BCM Neurosurgery Residency alumni attend the annual Alumni Reception.
Dr. George L. Ehni, nationally recognized leader in neurosurgery, began the Neurosurgery Residency Program at 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ in 1958. Since then, the program has grown into one of the most notably respected neurosurgery training programs in the country. Following completion of training, many physicians have found positions within an academic setting, while many have entered into private practice. Additionally, a few of the alumni have furthered their career at 91¹ú²úÊÓƵ and have been hired as full-time faculty within the department. Below is a list of the alumni and their respected graduation date, spanning over 15 years. Take a look at where our alumni are practicing since graduation:
Alumni Listing by Decade
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Practice |
| Nisha Giridharan, M.D. | 2025 | Fellowship — Houston, TX |
| A. Basit Khan, M.D. | 2025 | Academic — Oklahoma City, OK |
| Ben Larkin, M.D. | 2025 | Attending — San Antonio, TX |
| Patrick Cotton, M.D. | 2024 | Attending — El Paso, TX |
| Tyler Lazaro, M.D. | 2024 | Fellowship — Seattle, WA |
| Marc Prablek, M.D. | 2024 | Fellowship — San Francisco, Calif. |
| Jeffrey Treiber, M.D. | 2024 | Fellowship — Houston, TX |
| James Bayley, M.D. | 2023 | Attending — Pittsburgh, PA |
| Caroline Hadley, M.D. | 2023 | Fellowship — Seattle, WA |
| Sungho Lee, M.D. | 2022 | Academic — Shreveport, LA |
| Melissa LoPresti, M.D. | 2022 | Academic — Rochester, NY |
| Terence Verla, M.D., M.P.H. | 2022 | Private — Orlando, FL |
| Nisha Gadgil, M.D. | 2021 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Patrick Karas, M.D. | 2021 | Attending — Galveston, TX |
| Kate Wagner, M.D. | 2021 | Private Practice — OR |
| Robert North, M.D. | 2020 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Visish Srinivasan, M.D. | 2020 | Academic — Philadelphia, PA |
| Aditya Vedantam, M.D. | 2020 | Academic — Milwaukee, WI |
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Practice |
| Pascal Zinn, M.D. | 2019 | Academic — Pittsburgh, PA |
| Eric Momin, M.D. | 2019 | Private — Grand Junction, CO |
| Rory Mayer, M.D. | 2019 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Venita Simpson, M.D. | 2019 | U.S. Navy — Portsmouth, VA |
| Jacob Cherian, M.D. | 2018 | Academic — Baltimore, MD |
| Anish Sen, M.D. | 2018 | Private — Loma Linda, CA |
| Sabih Effendi, M.D. | 2017 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Loyola Gressot, M.D. | 2017 | Private — Houston, TX |
| Jonathan Sellin, M.D. | 2017 | Private — Houston, TX |
| Jared Fridley, M.D. | 2016 | Academic — Providence, RI |
| Ali Jalali, M.D., Ph.D. | 2016 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| G. Duemani Reddy, M.D., Ph.D. | 2016 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Bartley Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D. | 2015 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Vikas Rao, M.D. | 2015 | Private — Mission Viejo, CA |
| Jonathan Thomas, M.D. | 2015 | Private — Houston, TX |
| George Al Shamy, M.D. | 2014 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Akash Patel, M.D.* | 2014 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Deshdeepak Sahni, M.D. | 2014 | Private — Austin, TX |
| Baraa Al-Hafez, M.D. | 2013 | Attending — Lufkin, TX |
