
  • Program Director - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Fellowship
  • Associate Professor - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
Gwenn Garden, MD, PhD

Gwenn A. Garden, MD, PhD

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

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

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
Winnie Lau, MD

Winnie Lau, MD

  • Program Director - Adult Neurology Residency
  • Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery – Neurocritical Care
Lynn Cecilia Liu, MD

Lynn Liu, MD

  • Division Chief - Epilepsy
  • Professor - Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Medical Director of EEG Lab
Daniel Roque, MD

Daniel Roque, MD

  • Director - UNC Movement Disorders Neuromodulation Program
  • Associate Professor - Movement Disorders
  • Vice Chair - Ambulatory Care Programs
Clio Rubinos, MD

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
Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD

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
Claudia Testa, MD, PhD

Claudia M. Testa, MD, PhD

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

Nathan A. Walker, MD

  • Program Director - Sleep Medicine Fellowship
  • Assistant Professor - Sleep Medicine, Memory and Cognitive Disorders
Jorge L. Almodóvar-Suárez, MD

Jorge L. Almodóvar-Suárez, MD

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

Varina Boerwinkle, MD

  • Division Chief – Child Neurology
  • Professor – Child Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurosurgery
Yael Shiloh-Malawsky, MD

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

Suzette LaRoche, MD

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

Nina Browner, MD

Dr. Browner has extensive training in movement disorders under the tutelage of Dr. Stanley Fahn. For the past fifteen years, Dr. Browner is seeing exclusively movement disorder patients at the Neurology Department of University of North Carolina (UNC). Since becoming Director of the Movement Disorders Clinic at UNC (MDC UNC), Dr. Browner and colleagues developed wide clinical services for patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other movement disorders. They have provide comprehensive interdisciplinary care for patients with idiopathic PD across the full spectrum of patient issues, including motor, non – motor and cognitive symptoms. Currently they see 2,200 unique patients with idiopathic PD per year. With her leadership our center secured designation as the Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence, one of 43 such center in the United States. Through her clinical research career, she successfully collaborated with other researchers, and produced several peer-reviewed publications from each project.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/nina-browner-md/

 

Jamie Capal, MD

Jamie K. Capal, MD

Dr. Capal is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of North Carolina with a joint appointment in the Department of Neurology appointment and the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD). Dr. Capal is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the CIDD Clinical Trials Program. Her clinical and research focus is in neurogenetic conditions resulting in neurodevelopmental disabilities across the lifespan, including Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and Angelman Syndrome, and developing clinical trials to identify, characterize, and develop preventative, disease modifying treatments.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/jamie-k-capal-md/

 

Jamie Capal, MD

Jamie K. Capal, MD

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

Diana M. Cejas, MD, MPH

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

Todd J. Cohen, PhD

Research Mission: To identify the pathogenic mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease. Although distinct, many of these diseases share common underlying pathogenic mechanisms.  We seek to uncover the molecular pathways that promote protein aggregation and the formation of amyloid deposits that cause neurodegeneration and cognitive impairments.

Lab Website: http://tcohenlab.web.unc.edu/

Monica Diaz, MD, MS

Monica Maria Diaz, M.D., M.S.

Dr. Diaz's clinical interests include Multiple sclerosis, transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica, neurosarcoidosis, viral or antibody-mediated encephalitis, HIV-related neurological complications, neurocysticercosis, post-COVID-19 neurological complications. Dr. Diaz is also the co-director of a bilateral neurology resident rotation between UNC and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/monica-maria-diaz-m-d-m-s/

Monica Diaz, MD, MS

Monica Maria Diaz, MD, MS

  • Assistant Professor - Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
  • Co-Director - Global Health Neurology Elective Rotation
Irena Dujmovic Basuroski, MD

Irena Dujmovic Basuroski, MD, PhD

Dr. Dujmovic Basuroski's clinical interests include multiple sclerosis (MS), neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), myelin oligodendrocyte antibody associated disease (MOGAD), transverse myelitis (TM), optic neuritis, neurosarcoidosis, autoimmune encephalitis, neurological complications of systemic connective tissue diseases, and other immune-mediated diseases of the central nervous system (CNS). At UNC, she is currently MS/Neuroimmunology Division Chief and MS/Neuroimmunology Fellowship Program Director. Under her leadership, UNC MS/Division has been recognized by the National MS Society as the Center for Comprehensive MS Care and we have established The Bodford Family Transverse Myelitis Center- one of few centers in USA dedicated to comprehensive care of people with TM.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/irena-dujmovic-basuroski-md-phd/

