The Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Fellowship Program
The Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Center is a NAEC Level IV center located in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Trainees are supervised and mentored by medical school faculty in a comprehensive training program focused on the diagnosis and management of epilepsy in both adults and children. The high volume surgical program provides experience in stereo and subdural EEG, functional mapping, laser ablation, RNS and VNS. Rotations include adult and pediatric epilepsy monitoring units, routine and continuous EEG, epilepsy clinic, and elective rotations in intraoperative monitoring and research.
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Program Overview
Duration and Accreditation: The Johns Hopkins program offers two Epilepsy fellowship tracks:
- A one-year ACGME accredited fellowship track that fulfills ABPN requirements for certification in epilepsy.
- A two-year fellowship track that includes an ACGME accredited first year, and a second ACGME equivalent year for additional experience in epilepsy surgery, electives and research.
Program Features:
- Clinical management of adult and pediatric inpatients and outpatients.
- Interpretation of EEGs in inpatients and outpatients with and without epilepsy.
- Emphasis on diagnostic and clinical management of adult and pediatric patients undergoing long-term inpatient video-EEG monitoring for epilepsy and related conditions, including surgical management of medically refractory epilepsy. Patients are monitored in the Johns Hopkins and Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Epilepsy Monitoring Units (EMUs), Neuro-Critical Care Unit (NCCU), and in other inpatient clinical units at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Additional opportunities include:
- Participation in investigational drug trials.
- Longitudinal follow-up of patients who have undergone neuromodulation therapies such as RNS.
- Initiation and continuation of ketogenic diet therapies in the adult and pediatric population.
Eligibility: Physicians who anticipate completion of an accredited residency in neurology or child neurology are encouraged to apply
How to apply: Please apply through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) and include your CV, a personal statement, and three letters of recommendation, including one from your residency director. Applications will be accepted annually through January 31.
Contact Information
For application information or questions, please contact the fellowship coordinator Joanne Barnett:
The Johns Hopkins Epilepsy Center
Attention: Joanne Barnett
600 North Wolfe Street,
Meyer 2-147
Baltimore, Maryland, 21287-7247
Phone: 410-955-7338, extension 4
Fax: 410-502-2507
Email: [email protected]
Program Director
Fellowship Faculty
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Sarah Aminoff Kelley MD
- Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
- Associate Professor of Neurology
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Carl E. Stafstrom MD PhD
- Director of the John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center
- Professor of Neurology
Current Fellows
First-Year Fellows
Sahithi Battini
Medical School: NRI Medical College (2018)
Neurology: University of Arkansas (2019-2023)
Wesley Budd
Medical School: Lake Erie COM (2019)
Neurology: Case Western Reserve University (2019-2023)
Jaeho Hwang
Medical School: Harvard Medical School (2019)
Internal Medicine: Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (2019-2020)
Neurology: Johns Hopkins Hospital (2020-2023)
William A. Li
Medical School: Wayne State University (2018)
Internal Medicine: University of Iowa (2018-2019)
Neurology: University of Iowa (2019-2022)
Sleep Medicine: Stanford University (2022-2023)
Lauren Chamberlain Morris
Medical School: Philadelphia COM (2018)
Pediatrics: Duke University (2018-2020)
Pediatric Neurology: Duke University (2020-2023)
Second-Year Fellows
Doris Deng
Medical School: University of South Florida (2018)
Neurology: University of Texas, Southwestern (2018-2022)
Rachel Penn
Medical School: University of Miami (2017)
Pediatrics: The Johns Hopkins Hospital (2017-2019)
Pediatric Neurology: The Johns Hopkins Hospital (2019-2022)
Fellowship Alumni
Lindsay Schleifer Bhandari, M.D. | 2023
Current Position: IOM Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
Vishal Pandya, M.D. | 2023
Current Position: Faculty, Medical College of Wisconsin
Sonali Sharma, M.D. | 2023
Current Position: Faculty, Medical University of South Carolina
Waleed Abood, M.D. | 2022
Current Position: Faculty, Wayne State University
Stephen Briggs, M.D. | 2022
Current Position: Faculty, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Siddharth Gupta, M.D. | 2022
Current Position: Staff Neurologist, The Kennedy Krieger Institute
Babitha Haridas, M.B.B.S. | 2022
Current Position: Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Jay Bronder, M.D. | 2021
Current Position: Staff Neurologist, The Neurology Center, Washington, DC
Naveed Chaudhry, M.D. | 2021
Current Position: Faculty, University of Colorado
Mohaned Osman, M.D. | 2021
Current Position: Staff Neurologist, Boystown National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE
Khalil Husari, M.D. | 2020
Current Position: Clinical Associate, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Claudio Osorio, M.D. | 2020
Current Position: Group practice, Orlando, FL
Susan Fong, M.D., Ph.D. | 2019
Current Position: Faculty, University of Cincinnati
Jaivir Rathore, M.D. | 2019
Current Position: Private Practice, Lakeland, FL
Susan Ellor, M.D. | 2018
Current Position: Private Practice, Cary, North Carolina
Samata Singhi, M.D. | 2018
Current Position:
Dalila Lewis, M.D. | 2017
Current Position: Faculty, University of Wisconsin
Tanya McDonald, M.D., Ph.D. | 2017
Current Position: Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Christa Habela, M.D. | 2016
Current Position: Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Erik Sass, M.D. | 2016
Current Position: Private Practice, Carolinas Health Care System, Charlotte, NC
Mary Gregory, M.D. | 2015
Current Position: Private Practice, Prisma Health, Columbia, SC
Emily Johnson, M.D. | 2015
Current Position: Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Elizabeth Felton, M.D., Ph.D. | 2014
Current Position: Faculty, University of Wisconsin
Elakkat Dharmaraj Gireesh, M.D. | 2014
Current Position: Private Practice, Florida Epilepsy Center, Orlando, FL
Mohammedhamed Labbaf, M.D. | 2013
Current Position: Private Practice, NOVA Neurology Center, Manassas, VA
Angela Wabulya, M.B.Ch.B. | 2013
Current Position: Faculty, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sarah Kelley, M.D. | 2012
Current Position: Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Taryn Fortune, M.D. | 2011
Current Position: Staff Neurologist, The Neurology Center, Wheaton, MD
Suma Muthugovindan | 2010
Current Position:
Tung Tran, M.D. | 2010
Current Position: Faculty, Duke University
Mackenzie Cervenka, M.D. | 2009
Current Position: Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Susan Shaw | 2008
Current Position: Faculty, University of Southern California
Joshua Ewen, M.D. | 2007
Current Position: Staff, The Kennedy Krieger Institute, Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Pegah Afra, M.D. | 2006
Current Position: Faculty, Weill Cornell Medicine
Adam Hartman, M.D. | 2006
Current Position: Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Mohamad Koubeissi | 2005
Current Position: Faculty, GW Medical Faculty Associates