Meet the Fellows
Current Fellows

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 (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): 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 ColoradoJonathan 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.