Faculty

Meet your Pediatric Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program faculty members:

Brian Appavu, MD

• Pediatric neurocritical care, pediatric epilepsy and pediatric neurosonology; medical management of critically ill children with neurological conditions, epilepsy and ICU EEG interpretation, multimodality neuromonitoring, and transcranial doppler ultrasound interpretation and performance.

Tara Mangum, DO

• Pediatric neurocritical care, stroke, pediatric neurosonology; medical management of critically ill children with neurological conditions, management of pediatric stroke, and transcranial doppler ultrasound interpretation and performance.

Varina Boerwinkle, MD

• Medical director of neurocritical care; medical management of critically ill children with neurologic conditions, resting state fMRI interpretation.

P. David Adelson, MD

• Director of Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital; neurosurgical management of critically ill children.

Todd Abruzzo, MD

• Director of neurointerventional radiology, neurointerventional management of pediatric stroke and cerebral vascular anomalies.

Additional faculty:

Pediatric Neuroradiology; Advanced Neuroimaging

• John Curran, MD
• Patricia Cornejo, MD
• Jeff Miller, MD

ICU EEG monitoring

• John F. Kerrigan, MD
• Randa Jarrar, MD
• Matthew Troester, MD
• Korwyn Williams, MD
• Angus Wilfong, MD

Pediatric Intensive Care

• Anthony Willyerd, MD
• Erin Kreml, MD
• Vashal Gunnala, MD

Cardiac Intensive Care

• Paul Bakerman, MD
• Shilpa Vellore, MD
• Sharad Menon, MD

Pediatric Neurosurgery

• Ruth Bristol, MD
• David Shafron, MD
• Tarryn Bragg, MD
• Jamal McClendon, MD

Hematology

• Christine Knoll, MD
• Sanjay Shah, MD

Neonatal Intensive Care

• Laura Ulms, MD

Pediatric Interventional Radiology

• Robin Kaye, MD
• Carrie Schaefer, MD

Additional training is offered by the adult neurology faculty in pediatric neurocritical care and stroke at Dignity Health, Barrow Neurological Institute and Mayo Clinic Scottsdale.