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Meet the Fellows

Current Fellows

Muthiah Ramu Annamalai, DO

Muthiah Ramu Annamalai, DO (2024-2025)

  • Program: Pediatric NeuroCritical Care
  • Medical School: Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
  • Residency: Baylor College of Medicine
Barrie Jo Kaiser, MD

Barrie Jo Kaiser, MD (2024-2025)

  • Program: Pediatric NeuroCritical Care
  • Medical School: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
  • Residency: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University

Past Fellows

First Position After Graduation

Delaney Dowd, MD (2023-2024)

Simon MacDonald, MD (2023-2024)

Lauren Reiter, MD (2022-2023)

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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