All graduating pediatric neurology residents have been successful at pursuing academic, private or military careers after completing their fellowship, including both research and senior clinical fellowships at Children's National Hospital and other prestigious institutions. Mentee achievements and placements range from specialized fellowships and awards to assistant professorships.
Dhwani Sahjwani, MD – Accepted neurocritical care faculty position at Children’s National
Allison Saunders, MD – Neuromuscular fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital
Olubusola Shifatu, MD – Accepted position as child neurology attending at Novant Health in North Carolina
Lauren Vilardo, MD – Accepted neuro-hospitalist faculty position at Children’s National
Emma Hickman, MD – Fetal neonatal neurology fellowship, Children’s National
Vivien Xie, MD – Neuroimmunology fellow, Children’s National; hired as faculty at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Sanam Zarei, MD - Epilepsy fellowship, Children’s National; accepted child neurology faculty position at Children’s National
Nouf Alaqla, MD – Attending in child neurology, National Guard Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Natalie Kukulka, MD – Neuromuscular fellowship, University of Rochester Medical Center; assistant professor of Child Neurology, University of Utah Hospital
Elizabeth Pickup, MD – Attending neurologist at Children’s National
Mrinmayee Takle, MD – Attending neurologist at Children’s National
Marina Eskandar, MD – Attending neurologist at University of Maryland
Ilyse Genser, MD – Neuro-hospitalist and outpatient attending at Children’s National; associate program director for the Child Neurology Residency Program, Children’s National
Molly Moehlman, MD – Neuro-immunology fellow at Colorado Children’s Hospital; assistant professor of Neuroimmunology, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Mejdi Najjar, MD – Epilepsy fellow at Children’s National; neurocritical care attending, Children’s National
Heather Kaminsky, MD — Attending neurologist at Rochester University focusing on headache and neuro-developmental disabilities
Nicole Pariseau, MD — Neuro-hospitalist at University of Michigan; associate program director, Child Neurology Residency, CS Mott Children’s Hospital
Justine Record, MD — Epilepsy fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; sleep medicine attending, Children’s National
Victoria Vinarsky, MD — Epilepsy fellow at George Washington University Hospital; returning to Children’s National as epileptologist focused on the transition from pediatric to adult epilepsy
Kuntal Sen, MD — Attending neuro-geneticist at Children's National
Carlos Castillo Pinto, MD — Completed clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital; attending neurologist and neuro-intensivist at Seattle Children's Hospital
Jennifer Harmon, MD, PhD — Medical genetics fellowship at Children's National; Neurogenetics attending, Wake Forest University
Eric Strong, MD — Neuro-hospitalist at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, focused on general Neurology, Neurodevelopmental disabilities, and headaches. Also serves as the primary neurologist for the Geisinger Bucknell Autism & Developmental Medicine Center; program director, Child Neurology Residency, Geisinger Medical Center. Division chief, Child Neurology, Geisinger Medical Center
Youssef Kousa, DO, PhD – Accepted position as a physician-scientist specializing in prenatal neurology and neonatal neurocritical care at Children’s National. Dr. Kousa is investigating genetic risk factors contributing to brain malformations at Children’s National Research Institute and George Washington University.
Susanna Yoon, MD — Completed epilepsy fellowship at Children’s National 2020-2021. David Lewis Outstanding Fellow Award Recipient 2019. Epilepsy attending and director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Alexander Andrews, MD — Completed epilepsy fellowship at George Washington University; Accepted position as child neurologist and epileptologist at Georgetown University Hospital
Meaghan Kelly, MD — Accepted position as child neurologist at Pediatric Specialists of Virginia
Nathan Cohen, MD — Completed epilepsy fellowship at Children’s National and accepted position as child neurologist and epileptologist