Mary C. Edmondson, MD

Mary C. Edmondson, MD

  • Associate Director - UNC Huntington Disease Program
  • Assistant Clinical Professor - Neurology
Jane Fan, MD

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
Gwenn Garden, MD, PhD

Gwenn A. Garden, MD, PhD

Dr. Garden’s Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research includes studies of the regulation of the inflammatory response in AD, as well as pathogenic molecular cascades contributing to neuronal degeneration in AD. She aims to collaborate with other researchers in order to translate her laboratory findings into the setting of research using human tissues, human stem cells, human serum and CSF samples, and potentially human patients.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/garden-gwenn/

Matt Harris

Matt Harris, PhD

I have a broad background in psychology and previous work as a statistician, with specific training in neuropsychology. I now work as a clinical neuropsychologist and have a strong background in clinical work, while staying involved in some research, mainly clinical in nature. I have particular interest in cognitive functioning, especially with aspects of validity of testing, cognition in epilepsy, epilepsy surgery and other types of neurosurgery, and dementia.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/matt-harris-phd-neuropsychologist/

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Candice Henderson

  • Clinical Research Manager - Neuroscience Clinical Trials Unit (NCTU)
  • Research Budget Officer - Neuroscience Clinical Trials Unit (NCTU)
James F. Howard, Jr., MD

James F. Howard Jr., MD

Dr. Howard's career has been within the academic world of neuromuscular disease and electrodiagnostic medicine. His focus is in disorders of neuromuscular transmission including diagnosis, management and their immune abnormalities with the goal of bringing novel therapeutic agents to the bedside. Most recently, Dr. Howard has been involved in the clinical trials development of complement and FcRn inhibitors in the treatment of autoimmune myasthenia gravis leading to the first 3 drugs ever approved by the FDA for this disease. He maintain extensive clinical and physiological data on nearly 1450 patients with myasthenia gravis.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/james-f-howard-jr-md/

Senyene Hunter, MD, PhD

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

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

Dr. Hwang has developed a nationally recognized, original clinical research portfolio centered upon two major neuroscience ICU themes: (1) the varying accuracy and thought processes of clinicians when predicting functional outcomes of patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI); and (2) the decision-making and psychosocial support of family members of SABI patients who lack capacity, particularly those families who are making difficult goals-of-care decisions. He has a strong track record of both leading and participating in successful multicenter collaborative research studies on these topics. To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 100 academic articles centered around these themes, more than 40 of which are original research publications. Over the past 10 years, he has personally delivered nearly 60 national and international invited lectures and web-based talks related to his research work and has been featured as a plenary speaker at the International Stroke Conference (ISC), the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) Annual Meeting, and the International Neuropalliative Care Society (INPCS) Annual Meeting.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/david-y-hwang-md-faan-fccm-fncs/

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Kristopher Karvelas, MD

Dr. Karvelas’ clinical focus is on neuromusculoskeletal care and improving the daily function of adults throughout their lives. Through the use of diagnostic ultrasound and electrodiagnostics, Dr. Karvelas both evaluates and treats those with complicated musculoskeletal and neuromuscular disorders. His research focuses on the use of ultrasound, electrodiagnostics, medical education, quality improvement and integrative approaches to the management of pain.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/kristopher-karvelas-md/

Weili Lin, PhD

Weili Lin, PhD

Dr. Lin's research interests focus on several areas, including the development of novel imaging methods for the study of early brain development, neurodegenerative diseases, and neurological disorders, the development and applications of deep-learning approaches for obtaining quantitative measures of brain structures as well as to accelerate imaging acquisition time, and the applications of PET/MR approaches in cancers and neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, Dr. Lin has extensive knowledge of conducting non-sedated pediatric imaging for children 0 – 10 years old.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/weili-lin-ph-d/

Weili Lin, PhD

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
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Paul Manis, PhD

