Residency Program Alumni

Graduated 2025
John Andrews, MD

Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Thomas Wozny, MD

Spine Fellowship, University of Miami

John Yue, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

Graduated 2024
Winward Choy, MD

Spine Fellowship, Barrow Neurological Institute, Arizona

Alex Lu, MD

Neuroendovascular Intervention Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis

Jacob Young, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

Graduated 2023
Graduated 2022
John Burke, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma

Taemin Oh, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University 

Kunal Raygor, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Graduated 2021
Andrew Chan, MD

Co-Director of Minimally Invasive Scoliosis Surgery and Director of Neurosurgical Spine Research, Columbia University

Michael Safaee, MD

Assistant Professor Of Clinical Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California

Ethan Winkler, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

Graduated 2020
Darryl Lau, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, New York University

Stephen Magill, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University - Feinberg School of Medicine

Caleb Rutledge, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, New York University

Graduated 2018
Graduated 2017
Graduated 2016
Tene Cage MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Stanford University

Seunggu Han MD

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, Stanford University

Dario Englot MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University

Graduated 2015
Graduated 2014
Graduated 2013
Matthew Potts MD

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University

Michael Oh MD, PhD

Neurosurgeon, Moody Brain and Spine Institute at Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Phiroz Tarapore MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

Graduated 2012
Graduated 2011
Mark Richardson MD, PhD

Director of Functional Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Michael Sughrue, MD

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Omniscient Neurotechnology

Graduated 2010
Graduated 2009
Graduated 2008
Frank L. Acosta, Jr. MD

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Keck Medical Center of USC

Daniel A. Lim MD, PhD

Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

Rene Sanchez-Mejia MD

Neurosurgeon, Virgina Mason Health System, Seattle, WA

Graduated 2007
Kurtis Auguste MD

Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

John Chi MD, MPH

Director of Neurosurgical Spinal Cancer, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Justin Smith MD, PhD

Professor of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

Graduated 2006
Graduated 2005
Graduated 2004
Graduated 2003
Graduated 2002
Graduated 2001
Graduated 2000
Daniel M. Lieberman MD

Faculty, Phoenix Spine Center

Scott P. Wachhorst MD

Neurosurgeon, Sutter Health, Mountain View, CA

Graduated 1999
Graduated 1998
Graduated 1997
Graduated 1996
Adam Mamelak MD

Director, Functional Neurosurgery Program, Cedars-Sinai

Sanjoy Sundaresan MD

Texoma Pain and Spine Center, Wichita Falls, TX

Dong Kim MD

Professor, University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Graduated 1995
Michon Morita MD

Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu

Sherry Taylor MD, PhD

Private Practice, Marysville, CA

Graduated 1994
Jeffrey McDonald MD, PhD

Private Practice, Coeur D'Alene, ID

Patricia Ann Mancuso MD

Lone Star Neurosurgery, San Antonio, TX

Graduated 1993
William Obana MD

Chief, Neurosurgery Division, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI

Graduated 1992
Samuel Ciricillo MD

Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

Graduated 1991
Thomas Mampalam MD

Sutter Health, Pinole, CA

James Baumgartner MD

Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Eric Omsberg MD

Private Practice, Waterville, ME

Jacob Rachlin MD

Instructor in Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Graduated 1990
Joshua Bederson MD

Professor and Vice-Chairman, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Graduated 1989
Stanley Barnwell MD

Associate Professor, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

Donald Ross MD

Medford Neurological and Spine Clinic, Medford, OR

Graduated 1988
Jonathan Hodes MD

Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Louisville, KY

Brian Andrews MD

Pacific Neurosurgical Associates, San Francisco, CA

Graduated 1987
Robert Levy MD, PhD

Professor, Northwestern University School of Medicine

Griffith Harsh, IV MD, MBA

Professor, Stanford University Medical Center

Graduated 1986
Graduated 1985
Graduated 1984
Neil Martin MD

Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles Medical Center

David Baskin MD

The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas

Graduated 1983
Greg Zorman MD

Neurosurgery Chief, Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, FL

Stephen Powers MD

Staff Physician, Penn State Medical Center

Graduated 1982
Donald Wright MD

Private Practice, Washington, DC

James Earl Boggan MD

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis

Graduated 1981
Alexander MacKay MD

Private Practice, Spokane, WA

George Prioleau MD

 

Graduated 1980
Craig Yorke, Jr. MD

Private Practice, Topeka, KS

Isabelle Richmond MD

Private Practice, Norfolk, VA

Graduated 1979
Mark Rosenblum MD

Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Henry Ford Medical Center, Detroit, MI

Philip Gutin MD

Chief, Neurosurgical Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Graduated 1978
Raymond Lagger MD

Private Practice, Mountain View, CA

Hoi-Sang U MD

Professor, University of California, San Diego

Graduated 1977
Lawrence Dempsey MD

Private Practice, Anchorage, AK

Robert Spetzler MD

Emeritus Chair, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ

Graduated 1975
Lawrence Pitts MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF 

Hal Hankinson MD

Neurosurgical Associates, Albuquerque, NM

Graduated 1974
Graduated 1973
Jerome Stovall King MD

Private Practice, Pittsboro, NC

Graduated 1972
E. Fletcher Eyster MD

Associate Physician, UCSF

Graduated 1971
Ernest Bates MD

American Shared Hospital Services, San Francisco, CA

Philip Weinstein MD

Professor, UCSF

Graduated 1970
Timothy Altenhoffen MD
 
Louis Nelson MD

CNS Center Neurosurgery Medical Group, Modesto, CA

Graduated 1969
Earl Olsen, MD
 
Robert Chow MD

Private Practice, Piedmont, CA

Graduated 1968
Jay Levy MD

Private Practice, Napa, CA

Jacob Mathis MD

 

Information not currently available for residents graduated before 1968.