UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

NEUROLOGY FACULTY PROFILES

Geoffrey L. Ahern, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychology and Evelyn F.
McKnight Brain Institute
SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Behavioral neurology, dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral
lateralization

Ealaf Al rabia, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECAIL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Vascular neurology

Neal Baumbach, M.D. – Associate Professor of Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Headache, general neurology

Colin R. Bamford, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Neurophysiology, sleep disorders, peripheral neurology

Sudeshna Bose, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology & Pharmacy Practice and Science
SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, ion channels

Harvey W. Buchsbaum, M.D., Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: General neurology

Bruce M. Coull, M.D., Professor of Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Cerebrovascular disease, cytokines, vascular biology,
epidemiology
SPECIAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Hemostasis

Kendra Drake, M.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology & Pharmacy Practice and Science
SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Epilepsy, Stroke, epidemiology

Sankalp Gokhale, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology – Director, BUMC-Tucson

Neurology Intensive Care Unit
SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Neurology Critical Care

G. Alex Hishaw, M.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology & Psychiatry

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Behavioral Neurology, traumatic brain injury, neuropsychiatry,
dementia/Alzheimer’s disease

Holli Horak, M.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: EMG/NCS, neuromuscular, ALS and muscular dystrophy

Jain, Sejal, M.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL INTERESTS: Epilepsy, Sleep Disorders

Khan, Muhammad, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: EMG/NCS, neuromuscular

Stella “Chelsea” Kidwell, M.D., Professor of Neurology & Medical Imaging

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Vascular neurology
SPECIAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Stroke and Brain Imaging

Anita Koshy, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology, Immunobiology, Evelyn F. McKnight
Brain Institute and BIO5 Institute
SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS/RESEARCH: Infectious Diseases of the nervous system

Wendi Kulin, M.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Headache, general neurology
David M. Labiner, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Pharmacy Practice and Science; Head,
Department of Neurology
SPECIAL MEDICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Epilepsy, epidemiology

John LaWall, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology & Pharmacy Practice and Science
SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Headache, forensic, general neurology

Hong Lei, M.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, acupuncture

Tanya Lin, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Movement disorders

Felesia MacFarland, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Headache, general neurology

Steven Rapcsak, M.D., Professor, Neurology VAMC, Psychology, Speech Language & Hearing
and BIO5 Institute
SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Behavioral neurology, dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral
lateralization

Katalin Scherer, M.D., Associate Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: EMG/NCS, neuromuscular, ALS and muscular dystrophy

Scott J. Sherman, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology & Physiology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders
SPECIAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Transitional therapeutics: neurotrophic factors, viral-
vectored gene therapy, cell-based therapy

Jennifer Tay, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL INTERESTS: EMG/NCS, neuromuscular

Myrka Torres, M.D., Assistant Professor, Clinical Neurology

SPECIAL MEDICAL INTERESTS: Epilepsy, epidemiology

RESEARCH FACULTY –

Jenny Chong, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Neurology, Public Health and Family
Community Medicine
SPECIAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Epidemiology, treatment outcomes, psychosocial aspects of
diseases

Torsten Falk, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology

SPECIAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Translational therapeutics of Parkinson’s disease:
neurotrophic factors, viral-vectored gene therapy, cell-based therapy

Lalitha Madhavan, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain
Institute, Molecular & Cellular Medicine and BIO5 Institute
SPECIAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Therapeutics for neurological disorders using stem cells,
endogenous neural stem cells in development and disease, graft-host interactions after neural
transplantation, CNS plasticity and regeneration, stem cells and aging, induced pluripotent stem
cells, Stem Cell Biology, Aging and Parkinson's Disease.

Linda Restifo, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, Cellular & Molecular
Medicine and BIO5 Institute
SPECIAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: Intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism,
neurogenetics, drug discovery, cell-based and behavioral assays, genomic technology

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