Neurology

Office: 8D University Health Center; 313-577-1242
Chairperson: Robert P. Lisak

M.D. Program Education

Post-Graduate Education

Research Electives

Professors

Thomas Babb, Joyce A. Benjamins, Seemant Chaturvedi, Harry T. Chugani, C. Edward Coffey, Paula Dore-Duffy, John Kamholz, Omar Khan, William J. Kupsky, Richard Lewis, Peter A. LeWitt, Robert P. Lisak, Kenneth Maiese, Michael A. Nigro (Emeritus), Michael Shy, Anders Sima, Craig E. Watson, Zhenggang Zhang

Associate Professors

Gyula Acsadi, Joshua E. Adler, Geoffrey Barger, Gregory Barkley, William Coplin, James Y. Garbern, Alex Gow, A.H.M.M. Huq, Quan Jiang, Sheldon Kapen, Robert Knight, Karen M. Krajewski, Jun Li, Yi Li, Jeffrey Loeb, Tom Mikkelsen, Panayiotis Mitsias, Otto Muzik, Lori Ann Schuh, Aashit Shah, Brien Smith, Marianna Spanaki-Varelas, Gerard Tromp, Alexandros C. Tselis, Gregory Van Stavern, Panayiotis Varelas

Clinical Associate Professors

Paul A. Cullis, Chandrakant Desai, Ljubisa Dragovic, Cesar D. Hidalgo, Jay Kaner, Demetrios Kikas, William Leuchter, Patti Peterson, Todd Rozen, A. Robert Spitzer, Bharat M. Tolia, Danny F. Watson

Adjunct Associate Professors

Bradley N. Axelrod, Margaret Greenwald

Assistant Professors

Agnes Acsadi, Elizabeth Angus, Eishi Asano, Marie Atkinson, Michael E. Behen, David Benjamins, Randall R. Benson, Susan Bowyer, David Burdette, Zhao-zhong Chong, James R. Ewing, M. Maher Fakhouri, Shawna Feely, Edwin George, Csaba Juhasz, Hao Jiang, Huiyuan Jiang, Ramesh Madhavan, Marianne Majkowski, Daniel Newman, Gregory Norris, Samia Ragheb, Kumar Rajamani, Kamala Rodrigues, Andrew Russman, Sunitha Santhakumar, James F. Selwa, Rhonna Shatz, Alice Silbergleit, Carly Siskind, Lalitha Sivaswamy, Brian Silver, Dusanka Skundric, Senthil Sundaram, Renee Van Stavern, Andrew Xavier

Clinical Assistant Professors

M. Mazen Al-Hakim, Lourdes V. Andaya, Andrew Biondo, Jose U. DeSousa, Lawrence Eilender, Anthony A. Emmer, Raina M. Ernstoff, David Gaston, Thomas Giancarlo, Anne M. Guyot, Brian Kirschner, Bruce Kole, Boris Leheta, Jasper McLaurin, Sami Mounayer, Ayman Rayes, Leonard Sahn, Vijay Samuel, Steven Schecter, Richard Trosch

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Laurace E. Townsend

Clinical Instructors

David Lustig, Saleem Tahir

Associates

Leon Carlock (Molecular Medicine and Genetics), Diane Chugani (Pediatrics), Richard Fessler (Neurological Surgery), Morris Goodman (Anatomy), Robert Johnson (Neurological Surgery), Chuan-Pu Lee (Biochemistry), Jose Rafols (Anatomy), Jeffrey L. Ram (Physiology), Robert Skoff (Anatomy), Robert H. Swanborg (Immunology and Microbiology), Harley Y. Tse (Immunology and Microbiology)

M.D. Program Education

The Department of Neurology provides instruction in the first, second, third and fourth years of the medical curriculum. Members participate in the first year basic neuroscience course. In the second year the department is responsible for the clinical neuroscience-neurology course, which emphasizes pathophysiology. During the third year, all students rotate for four weeks through the neurology unit at one of the University-affiliated hospitals, at which time the students receive bedside and outpatient teaching and are given responsibilities in patient management. Clinical electives for students who have completed the required courses are available for interested students.

Post-Graduate Education

The Wayne State University Neurology Residency Training Program is a fully-accredited program located at the Detroit Medical Center and the Veterans Administration Hospital. The department offers a three-year training program for candidates applying for second year post-graduate level of training. Post-residency fellowships are also available in neuromuscular diseases/EMG, epilepsy/EEG, neurocritical care, multiple sclerosis/neuroimmunology, stroke, clinical neurophysiology, movement disorders and sleep disorders.

Research Electives

Research electives for medical students are available, either in brief summer rotations or for longer periods taken during elective time. Interested students are encouraged to contact the Department of Neurology.