| Tarek Abuelem, M.D. | 2012 | Academic — Little Rock, AR |
| William Humphries, M.D., M.P.H. | 2012 | Affiliate — Marietta, GA |
| Ryan Kitagawa, M.D. | 2012 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Benjamin Fox, M.D. | 2011 | Affiliate — Clearwater, FL |
| Daniel Fahim, M.D. | 2011 | Academic — Royal Oak, MI |
| Roukoz Chamoun, M.D. | 2011 | Academic — Kansas City, KS |
| Gareth Adams, M.D., Ph.D.* | 2010 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Joshua Chern, M.D., Ph.D. | 2010 | Academic — Atlanta, GA |
| Krishna B. Satyan, M.D. | 2010 | Private — Plano, TX |
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Practice |
| Joseph L. Martinez, M.D. | 2009 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Vikram V. Nayar, M.D. | 2009 | Academic — Washington, DC |
| Ashwin Viswanathan, M.D.* | 2009 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Mark J. Dannenbaum, M.D. | 2008 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Andrew C. Roeser, M.D. | 2008 | Private — Houston, TX |
| Sheila Smitherman, M.D. | 2008 | Private — Olympia, WA |
| Justin M. Brown, M.D. | 2007 | Attending — Boston, MA |
| Richard B. Meyrat, M.D. | 2007 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Brad A. Thomas, M.D. | 2007 | Private — Little Rock, AR |
| Daniel J. Boedeker, M.D. | 2006 | Private — Tulsa, OK |
| Bharat Guthikonda, M.D. | 2006 | Academic — Shreveport, LA |
| Vikram A. Kumar, M.D. | 2006 | Private — Phoenix, AZ |
| Jeremy Denning, M.D. | 2005 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Naina Gross, M.D. | 2005 | Academic — Oklahoma City, OK |
| E. Lee Nelson, M.D. | 2004 | Private — Boulder, CO |
| Abdolreza Siadati, M.D. | 2004 | Private — Fort Worth, TX |
| Jean-Paul Wolinsky, M.D. | 2004 | Academic — Chicago, IL |
| John Dickerson, M.D. | 2003 | Private — Wichita, KS |
| Shankar Gopinath, M.D.* | 2003 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Paul Holman, M.D. | 2003 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Peter Alexander, M.D. | 2002 | Richmond, VA |
| Jonathan B. Gentry, M.D. | 2002 | Private — Amarillo, TX |
| Christopher Kalhorn, M.D. | 2002 | Academic — Washington, DC |
| Jason Garber, M.D. | 2001 | Private — Las Vegas, NV |
| Gery Hsu, M.D. | 2001 | Private — Coffeyville, KS |
| Christopher Michael, M.D. | 2001 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Raymond W. Grundmeyer, III, M.D. | 2000 | Private — Wichita, KS |
| Robert J. Jackson, M.D. | 2000 | Private — San Diego, CA |
| Regan Gallaher, M.D. | 2000 | Attending — Conway, ARtd> |
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Practice |
| Lynn F. Fitzgerlad, M.D. | 1999 | Private — Round Rock, TX |
| Bala K. Giri, M.D. | 1999 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Daniel Yoshor, M.D. | 1999 | Academic — Philadelphia, PA |
| J. Michael Desaloms, M.D. | 1998 | Private — Plano, TX |
| Christopher S. Rumana, M.D. | 1998 | Private — Tallahassee, FL |
| Christopher R. Tomaras, M.D. | 1998 | Private — Alpharetta, GA |
| Mark Hnilica, M.D. | 1997 | Private — Winston-Salem, NC |
| Miquelanglo Perez-Cruet, M.D. | 1997 | Academic — Royal Oak, MI |
| Edward Akeyson, M.D. | 1996 | Private — Alcoa, TN |
| Thomas Chow, M.D. | 1996 | Private — Longview, TX |
| Cheryl Muszynski, M.D. | 1995 | Academic — Milwaukee, WI |
