Alumni
The Yale Department of Neurosurgery is proud of our residents and what they’ve been able to accomplish!
2023
- Adam Kundishora, MD
Post Graduate Training: Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship, Division of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA - Christopher Hong, MD
Post Graduate Training: Pituitary and Skull Base Surgery Fellowship, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
2022
- Stephanie Cheok, MD
Fellowship: Neurosurgical Oncology and Skull Base Tumor Fellowship
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI - Abhijeet Gummadavelli, MD
Post Graduate Training: Stereotaxic and Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship, Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
2021
- Ramana Gorrepati, MD
Neurosurgeon, Fourth Corner Neurosurgical Associates, Bellingham, WA
- Elena Fomchenko, MD
Neuro-Oncology Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX
2020
- Jacky Yeung, MD
Post Graduate Training: Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sidney, Australia
- Gregory Kuzmik, MD
Post Graduate Training: UCSF Department of Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship, San Francisco, CA
2019
- Joaquin Camara-Quintana, MD
Post Graduate Training: Fellowship Program in Complex Spinal Surgery, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI
Current employment: Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Brown University, Providence, RI - Branden Cord, MD
Post Graduate Training: Yale Neurovascular Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, Davis, CA
2018
- Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD
Post Graduate Training: Yale Epilepsy Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Current employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
2017
- David Gimbel, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: University of Cincinnati Neurosurgical Clinical Instructorship in Complex Spinal Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA - Ryan Grant, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Yale University Spine Instructorship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Geisinger Neuroscience Institute, Danville, PA
2016
- Luis Kolb, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Yale University Spine Instructorship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT - Sacit Bulent Omay, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Neurosurgery
2015
- Ryan Hebert, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Neuroendovascular Fellowship; Thomas Jefferson University, Pittsburg, PA
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Neurosurgery - Brian Kelley, M.D., Ph.D.
Post Graduate Training: Pediatric Spinal Deformity Fellowship, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY
Current Employment: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Faculty Instructor, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2014
- Brian J. McHugh, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Hospital of Special Surgery Fellowship; New York, NY
Current Employment: Current position: SpineCare Long Island, Long Island, NY - Juan Torres-Reveron, M.D., Ph.D.
Post Graduate Training: Yale School of Medicine Epilepsy Fellowship; New Haven, CT
Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Director, Functional Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
2013
- Toral Patel, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship, New York, NY
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern; Dallas, TX
- Ali Ozturk, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Johns Hopkins Complex Spinal Surgery Fellowship, Baltimore, MD
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2012
- Jennifer Moliterno Gunel, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship, New York, NY
Current Employment: Chief, Section of Neurosurgical Oncology, Primary Brain Tumors; Co-Director, Yale Brain Tumor Center, Smilow Cancer Hospital; Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery - Willard Kasoff, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Emory University Functional/Stereotactic Surgery Fellowship; Atlanta, GA
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Medical Center; Tuscon, AZ
2011
- Nduka Amankulor, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship, New York, NY
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA - Grahame Gould, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Neuroendovascular Fellowship, Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania, PA
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, SUNY- Upstate University Hospital
2010
- Maxwell Laurans, M.D., M.B.A.
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Yale Department of Neurosurgery - Eylem Ocal, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: British Columbia Children’s Hospital Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship; Vancouver, BC
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Arkansas Children Hospital, Little Rock, AK
2009
- Michael DiLuna, M.D.
Post Graduate Training: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship; Philadelphia, PA
Current Employment: Neurosurgery Residency Program Director; Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Chief, Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery - Andy Redmond, M.D.
Current Employment: Precision Spine Care, Tyler, TX
2008
- Louis Marotti , M.D., Ph.D.
Post Graduate Training: New England Baptist Hospital Spinal Surgery Fellowship, Boston, MA
Current Employment: Brain Orthopedic Spine Specialists, Lancaster, PA