UCNS Announces New Interventional Neurology Diplomates

12-5-2024 The United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS) is pleased to announce the names of the physicians who passed the 2024 UCNS Headache Medicine Certification Examination.

Demonstrating their expert knowledge in Headache Medicine, 126 physicians passed the subspecialty’s UCNS certification examination and now hold the distinction of being UCNS Diplomates. There are currently 859 physician Diplomates certified in Headache Medicine.

Congratulations to the following new diplomates certified in Headache Medicine:

Ahmed Eid Sobhy Abdelkader, MD  Guy Greco, MD  Zachary Pardieck, MD 
Jessica Abreu-Garcia, MD  Mitra Haeri, MD  Aishwarya Pareek, MD 
Edmond Ahdoot, MD  Ian Hakkinen, MBBS  Minal Patel, DO 
Naveed Ahmed, MD, FAAN, FAHA  James Harb, MD  Meghan Piccinin, DO 
Sawsan Alabbad, MD  Elise Hennessy, MD  Mark Pierce, MD 
Abdulaziz Almaghraby, MBBS  Wilson Heredia Nunez, MD  Susie Platt, DO 
Christopher Charles Anderson, MD  Dana Ionel, DO  Sarah E. Robertson, MD 
Evan Ariano, MD  Courtney Rachaelle Iser, MD  Gage Michael Rodriguez, MD 
Razan Asaad, MD  John Kyle Jenkins, MD, MPH  Tahoora Sadoughi, MD 
Patrick Asselin, MD  Jayasai Jeyarajan, MD  Johnny Alexander Sanabria-Lopez, MD 
Anjaneya Shankar Madhav Bandatmakur, MD  Yuan Ji, MD  Shayna Yvonne Sanguinetti, MD 
Barlas Benkli, MD  Suja I. Johnkutty, MD  Harshika Satyarthi, MD 
Aakash Bhargava, MD
Brian Johnson, DO  Jessica Saunders, MD 
Kyra Beth Blatt, MD  Kavitha Tirumalasetti Karnik, MD  Rachel Sehgal, MD 
Matthew Bloch, MD  Manraj Khosla, MD  Alexey Shikuev, MD 
Ryan Bowe, MD  Eonjung Angeline, Kim, MD  Lauren H. Shin, MD 
Michelle Bravo, MD  Yeo Won Kim, MD  Risako Shirane, MD, MSc 
Edward N. Chai, MD  Olivia Kingsford, DO  Sana Siddiqi, MD 
Monica Chan, MD  Valeriya Klats, MD  Divya Sivakumar, DO 
Nan Cheng, MD  Ishani Kumar, MD  Daniel Stephen Smoots, MD 
Sushma Chennubhotla, MD  Erika Kristine Lan, DO  Michael D. Snyder, MD 
Murray Choueka, MD  Jonathan Lee, DO  Stephanie Jo Steel, MD 
Liam, Gerhardt, Clark, MD  Diana Z. Li, MD  Stacey Wade Steeves, MD 
Hunter Collins, MD  Lucia Hong Liao, MD
Ye Su, DO 
Shawn Michael Conger-Love, MD  Maksym Marek, MD  Himanshu Suri, MD 
Ana Isabel Coronado, MD  Philip Ahola Maynard, MD  Melinda Ann Thiam, MD 
Andree-Michelle Cortel-LeBlanc, MD, FRCPC  Brittany Mays, MD  Istvan Tomaschek, MD 
Samira Dabiri Zanjani, MD  Ashley Miller, DO  Konstantinos Tourlas, MD 
Andrew Dawson, DO  Christina Mills, MD  Fatima Traore, MD 
Moises Dominguez, MD  Karla Minota, MD  Megan Trenz, DO 
Lee Dresser, MD  Monique Maria Montenegro, MD  Jack Tsao, MD, DPhil 
Mohamed Kamel Elzawahry, MD  Lisa Moore, DO  Imad Uddin, MD 
Mina B. Essak, DO  Nathalia Moraes Figueiredo, MD  Jacob Van Orman, MD 
Danyelle Evans, MD  Robert C. Myers, DO  Amrita-Amanda Devi Vuppala, MD 
Rachel Evans, MD  Arathi Nandyala, MD  Victor Sam Wang, MD 
Molly Fensterwald, MD  Katrina Nayak, MD  Anthony Williamson, MD, PhD 
Alexander Eric Fong, MD  Adil Faiz Niaz, DO  Mustafa Yehya, MD 
Lauren Marie Fragapane, MD  Sinifunanya Nwaobi-Petersen, MD  Zilfah Younus, MD 
Frederick G. Freitag, DO, FAHS  Peter Joseph O'Carroll, MD  Muhammad Ismail Khalid Yousaf, MD 
Ankita Ghosh, MD  Anna Odermann, MD  Leena Youssefian, MD 
Paul Gong, MD  Patricia Arlene Olson, MD, PhD  Tresa Elizabeth Zacharias, MD 
Maria Pia Grant Tejada, MD  Steven Palmer, MD  Harshul Zaveri, MD 

Physicians in the United States and Canada who meet the eligibility requirements may apply for certification in Headache Medicine. The next Headache Medicine certification examination will take place in 2026. A complete list of all diplomates certified in Headache Medicine, UCNS accredited training programs, and information about Headache Medicine certification can be found at www.ucns.org.