| Todd Trask, M.D. | 1995 | Academic — Houston, TX |
| Daniel Wecht, M.D. | 1995 | Academic — Pittsburgh, PA |
| Stuart Crutchfield, M.D. | 1994 | Private — Tyler, TX |
| William Rambo, M.D. | 1994 | Private — Columbia, SC |
| Daniel Robertson, M.D. | 1994 | Private — Ocala, FL |
| Philip Azordegan, M.D. | 1993 | Private — Flowood, MS |
| Pedro Mario Caram, M.D. | 1993 | Private — El Paso, TX |
| Ziya Gokaslan, M.D. | 1993 | Academic — Providence, RI |
| Duncan Fischer, M.D. | 1992 | Attending — San Angelo, TX |
| Mark Krinock, M.D. | 1992 | Attending — Kalamazoo, MI |
| Theo Mellion, Ph.D., M.D. | 1992 | Private — Wichita, KS |
| Ian Ira Thomas Armstrong, M.D. | 1991 | Attending — Los Angeles, CA |
| Kailash Kumar Narayan, M.D. | 1991 | Private — Columbus, OH |
| Max R. Steuer, M.D. | 1991 | Private — Atlanta, GA |
| Neil A. Feldstein, M.D. | 1990 | Academic — New York, NY |
| Jeffrey J. Segal, J.D. | 1990 | Private — Greensboro, NC |
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Practice |
| Randy O. Kritzer | 1989 | Private — Greensboro, NC |
| Richard K. Simpson, Jr. | 1989 | Retired — Houston, TX |
| Benjamin H. Venger, M.D.+ | 1989 | |
| Richard George, M.D. | 1988 | Private — Lubbock, TX |
| Lance Perling, M.D.+ | 1988 | |
| Steven Schneider, M.D. | 1988 | Private — New Hyde Park, NY |
| Hatem Megahed, M.D. | 1987 | Attending — San Antonio, TX |
| David L. Morris, M.D. | 1987 | Attending — Austin, TX |
| Jean Wickersham, M.D. | 1987 | Attending — San Diego, CA |
| Ira Abbott, M.D. | 1986 | Attending — Bronx, NY |
| Robert Bray, M.D. | 1986 | Private — Newport Beach, CA |
| David Cech, M.D. | 1985 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Richard Gray, M.D. | 1985 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Jeff Heitkamp, M.D. | 1985 | Private — Arlington, TX |
| Gerald Marlin, M.D. | 1985 | Private — Dallas, TX |
| Teresa Montelongo-de Jong, MD. | 1984 | |
| Thomas J. Mims, M.D.+ | 1983 | |
| Rapha Fredman, M.D.+ | 1982 | |
| John Margolis, M.D. | 1982 | Attending — Waterville, ME |
| Raymond Poelstra, M.D. | 1982 | Attending — Dayton, OH |
| Gary Dennis, M.D. | 1981 | Attending — Frisco, TX |
| Mario Sertich, M.D. | 1981 | Attending — Sheffield Village, OH |
| Alfonso Aldama-Luebbert, M.D. | 1980 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Name | Graduation Year | Current Practice |
| Rudolph Cartwright, M.D. | 1979 | Retired |
| Joel Steinberg, M.D., Ph.D. | 1979 | Academic — Salem, NJ |
| Benjamin Benner, M.D. | 1978 | Private — Tulsa, OK |
| Michael Dorsen, M.D.+ | 1978 | |
| Richard Harper, M.D. | 1978 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Allen Jospeh, M.D. | 1978 | Private — Baton Rouge, LA |
| David Wray, M.D. | 1978 | |
| Norman Peters, M.D. | 1977 | Private — Scituate, RI |
| Ross Sedler, M.D. | 1977 | Private — Hot Springs, AR |
| Edward C. Murphy, M.D. | 1976 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Warren D. Parker, M.D. | 1975 | Attending — Houston, TX |
| Sean Fitzgerald, M.D.+ | 1974 |
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The Ehni Fund supports the Department's Residency Program and covers written board examination fees each year for approximately ten residents. The fund also covers surgical loupes, lead aprons, textbooks, and ravel expenses for residents whose abstracts are accepted for presentation.