Dr. Manis is interested in the cellular and network mechanisms of sensory information processing in the central nervous system, with an emphasis on the neural substrates for hearing. Dr. Manis study functional network organization, synaptic function, the roles of ion channels and cellular excitability, and short and long-term synaptic plasticity, in the auditory brainstem and auditory cortex. Experimentally, Dr. Manis use patch clamp methods in brain slices, optogenetics and laser scanning photostimulation, multiphoton imaging, and computational neuroscience (modeling), in normal and transgenic mouse models. The lab also has collaborative projects related to schizophrenia (prefrontal cortex; Dr. Patricia Maness, UNC) and connectomics (cochlear nucleus and MNTB; Dr. George Spirou, WVU).

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/manis-paul-b/

Rick Meeker, PhD

Rick B. Meeker, PhD

Dr. Meeker’s research is focused on the mechanisms of HIV neuropathogenesis and the development of therapeutic strategies for the treatment of neuroinflammation. Inflammatory changes within the brain caused by the viral infection initiate a toxic cascade that disrupts normal neural function and can eventually lead to neuronal death. To explore the mechanisms responsible for this damage, we investigate changes in calcium homeostasis, glutamate receptor function and inflammatory responses in primary neuronal, microglial and macrophage cultures. New therapeutic approaches targeted to signal transduction pathways and calcium regulation that protect the neurons and reduce inflammation are under investigation.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/meeker-rick/

 

Casey Olm-Shipman, MD, MS

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
Yasmeen Rauf, MD

Yasmeen Rauf, MD

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • Interim Division Chief - ​Neuro-Oncology
Heidi Roth, MD

Heidi Roth, MD

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

Clio Rubinos, MD, MS

Dr. Rubinos is a neurologist with dual training in Epilepsy and Neurocritical care. Dr. Rubinos research interest is ICU-EEG, status epilepticus, and epileptogenic after brain injury (biomarkers, management, and patient-related outcomes), bridging both specialties. However, she has a passion for global health, and I am working in global health neurology (ICU-EEG and Neurocritical care).

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/clio-rubinos-md-ms-2/

Matthew Field Sharrock, MD

Matthew Field Sharrock, MD

Dr. Sharrock works at the confluence of acute neurological injury, clinical informatics and clinical trials. His research looks at utilizing informatics processes and tools to make clinical trials in patients with acute neurological conditions more effective and efficient. Dr. Sharrock has most recently led the development of open-source cloud computing architectures for clinical trial enrollment, utilized machine learning algorithms to identify patients eligible for clinical trials based on neuroimaging biomarkers and am actively involved in developing enhanced data integration and signal processing capabilities in the ICU to facilitate the translation of novel tools to the ICU population.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/matthew-sharrock-md/

Tamara Strohm, MD

Tamara Strohm, MD

  • Associate Program Director - Neurocritical Care Fellowship
  • Assistant professor - Neurocritical Care
Steven Trau, MD

Steven P. Trau, MD

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

Rebecca Traub, MD

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

Angela Wabulya, MBChB

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

Brandon Waters, MD

Clinical Interests: refractory epilepsy management, including complex pharmacotherapy and epilepsy surgery. Neuromodulation. Pre-surgical evaluations for epilepsy surgery. Neuropsychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy. Intraoperative Neuromonitoring

Research Interests: Pathologic neuronal networks in epilepsy. Psychiatric & neuropsychological comorbidities in epilepsy. Outcomes in epilepsy surgery, including neuropsychological. Epileptogenesis.

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/brandon-waters-md/

Dena Little, MD

Dena Williams, DO

  • Assistant Professor - Stroke and Vascular Neurology, General Neurology
  • Associate Program Director - Adult Neurology Residency Program
Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD

Yen-Yu Ian Shih, PhD

The Center for Animal MRI (CAMRI) focuses on combining multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with cutting edge neuroscience tools to study neural circuitry and neurovascular coupling in rodent models. Their service core under the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center provides a wide variety of small animal MRI services to investigators within and outside UNC.

Lab Website: http://camri.org/

Faculty Collaboration Database: https://www.med.unc.edu/oor/faculty-database/faculty-databases/ian-shih-phd/