The Johns Hopkins Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship
The Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins is a 1-year ACGME-accredited clinical program to train neurologists in neuromuscular disorders. Fellows learn proper diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders, perform and read nerve and muscle biopsies, and learn to carry out electrodiagnostic evaluations with nerve conduction studies and electromyography.
Explore on this page: Director | Current Fellows | Faculty | Alumni
Fellowship at a Glance:
- Duration: 1 year (1-2 year extensions for focused research are available in the areas of muscle disorders, peripheral nerve disorders and motor neuron disease).
- Number of positions: 2
- How to apply: applications are accepted through the AANEM fellowship portal.
- Important dates: Interview offers will not be made before March 1 of the year prior to the fellowship start date. Fellowship positions will not be offered before June 1 of the year prior to the fellowship start date. Violations of this will result in removal of our institution from the AANEM Fellowship Portal.
Fellowship Director
Class of 2022
Rizamarie Empeno, MD
Undergraduate Education: University of Maryland College Park (2011)
Graduate School: Johns Hopkins University (MS, Biotechnology 2015)
Medical School: American University of the Caribbean (2019)
Internal Medicine: Temple University Medical Center (2019-2020)
Neurology: Temple University Medical Center (2020-2023)
Alexander Morrison, MD
Undergraduate Education: Princeton University (2012)
Graduate School: University of Pennsylvania (MS, Translational Research 2019)
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania (2019)
Internal Medicine: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2019-2020)
Neurology: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2020-2023)
Ruchee Patel, MD
Undergraduate Education: University of Chicago (2014)
Medical School: Chicago Medical School (2018)
Pediatrics: The Johns Hopkins Hospital (2018-2020)
Pediatric Neurology: The Johns Hopkins Hospital (2020-2023)
Fellowship Faculty
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Thomas Crawford, M.D.
- Co-Director, Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinic
- Professor of Neurology
- Professor of Pediatrics
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Ahmet Hoke, M.D., Ph.D.
- Director, Neuromuscular Division
- Director, Neuromuscular Pathology Laboratory
- Professor of Neurology
- Professor of Neuroscience
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Nicholas John Maragakis, M.D.
- Director, Center for ALS Specialtiy Care
- Director, ALS Center for Cell Therapy and Regeneration Research
- Medical Director, ALS Clinical Trials Unit
- Professor of Neurology
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Bipasha Mukherjee-Clavin, M.D., Ph.D.
- Co-director of the Johns Hopkins Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Clinic
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
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Jeffrey Rothstein, M.D., Ph.D.
- Director, Robert Packard Center for ALS Research
- Professor of Neurology
- Professor of Neuroscience
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Charlotte Jane Sumner, M.D.
- Professor of Neurology
- Professor of Genetic Medicine
- Professor of Neuroscience
Fellowship Alumni by Decade
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- 2023: Christina Martin Schaff
Meghan McAnally - 2022: Bipasha Mukherjee-Clavin | Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
Rotem Orbach | NIH, NINDS - 2021: Qihua Fan |Faculty, Virginia Commonwealth University
Arjun Seth | Faculty, Northwestern University
- 2023: Christina Martin Schaff
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- 2020: Sarah Berth | Faculty, Baylor College of Medicine
- 2020: Safoora Syeda | NIH, NINDS
- 2020: William Tsao | Staff Neurologist, Greater Baltimore Medical Center
- 2019: Matthew Elrick | Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
- 2019: Kyle Mahoney | Faculty, University of Utah
- 2018: Leana Doherty | Faculty, University of Pittsburgh
- 2017: Peggy Lazerow | Staff Neurologist, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
- 2017: Elizabeth Michelle | Staff Neurologist, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
- 2017: Sarah Neuhaus
- 2016: Lindsey Hayes | Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
- 2016: Brett McCray | Faculty, University of Michigan
- 2015: Hristelina Ilieva | Faculty, Thomas Jefferson University
- 2014: Payam Mohassel | Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
- 2014: Jessica Nance | Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
- 2014: Margaret Owegi | Faculty, University of Massachusetts
- 2013: Madhavi Jinka
- 2013: Catherine Mamah | Staff, Sanford Neurology Clinic, Sioux Falls, SD
- 2012: Tae Hwan Chung | Faculty, The Johns Hopkins University
- 2012: Mahsa Mehrazin | Faculty, SUNY Downstate
- 2011: Shan "Sarah" Chen | Staff Neurologist, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
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- 2010: Lyle Ostrow | Faculty, Temple University
- 2010: Ricardo Roda | Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
- 2009: Erika Finanger | Faculty, Ohio State University
- 2009: John Neely | Private Practice, San Francisco, CA
- 2008: Thomas Lloyd | Faculty, Baylor College of Medicine
- 2007: W. Bryan Burnette | Faculty, Vanderbilt University
- 2007: Chang-Ching (Debbie) Lin
- 2006: Irene C.M. Cortese | NIH, NINDS
- 2006: Brett Morrison | Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
- 2005: Andrew Mammen | NIH, NIAMS
- 2005: Sindhu Ramchandren
- 2004: Abhay Moghekar | Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
- 2004: Thien Nguyen
- 2003: Muhammad Munir
- 2003: Lan Zhou
- 2002: Mohammad Choudhry
- 2002: Sanjay Keswani
- 2001: Charlotte Sumner | Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
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- 2000: Beth Hogans, Christopher Klein and Thurman Wheeler
- 1999: Nicholas Maragakis, Michael Polydefkis and Kathryn Wagner
- 1998: Michael Pulley and Jennifer York
- 1997: Charles Abrams, Alan Mandir and Robert Minahan
- 1996: Susan Evans and Judith Spies
- 1995: Kevin M. Flanigan and Eliot Frohman
- 1994: Andrew Blum, Susan Calkins and Charlene Macko
- 1993: Richard O’Brien
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- Sawsan Abu-Shakra
- Kathy Alderson
- Clifford G. Andrew
- Orlando Aviva
- Ronald O. Bailey
- Laura Balcher
- Kevin Boylan
- Rachel Brem
- John Brey
- Ian J. Butler
- Vinay Chaudhry
- Andrea Corse
- Evan Crain
- Shari DeSilva
- Armando Filomeno
- Kenneth H. Fischbeck
- Miriam Freimer
- Jonathan Glass
- John W. Griffin
- Ronald O. Haller
- Paul Hoffman
- Luke Kao
- Ralph Kunci
- James Michelson
- Betty Mintz
- Anne M. Murphy
- Edwin C. Myer
- Akiko Noguchi
- Bob Ouvrier
- Alan Pestronk
- Emanuel Rechtland
- Johannes Reim
- Jeffrey Rothstein
- S. Satya-Murti
- Marjorie Seybold
- Lloyd K. Shield
- Elise Stanley
- Deepak Tandon
- Robert Teoh
- Klaus Toyka
- Veda Vedanarayanan
- Danny Watson
- Woon-Chee Yee