There are more than 50 faculty members involved in the teaching of residents within all of our rotation sites, including the Hartford HealthCare Ayer Neuroscience Institute, the UConn Health Department of Neurology, Connecticut Children’s, Hospital for Special Care, and Hartford Neurology, LLC.
Professor and Chairman
L John Greenfield, Jr, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Neurology, UConn Health
Professor and Chair, UConn Health Brain & Spine Institute
Academic Chair, Hartford Hospital
Specialty: Epilepsy
Mark Alberts, M.D., FAHA
Physician-in-Chief, Ayer Neuroscience Institute, Hartford HealthCare
Specialty: Cerebrovascular Disease
Residency Program Director
Erica A. Schuyler, M.D., FAAN, FANA
Hartford HealthCare
Residency Program Director
Specialty: Epilepsy, EEG
Other Program Leadership
Matthew Jaffa, D.O.
Hartford Hospital Site Director
Hartford HealthCare
Specialty: Neurocritical Care
Jose Montes-Rivera, M.D.
Associate Program Director, Neurology Residency
Neurology Residency Program Site Director, UConn Health
Specialty: Epilepsy
Karan Tarasaria, M.D.
Residency Curriculum Specialist
Hartford HealthCare
Specialty: Vascular Neurology
Chindhuri Selvadurai, M.D.
Neurology Clerkship Director
UConn Health
Specialty: Epilepsy/EEG
Marie Carl Eugene, D.O.
Clinical Principal
UConn Health
Specialty: Epilepsy/EEG
Teaching Faculty by Specialty
Cerebrovascular Disease
Isaac E. Silverman, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare/Hartford Neurology, LLC
Ajay Tunguturi, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare
Epilepsy/EEG
Yan Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
Hartford HealthCare
Movement Disorders
Bernardo Rodrigues, M.D., Ph.D.
UConn Health
Neurocritical Care
Neuro-Immunology
Brian Wong, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare
Neurointerventional Radiology
Neuromuscular Disease/EMG
Amanda L. Hernandez, M.D., Ph.D.
UConn Health
Sports Neurology
Headache
Neuro-Ophthalmology
Neuro-Oncology
Dementia/Cognitive Disorders
Cherish Smith, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare
Neuro-Hospitalist
Steven Bondi, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare/Hartford Neurology, LLC
Mohammed El-Hunjul, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare
Vladislav Zayas, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare
Child Neurology
Neurosurgery
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Emeritus Faculty
Pasquale Finelli, M.D.
Hartford HealthCare
Specialty: Information Retrieval in Clinical Neurosciences
Leslie Wolfson, M.D.
UConn Health
Specialty: Geriatric Neurology; Balance and Gait Disorders