Neurosurgery Current and Past Fellows

Image Guided Surgery Fellows

Current Fellow: Yaw Tachie-Baffour, MD

Fellowship Dates Fellow Residency Faculty
2011-2012 Daniel Orringer University of Michigan University of Michigan
2012-2013 Emam Saleh University Hospital, Paris VA Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
2013-2014 Parviz Dolati Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran BIDMC
2014-2015 Roy Torcuator St. Luke's Medical Center, Philippines Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience
2015-2016 Antonio Meola University of Pisa, Italy Stanford
2016-2017 Walid Ibn Essayed BWH/BCH UTHealth Neurosciences and McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
2018-2019 Adomas Bunevicius Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2019-2020 Thomas Noh Henry Ford Hospital Hawaii Pacific Health
2020-2021 Dhiego Chaves de Almeida Bastos State University of Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brazil Cleveland Clinic
2021-2023 Erickson Torio, MD St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines  
2023-2024 Charles Couturier, MD, PhD McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada MNI/McGill
2024-2025 Frederic Racicot, MD University of Montreal, Canada Awake Surgery & Cerebral Mapping Fellowship, CHU de Montpellier, France (September to December 2025), Oncology Neurosurgeon at CHUM Hospital (University of Montreal), Montreal, QC, Canada (January 2026)

Pituitary Fellows

Current Fellow: Sabrina Heman-Ackah, MD, PhD

Fellowship Dates Fellow Residency Faculty
2009-2010 Gabriel Zada USC USC
2010-2011 Zachary Litvack OHSU GWU
2011-2012 Garni Barkhoudarian UCLA John Wayne Cancer Institute
2012-2013 Kenny De Los Reyes Mount Sinai Loma Linda University, CA
2013-2014 Michael Raber BWH/BCH Baylor
2014-2015 Timothy Smith Northwestern BWH
2015-2016 Hasan Zaidi The Barrow Neurological Institute BWH
2016-2017 Mina Safain Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center
2017-2018 David Penn BWH/BCH Vassar Brothers Medical Center and Danbury Hospital
2018-2019 Daniel Donoho USC Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC
2019-2020 Michael Catalino University of North Carolina UVA Health, Charlottesville, VA
2020-2021 Alaa Montaser Mayo Clinic Florida  
2022-2023 Sauradeep Sarkar, MBBS Christian Medical College, Vellore, India Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Whitefield Bengaluru
2023-2024 Christopher Hong, MD Yale New Haven Hospital, CT VA Boston
2024-2025 Ryan Chrenek, MD University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB  

Skull Base Fellows

Current Fellow: Erickson Torio, MD

Fellowship Dates Fellow Residency Faculty
2011-2012 Daryoush Tavanaiepour Medical College of VA University of Florida Jacksonville
2012-2013 Abraham Boskovitz Tufts Medical Center Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Scramento, CA
2013-2014 Urvashi Upadhyay BWH/BCH UMass Memorial Hospital
2014-2015 Kaith Al-Mefty The Barrow Neurological Institute The Barrow Neurological Institute
2015-2016 Rami Al-Mefty The Barrow Neurological Institute Temple
2016-2017 Omar Arnaout Northwestern BWH
2017-2018 Wenya Linda Bi BWH/BCH BWH
2018-2019 Michael Mooney Barrow Neurological Institute BWH
2019-2020 Kumar Vasudevan Emory School of Medicine Northside Hospital
2020-2021 Walid Ibn Essayed BWH/BCH UTHealth Neurosciences and McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
2021-2022 Samual Emerson University of Washington University of Washington
2022-2023 Jessica Rabski, MD University of Ottawa, ON, Canada University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
2023-2024 Serdar Kaya, MD Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Istanbul, Turkey St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, MA
2024-2025 Anil Can, MD Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam BWH Endovascular/Cerebrovascular fellowship

Spine Fellows

Current Fellow: Rohaid Ali, MD

Fellowship Dates Fellow Residency Faculty
2012-2013 Biji Bahuleyan Vellore India  
2013-2014 Yakov (Jake) Gologorsky Mount Sinai Metropolitan Neurosurgery, Englewood, NJ
2014-2015 Viren Vasudeva BWH/BCH Private Practice, Georgia
2015-2016 Justin Slavin University of Maryland University of Maryland
2016-2017 Muhammad Abd-El-Barr BWH/BCH Duke
2019-2020 Alessandro Boaro Università degli Studi di Padova  

Cerebrovascular/Endovascular Fellows

Current Fellows: Anil Can, MD, Daniel Munger, MD

Fellowship Dates Fellow Residency Faculty
2016-2018 Rodolfo E. Alcedo-Guardia University of Puerto Rico Menonita Caguas Hospital, Puerto Rico
2019-2021 Juan Vicenty-Padilla University of Puerto Rico University of Puerto Rico
2021-2023 Madhav Sukumaran, MD, PhD Northwestern University UMass Memorial Medical Center
2022-2024 Abdullah Feroze, MD University of Washington  
2024-2025 Sahin Hanalioglu, MD, PhD Hacettape University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey)
2023-2025 David Bass, MD, PhD University of Washington Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta

Other Research and Clinical Fellows

The following fellows completed fellowships in the past. However, these fellowships are not offered at BWH
at this time:

Fellowship Dates Fellow Fellowship Dates Fellowship Dates
2005-2006 Cormac Maher CV and Skull Base Faculty: University of MI
2005-2006 Sandeep Mittal Tumor Faculty: Wayne State University
2006-2007 Rose Du CV and Skull Base Faculty: BWH
2006-2007 Andrew Morokoff Tumor Parkville Neurosurgery, Melbourne AU
2007-2008 John Huan Wang CV and Skull Base Faculty: University of IL, Urbana-Champaign
2007-2008 Baki Albayrak Tumor  
2008-2009 Mark Dannenbaum CV and Skull Base Endovascular Fellowship: Emory University
2008-2009 James King Tumor Faculty: Melbourne, AY
2009-2010 Vikram Nayar CV and Skull Base Faculty: Georgetown University Hospital

 

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