Past Fellows

Academic year 2022-2023

Aakash Bhargava, M.D.

Aakash Bhargava, M.D.

Dr. Aakash Bhargava was a headache and facial pain fellow in the 2022-2023 academic year and will be joining our program faculty in July 2023 as a headache specialist. Prior to fellowship, he completed his neurology residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and was Chief Resident in the 2021-2022 academic year.

Jayasai Jeyarajan, M.D.

Jayasai Jeyarajan, M.D.

Dr. Jayasai Jeyarajan was a headache and facial pain fellow in the 2022-2023 academic year and will be joining Geisinger Health as a headache specialist in 2023. Prior to fellowship, she completed her residency at the University of Toledo in Ohio.

Iman Moeini-Naghani, M.D.

Iman Moeini-Naghani, M.D.

Dr. Iman Moeini-Naghani was a headache and facial pain fellow in the 2022-2023 academic year. He will be attending Mount Sinai in New York to complete a fellowship in Interventional Radiology in July 2023. Prior to fellowship, he completed his neurology residency at George Washington University Hospital and was Chief Resident in the 2020-2021 academic year. He also completed a Vascular Neurology/Stroke Fellowship at John’s Hopkins University in 2021-2022.

Academic year 2021-2022

Peter Soh, M.D.

Peter Soh, M.D.

Dr. Peter Soh was a headache and facial pain fellow in the 2021-2022 academic year and will be joining the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Neurological Sciences in Omaha, NE to work as a headache specialist. Prior to fellowship, he completed his neurology residency at the University of South Alabama and was a Chief Resident in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Riya Luhar, D.O.

Riya Luhar, D.O.

Dr. Riya Luhar was a headache specialist and facial pain fellow in the 2021-2022 academic year and will be joining The Neurology Center of Southern California in La Jolla, CA to work as a headache specialist. Prior to fellowship, she completed her neurology residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and was Chief Resident in the 2020-2021 academic year.

Academic year 2020-2021

Maria Garcia-Ayala, M.D.

Maria Garcia-Ayala, M.D.

Dr. Garcia-Ayala was a headache and facial pain fellow in the 2020-2021 academic year and will be returning to Puerto Rico to become its second headache specialist. Prior to fellowship, she completed her neurology residency at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and was Chief Resident in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Chantel Strachan, M.D.

Chantel Strachan, M.D.

Dr. Strachan was a headache and facial pain fellow in the 2020-2021 academic year and will be joining Columbia Doctors in New York as a general internist and headache specialist in 2021. Prior to fellowship, she completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and was Chief Resident in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Academic year 2019-2020

Justin Beuthin, M.S., D.O.

Justin Beuthin, M.S., D.O.

Dr. Beuthin was a headache and facial pain fellow in 2019 and will be joining Spectrum Health in Western Michigan in 2020. Prior to fellowship, he completed his neurology residency at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Sandhya Mehla, M.B.B.S.

Sandhya Mehla, M.B.B.S.

Dr. Mehla was a headache specialist and facial pain fellow in 2019 and will be joining our headache program faculty in August 2020. Prior to fellowship, she completed a Vascular Neurology/Stroke Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts in 2018 and her neurology residency at the University of Buffalo.