Examination Committees

Examination committee members are subject matter experts who are appointed by the subspecialty's sponsoring organization(s). 

Autonomic Disorders

  • Paola Sandroni, MD, PhD, Chair, Mayo Clinic
  • Elizabeth Coon, MD, Vice Chair, Mayo Clinic
  • Phillip A. Low, MD, FAAN, Mayo Clinic
  • Srikanth Muppidi, MD, Stanford Neuroscience Health Center
  • Peter Novak, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
  • Brian Olshansky, MD, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  • Lauren Phillips, MD, UT Southwestern Medical School
  • Satish R. Raj, MD, MSCI, Health Research Innovation Centre
  • Cyndya A. Shibao, MD, MSCI, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Howard Snapper, MD, WellStar Medical Group

Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry

  • Robin A. Hurley, MD, Chair, Wake Forest School of Medicine
  • James R. Bateman, III, MD, Wake Forest School of Medicine
  • Miles G. Cunningham, MD, PhD, McLean Hospital
  • Donald Eknoyan, MD, Kaiser Permanente
  • Colin J. Harrington, MD, Rhode Island Hospital
  • Claudia R. Padilla, MD, Baylor Scott & White AT&T Memory Center
  • Mary E. Quiceno, MD, University of North Texas Health Science Center
  • Michael Schrift, DO, MA, FANPA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Kyle Steinman, MD, MAS, University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital
  • Jonathan H. Woodcock, MD, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus

Clinical Neuromuscular Pathology

  • P. James B. Dyck, MD, FAAN, Chair, Mayo Clinic
  • Robert C. Bucelli, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Andrea M. Corse, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Mazen Mohammad Dimachkie, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center
  • Ahmed Mohamed Attia El-Dokla, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University  
  • Raghav Govindarajan, MD, University of Missouri
  • Shailani Mahajan, MD, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Michelle L. Mauermann, MD, Mayo Clinic
  • Margherita Milone, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic
  • Aziz Shaibani, MD, FACP, FAAN, Baylor College of Medicine

Headache Medicine

  • Jerry Swanson, MD, Chair, Mayo Clinic
  • Robert Kaniecki, MD, Vice-Chair, The Headache Center
  • Randolph Evans, MD, Houston Methodist
  • P. Christopher H. Gottschalk, MD, Yale Neurology Group
  • Christine Lay, MD, Women's College Hospital
  • Christopher B. Oakley, MD, Johns Hopkins University
  • Jelena M. Pavlovic, MD, PhD, Montefiore Headache Center
  • Lauren D. Strauss, DO, FAHS, Wake Forest Baptist Health
  • Stewart J. Tepper, MD, Dartmouth College

Neurocritical Care

  • Christos Lazardis, MD, Chair University of Chicago
  • Marin Darsie, MD, University of Wisconsin
  • Bradley Dengler, MD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  • Sayona John, MD, Rush University Medical Center
  • Lauren Koffman, DO, Rush University Medical Center
  • Richard R. Riker, MD, FCCM, Maine Medical Center
  • Ivan Rocha Ferreira da Silva, Rush University Medical Center
  • Michael J. Schneck, MD, Loyola University Medical Center
  • Robert Stevens, MD, FCCM, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Chethan P. Venkatasubba Rao, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

Neuroimaging

  • Joshua Peter Klein, MD, PhD, Chair, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Rebecca M. Sugg, MD, Vice Chair, University of South Alabama Medical Center
  • Carmel Armon, MD, MHS, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine
  • Jon Y. Choi, MD, PhD, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  • Alireza Faridar, MD, Houston Methodist Neurological Institute
  • Jerome Graber, MD, University of Washington Medical Center
  • Nazar Haidri, MD
  • Mohammad Obadah Nakawah, MD, Houston Methodist Neurological Institute
  • Gustavo Rodriguez, MD, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
  • Catherine A. Weymann-McKinney, MD, Guilford Neurologic Associates

Neuro-oncology

  • Howard Colman, MD, Chair, University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute
  • Minesh P. Mehta, MD, Vice Chair, University of Maryland Medical School 
  • Joy Ellen Burke, MD, University of Rochester
  • David M. Cachia, MD, Medical University of South Carolina
  • Christian Grommes, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Yasmine Khakoo, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Heather E. Leeper, MD, National Institute of Health
  • Douglas E. Ney, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Katherine B. Peters, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center
  • Roy E. Strowd, III, MD, MEd, Wake Forest School of Medicine

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