Meet Our Fellows

The Department of Neurological Surgery's fellows are:

Current Neurosurgery Fellows

Joseph Lockwood, MD 2023–2024 Skull Base Neurological Surgery Fellow Tulane University/Ochsner Clinic Foundation

Tigran Khachatryan, MD 2023–2025 Neurointerventional Surgery Fellow University of California, Irvine

Nolan Winslow, MD 2023–2024 Epilepsy Neurological Surgery Fellow University of Illinois, Peoria

Past fellows

• Justin Granstein, MD, MPH - (Academic Practice - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard SOM, Boston, MA)
  2021-2023 Neurointerventional Surgery Fellow
  Neurocritical Care Fellow, Mount Sinai Hospital

• Maheen Khan, MD (Academic Practice - University of St. Louis)
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow
  Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
  St Louis University
  
  
• Michael G. Kim, MD (Private Practice - Long Beach, CA; VOL Assistant Clinical Professor, UCI Department of Neurological Surgery
  2021-2022
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow
  Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
  New York Medical College
  
  
• Brendan Fong, MD (Neurosurgery of St. Louis) 
  2020-2021
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow
  Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
  Washington University School of Medicine
  
  
• Kamran Urgun, MD 
  2019-2020
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow
  Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
  
  
• Andrew Schnure, DO (Practice- USC Arcadia Hospital-Keck Medicine of USC, Arcadia, CA) 
  Neurointerventional Surgery Fellow, 2018-2020
  Valley Hospital Medical Center
  
  
• Dustin Hatefi, MD
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow, 2018-2019
  University of California, San Diego
  
  
• Ali O. Jamshidi, MD
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow, 2017-2018
  The Ohio State University
  
  
• Ravi Patel, MD
  Neurointerventional Surgery Fellow, 2016-2018
  SUNY Upstate Medical University
  
  
• Mark Calayag, MD
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow, 2016-2017
  Albany Medical College
  
  
• Gilbert Cadena, MD
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow, 2015-2016
  University of California, Davis
  
  
• Thomas P. Lo, MD
  Endovascular Surgical Radiology Fellow, 2014-2015
  Loma Linda University
  
  
• Robert E. Ayer, MD
  Skull Base Neurosurgery Fellow, 2013-2014
  Loma Linda University