Biography

Dr. Choudhury received her medical degree in 2018 at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, followed by neurology residency training at Baylor College of Medicine, where she also received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine through Baylor’s National School of Tropical Medicine in 2022. She then enrolled in the Master of Public Health program, with a concentration in infectious diseases, at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Clinical Care Fellowship Grant in 2023 and completed a clinical neuroimmunology fellowship at Northwestern University Medical Center in 2024. She then received EMD Serono’s I’M IN Health Equity/Neurodisparity Research Fellowship Grant and completed an additional clinical and research neuroimmunology fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in 2025. She simultaneously graduated with a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2025, receiving the Dr. Louis Fink MPH Capstone Award for Outstanding Achievement for her final Capstone project, “Mechanisms of Post-Infectious Neurologic Autoimmune Disease.”

Education

Medical Degree (MD)
Meharry Medical College, School of Medicine - Nashville, TN
Residency
Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine - Houston, TX
Fellowship
Neuroimmunology, Northwestern University Medical Center & Rush University Medical Center - Chicago, IL
Master of Public Heath (MPH)
Concentration: Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health - Baltimore, MD

Areas of Interest

Clinical Interests

  • Multiple sclerosis, other central nervous system (CNS) inflammatory diseases (including neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, MOG antibody-associated disease, neurosarcoidosis, neuropsychiatric lupus, autoimmune encephalitis, CNS vasculitis, stiff person spectrum disorder, neuro-Behcet’s disease, etc.)
  • Neuro-infectious diseases

Research Interests

  • Multiple sclerosis and other CNS inflammatory diseases
  • Neuro-infectious diseases
  • Health equity/reducing health disparities among people with neurologic diseases

Publications

1. Choudhury NA, Mukherjee S, Singer T, et al. Neurologic Manifestations of Long COVID Disproportionately Affect Young and Middle-Age Adults. Ann Neurol. Published online November 22, 2024. doi:10.1002/ana.27128

2. Choudhury NA, Balabanov R, and Sierra-Morales F. Multiple Sclerosis. In Ferri, FF (Ed.), Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2026 (1st ed.). Elsevier; 2025.

3. Choudhury NA, Castrodad-Molina RM, Cuascut FX, Hutton GJ. Elsberg syndrome following acute immunosuppressive treatment for multiple sclerosis relapse. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders 2022; 58:103498. DOI:10.1016/j.msard.2022.103498

4. Choudhury NA, DeBaun MR, Rodeghier M, King AA, Strouse JJ, McKinstry RC. Silent cerebral infarct definitions and full-scale IQ loss in children with sickle cell anemia. Neurology 2018; 90(3): e239-e246; DOI:10.1212/WNL.0000000000004832.

5. Choudhury NA, DeBaun MR, Ponisio MR, Jordan LC, Rodeghier M, Pruthi S, McKinstry RC. Intracranial vasculopathy and infarct recurrence in children with sickle cell anemia, silent cerebral infarcts, and normal transcranial Doppler velocities. British Journal of Haematology 2017; 183(2): 324-326. DOI:10.1111/bjh.14979.