Recent Graduates | Neurological Surgery Residency Program | MedStar Health

We are very proud of our resident graduates, who, year-after-year, go to highly competitive fellowship training, followed by much-sought-after academic and practice positions. Here is a summary of what our most recent graduates have done after MedStar Georgetown:

2023

  • Tianzan Zhou, MD
    Fellowship: Endovascular Neurosurgery at Cedars Sinai

    Ehsan Dowlati, MD
    Fellowship: Endovascular Neurosurgery at University of Michigan

2022

  • Islam Fayed, MD
    Fellowship: Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
    Current Position: Director of Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery at Cooper University Health Care

  • Alex Tai, MD
    Fellowship: Skull Base Surgery at University of South Florida Tampa General Hospital
    Current Position: Skull Base Surgeon at Washington Brain and Spine Institute

2021

  • John Lynes, MD
    Fellowship: Neurosurgical Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL

2020

  • Anthony Conte, MD
    Fellowship: Complex Spine at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL
    Current Position: in Hackensack, NJ
  • Kyle Mueller, MD
    Fellowship: Complex Spine at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University in Providence, RI
    Current Position: UPenn Neurosurgery at Cherry Hill, NJ

2018

  • Jason McGowan, MD
    Fellowship: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Care
    Current Position: Private Practice at NeurosurgeryOne in LIttleton, CO
  • Tushar Jha, MD
    Fellowship: University of South Florida Tampa General Hospital
    Current Position: Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, MA

2017

  • Daniel Felbaum, MD
    Fellowship: Global Neurosciences Institute
    Current Position: Open/Endovascular Neurosurgery at Global Neurosciences Institute in Philadelphia, PA
  • Joshua Ryan, MD
    Current Position: Private Practice at Long Island Neurosurgical and Pain Specialists in West Islip, NY

2016

  • Hasan Syed, MD
    Sub-specialty: Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow
    Fellowship: Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Northwestern)
  • Robert Rice, MD
    Current Position: Private Practice, Bristol, TN

2015

  • Rory Petteys, MD
    Sub-specialty: Complex Spine
    Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Steven Spitz, MD
    Sub-specialty: Complex Spine
    Fellowship: Emory University Hospital

2014

  • David Herzig, MD
    Sub-specialty: General Neurosurgery, Minimally invasive spinal techniques
    Fellowship: Rex, Neurosurgery and Spine Specialists, Raleigh
  • Jay Rhee, MD
    Sub-specialty: Complex Spine
    Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital

2013

  • Hugh Gill, MD
    Sub-specialty: General Neurosurgery
    Fellowship: Lynchburg General Hospital
  • Dana Adkins, MD
    Sub-specialty: Complex Spine
    Fellowship: University of Washington Medical Center

2012

  • Amanda Saratsis, MD
    Sub-specialty: Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellow
    Fellowship: Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Northwestern)
  • Amjad Anaizi, MD
    Sub-specialty: Skull Base
    Fellowship: University of Cincinnati/Mayfield Clinic Current Position: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

2011

  • Gregory Cumberbatch, MD
    Current Position: Atlanta Medical Center

2010

  • J. Alex Thomas, MD
    Current Position: Atlantic Neurosurgical and Spine Specialists, P.A.

2009

  • Michael Huang, MD
    Sub-specialty: Skull Base
    Fellowship: USH - van Loveren
    Current Position: University of California San Francisco/San Francisco General

2008

  • Nicholas Coppa, MD
    Sub-specialty: Skull Base
    Fellowship: Oregan Health and Science University - Delashaw
    Current Position: Cape Cod Healthcare

2007

  • Mudit Sharma, MD
    Current Position: Virginia Spine Specialists

2006

  • Jean-Marc Voyadzis, MD
    Sub-specialty: Spine (MIS)
    Fellowship: University of Chicago - Fessler
    Current Position: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

2005

  • Jeffrey Degen, MD
    Current Position: Hudson Valley Brain and Spine Surgery

2004

  • Amanda Yaun, MD
    Sub-specialty: Pediatrics
    Fellowship: Children's National Medical Center - Keating
    Current Position: OU Medicine

2003

  • Ryder Gwinn, MD
    Sub-specialty: Epilepsy
    Fellowship: Yale - Spencer
    Current Position: Swedish MC, Seattle

2002

  • Faheem Sandhu, MD
    Sub-specialty: Spine (MIS)
    Fellowship: University of Chicago - Fessler
    Current Position: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital

2001

  • Jean-Valery Coumans, MD
    Sub-specialty: Spine
    Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic - Benzel
    Current Position: Harvard/ Massachusetts General Hospital

At the end of each academic year, our program celebrates the completion of training of our residents in a dinner reception. Here are some pictures from the recent events:

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