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…
Cornelius Ngwa, PhD
Dr. Ngwa has dedicated his scientific career to investigating the role of immune cells in ischemic stroke and other central nervous system (CNS) disorders. His early research focused on the development of peptide nucleic acids as therapeutic agents; an interdisciplinary…
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
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…
Robert Regenhardt, MD
A native of Florida, Dr. Regenhardt received his Bachelor of Science with Honors in the combined early acceptance BS-MD program at the University of Florida. As part of the also combined MD-PhD program, he earned his PhD in physiology and…
Victor Banerjee, PhD
Dr. Victor Banerjee specializes in structural biology, focusing on prion-like protein transmission. After completing his undergraduate studies in chemistry at Jadavpur University, he developed an early interest in the intersection of chemistry and biology, which laid the foundation for his…
Zufe Rizvi, MD
Dr. Rizvi received her medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. She completed her Neurology Residency at Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine in Boca Raton, Florida, where she served as chief neurology resident. She went…