Our Team
Our Center has grown to comprise a phenomenal, diverse and talented team of more than 70 core staff, research partners and trainees. We have assembled leading scientists and healthcare providers from across myriad disciplines and healthcare models (tertiary care to primary care) that are at the forefront of clinical research and translational efforts focused on accelerating screening, diagnosing, treating and preventing prenatal-onset brain disorders to improve child health and well-being for life.
Director
Clinical Research Program Manager
Associate Chief, Medical and Academic Affairs
Research Director, Imaging and Analytics
Interim Director of Operations
Clinical Research
Program Manager
Science and Communications Manager
Operations Manager
Kushal Kapse
Research Manager
Catherine J. Stoodley
Director, Cerebellar Cognition and Learning (CerCL) Lab
Anjola Akintoba
Research Technician III
Omar Almasri
Research Technician III
Kevin M. Cook
Research Faculty
(Assistant Professor)
Joe Dust
Research Assistant
Nahla M.H. Elsaid
Research Faculty
(Assistant Professor)
Rose Haley
Clinical Research Coordinator
Ousmane Harakoye
Operations Lead
Keyi Huang
Project Associate
Steve C.N. Hui
Research Faculty
(Assistant Professor)
Diamond Izzard
Clinical Research Coordinator
Miriam Kerns
Senior Staff Assistant
Jung-Hoon Kim
Research Faculty
(Assistant Professor)
Marissa Lee
Staff Scientist I
Lara Liszka
Clinical Research
Occupational Therapist
Lei Liu
Research Technician III
Charles Mbadugha
Senior Applications Analyst
Caitlin E. McDermott
Clinical Research Coordinator
María G. Mora Álvarez
Staff Scientist II
Julius S. Ngwa
Research Faculty
(Assistant Professor)
Katherine M. Ottolini
Attending Neonatologist
Yingshi Ouyang
Research Faculty
(Assistant Professor)
Renee Pen
Clinical Research Coordinator
Kendell Pewitt
Clinical Research Coordinator
Kayalvizhi Ravichandran
Project Associate
Sathish Kumar Ravi Shankar
R&D DevOps Engineer
Adina Schwartz
Clinical Research Coordinator
Mai Tram Vo
Research Associate
Bailey Widener
Clinical Research
Occupational Therapist
Katherine L. