Residents - Penn Medicine

PGY-1

Hasan Ahmad, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of California, Berkeley Email: hasan.ahmad@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Spinal cord injury, minimally invasive spine surgery, digital health

Michael Shost, MD

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: University of Michigan Email: michael.shost@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Spine Outcomes, Machine Learning, Medical Education

Addison Quinones, MD

Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Undergraduate School: Johns Hopkins University Email: addison.quinones@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: cortical reorganization, neuro-oncology, traumatic brain injury, complex spine/deformity, spinal cord injury

PGY-2

Timothy Darlington, MD, PhD

Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Case Western Reserve Email: timothy.darlington@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Functional/Epilepsy, motor control and motor dysfunction, brain machine interfaces

Canada Montgomery, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: University of Pittsburgh Email: canada.montgomery@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: pediatrics, concussion/traumatic brain injury, health disparities, health policy

Daniel Zhang, MD, PhD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Email: daniel.zhang@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Neuro-oncology, cancer genomics, tumor immunology, medical device development

PGY-3

Kamila Bond, MD, PhD

Medical School: Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Wellesley College Email: kamila.bond@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Pediatrics, neuro-oncology, precision medicine, machine learning

Yohannes Tsehay, MD

Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Wheaton College, Massachusetts Email: yohannes.tsehay@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Spine, spinal cord injury, neurosurgical device development, machine learning and artificial intelligence in neurosurgery, and cerebrovascular

Alex Vaz, MD, PhD

Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Duke University Email: alex.vaz@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Epilepsy, deep brain stimulation, cognition, memory, psychiatric disorders

PGY-4

Joshua Golubovsky, MD

Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Tufts University Email: joshua.golubovsky@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Spine oncology, biomedical engineering, and device design

Ben Jiahe Gu, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Yale University Email: Ben.Gu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Restorative neuroscience, neural tissue engineering

Sanjana Salwi, MD

Medical School: Vanderbilt University Undergraduate School: Columbia University Email: Sanjana.Salwi@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Resident Interests: Bioethics, health policy, healthcare delivery

PGY-5

Sonia Ajmera, MD

Medical School: University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Undergraduate School: Vanderbilt University Email: Sonia.Ajmera@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Neuro-oncology/skull base, pediatrics, cerberovascular, neurotrauma, health disparities, clinical outcomes

Rashad Jabarkheel, MD

Medical School: Stanford University Undergraduate School: Emory University Email: Rashad.Jabarkheel@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Open and Endovascular Neurosurgery

Samuel Tomlinson, MD

Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry Undergraduate School: Swarthmore College Email: Samuel.Tomlinson@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Functional/epilepsy, neuro-oncology, neurotrauma, cognitive neuroscience

PGY-6

John D. Arena, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: Johns Hopkins University Email: John.Arena@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Complex spine/deformity, neurotrauma, neuro-oncology, chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Yohannes G. Ghenbot, MD

Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate School: University of Maryland Email: Yohannes.Ghenbot@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Spine, complex spine/deformity, peripheral nerve, neuro-oncology/skull base, sensorimotor restoration for paralysis

Susanna D. Howard, MD

Medical School: University of Chicago, The Pritzker School of Medicine Undergraduate School: Bowdoin College Email: Susanna.Howard@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Stereotactic/functional, health disparities, clinical outcomes

PGY-7

Sabrina Heman-Ackah, MD, DPhil

Medical School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School: University of Oxford via NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program Undergraduate School: University of Pittsburgh Email: Sabrina.Heman-Ackah@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Neuro-oncology/skull base, computational neuroscience, bioengineering

Maria Punchak, MD

Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles Undergraduate School: Georgetown University Email: Maria.Punchak@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: spina bifida, craniofacial deformity, global neurosurgery, healthcare delivery, surgical innovation

Connor Wathen, MD

Medical School: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College Undergraduate School: University of Notre Dame Email: Connor.Wathen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Spine, complex spine/deformity, neurotrauma, spinal cord injury, stroke rehabilitation

Department of Neurosurgery Residents