Graduates

2022

Garrett Banks, MD 
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Fellow, Baylor University

Justin Neira, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University


2021

Brian Gill, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University

Dominique Higgins, MD
Medical School: Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Current Position: Fellow, University of Miami


2020

Nikita Alexiades, MD
Medical School: University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Current Position: Fellow, University of Utah

Hannah Goldstein, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Fellow, Seattle Children’s Hospital


2019

Brett Youngerman, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University

Randy D’Amico, MD
Medical School: UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Current Position: Attending, Lennox Hill Hospital


2018

Jonathan Yun, MD
Medical School: UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgical Associates of New Jersey


2017

Hani Malone, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Scripps Clinic Torrey Pines

Robert McGovern, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, University of Minnesota Medical Center


2016

Jason Ellis, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Lenox Hill Hospital

Benjamin Kennedy, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Chuck Mikell, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Stony Brook University


2015

Adam Sonabend, MD
Medical School: National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Current Position: Attending, Northwestern University

Christopher Kellner, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Mount Sinai


2014

Zachary Hickman, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Mount Sinai

Brad Zacharia, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Penn State University


2013

Marc Otten, MD
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medicine
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University

Simon Hanft, MD
Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Current Position: Attending, Robert Wood Johnson

Elizabeth Fontana, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Nassau University Medical Center


2012

Paul Gigante, MD
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurological Associates of New Jersey

Raqeeb Haque, MD
Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Regional West Medical Center


2011

Andrew F. Ducruet, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Barrow Neurological Institute

Robert Morgan Stuart, MD
Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Roper St. Francis Healthcare

Omar N. Syed, MD
Medical School: NYU School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Metropolitan Neurosurgery Associates


2010

Ricardo J. Komotar, MD
Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Current Position: Attending, University of Miami

Gaetan Moise, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurological Associates of New Jersey

2009

Todd Hankinson, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, University of Colorado

Grace K. Mandigo, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University

Christopher E. Mandigo, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University

2008

William Mack, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, University of Southern California

Allen Waziri, MD
Medical School: University of Iowa College of Medicine
Current Position: CEO, ICE Neurosystems, Inc.

2007

Alfred Ogden, III, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgical Associates of New Jersey

J Mocco, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Vice-Chair of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai

2006

Anthony D’Ambrosio, MD
Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgical Associates of New Jersey

Patrick Senatus, MD
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Attending, University of Connecticut Health System

2005

John O’Toole, MD
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Attending, Rush University Medical Center

Ty Olson, MD
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgical Associates of New Jersey

2004

Peter D. Angevine, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University

Alan Lozier, MD
Medical School: UCLA School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, SSM Health

2003

Richard Anderson, MD
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgical Associates of New Jersey

Christopher J. Winfree, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Columbia University

2002

Judy Huang, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Vice-Chair of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University

Andrew Parsa, MD
Medical School: SUNY-Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Current Position: Chair of Neurosurgery, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Deceased

2001

Tanvir Choudhri, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, Mount Sinai

Amory Fiore, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Orthopedic and Neurosurgery Specialists

2000

Michael Kaiser, MD
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Neurosurgical Associates of New Jersey

Charles Prestigiacomo, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Attending, University of Cincinnati

1999

Charles Rich, MD
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Current Position, Neurosurgeon, Intermountain Healthcare

Theodore Schwartz, MD
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Attending, Weill Cornell Medicine

1998

Barry Birch, MD
Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Deceased

David Pincus, MD
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medicine
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Kaiser Permanente

1997

E. Sander Connolly, Jr., MD
Medical School: Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Current Position: Chair of Neurosurgery, Columbia University

Jeffrey Johnson, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Current Position: Neurosurgeon, Northwest Spine and Laser Surgery Center

 

For a complete list of our alumni, please email neurosurg_edu@cumc.columbia.edu.