Natasha Choudhury, MD, MPH
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…
Mariana Udo, MS, PhD
Dr. Udo is a Brazilian pharmacist with master’s and Ph.D. in toxicology whose work centers on how disruption in cerebral blood flow drives cognitive decline in aging and disease. Her research focuses on vascular dementia, brain hypoperfusion, neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer’s…
Shirin Jamal-Omidi, MD
Dr. Shirin Jamal Omidi is a neurologist specialized in epilepsy. She completed her neurology residency at UTHealth Houston, where she developed a strong interest in surgical and autoimmune-related epilepsies. She then accomplished fellowship training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,…
Devika S. Manickam, PhD
Devika S. Manickam received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI). Her laboratory is developing extracellular vesicles (EVs) for the delivery of mitochondria as a platform technology for treating a wide range of diseases associated with…
Emily Tharp, MD
Dr. Emily Tharp is a board-certified neurologist with advanced fellowship training in movement disorders. She specializes in the medical and surgical management of Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders. Dr. Tharp graduated from Villanova University in Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s…
Elli Allen, MD
Dr. Elli Allen is a board-certified neurologist with advanced fellowship training in epilepsy management. She specializes in diagnosing and treating seizures and epilepsy, offering both medical and surgical treatment options, and has particular expertise in critical care EEG. A proud…
Xubing Hao, PhD
Dr. Hao is an Instructor in the Department of Neurology at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston. She received interdisciplinary training in biomedical informatics, data analytics, and computer science. Her expertise includes analyzing and integrating large-scale biomedical datasets, including complex and…
Tianxu Xia, MD
Dr. Tianxu Xia is a board-certified, fellowship-trained behavioral neurologist and neuropsychiatrist. His clinical interests include various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body disease, frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, corticobasal syndrome, and progressive supranuclear palsy, among others. He is also focused on…
Veronica Burton, PhD, ABPP
Dr. Veronica Burton is a bilingual (English-Spanish) board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). She has extensive experience working with patients…
Abdulrahman Alwaki, MD
Dr. Alwaki is triple board certified in neurology, clinical neurophysiology, and epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). He completed residency training in neurology at Henry Ford Health System/Wayne State University and served as chief resident. He…