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Meet the Fellows

Current Fellows

Chrisoula Cheronis, MD (2025-2026)

  • Program: Pediatric Neurocritical Care
  • Medical School: Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
  • Residency: Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program
  • Research: Mangement of refractory status epilepticus 
Heather Voss-Hoynes, MD, PhD

Heather Voss-Hoynes, MD, PhD (2025-2026)

  • Program: Neurocritical Care
  • Medical School: University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences 
  • Residency: McGaw Medical Center Northwestern University, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
  • Research: Mangement of refractory status epilepticus 

Past Fellows

First Position After Graduation

Muthiah Ramu Annamalai, DO (2024-2025)

Barrie Jo Kaiser, MD (2024-2025)

Delaney Dowd, MD (2023-2024): Assistant Professor of Neurology.  UT Southwestern School of Medicine. Dallas, TX

Simon MacDonald, MD (2023-2024): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Division of Critical Care. Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval. Quebec City, Canada

Lauren Reiter, MD (2022-2023): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care. Medical College of Wisconsin. Milwakee, WI

Rachel Pauley (2022-2023): Fellowship in Epilepsy, McGaw Medical Center Northwestern University, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Laura Caligiuri, MD (2021-2022): Assistant Professor of Neurology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA

Nicolas Chiriboga-Salazar, MD (2021-2022): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Critical Care at UTHSC/LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN

Zach Daniels, MD (2020-2021): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Critical Care at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, LA

Melissa Squires, MD, MPH (2020-2021): Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, OH

Elizabeth Mayne, MD (2019-2020): Physician-Scientist, Instructor of Neurology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, CA

Gurpreet Khaira, MD (2019-2020): Attending Physician, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Divakar Mithal, MD (2018-2019): Instructor of Pediatrics (Neurology and Epilepsy), Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Giulia Benedetti, MD (2017-2018): Child Neurology, Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship at University of Michigan

Christopher Ruzas, MD (2017-2018): Assistant Professor Division of Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital of Colorado

Kathleen Gorman, MD (2016-2017): Child Neurology, Clinical research fellowship in movement disorders at Great Ormond Street/UCL Institute of Child Health, London, England 

Craig Press, MD PhD (2015-2016): Director of Pediatric Neurocritical Care and Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado

Jonathan Kurz, MD PhD (2014-2015): Instructor of Pediatrics-Neurology and Neurocritical Care Attending at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital

Laurence Ducharme-Crevier, MD (2014-2015): Co-Director of Pediatric Neurocritical Care and Assistant Professor of Critical Care and Pediatrics at the University of Montreal, St. Justine Children’s Hospital.

Sue Hong, MD (2014-2015): Assistant Professor of Critical Care and Neurocritical Care Attending at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.

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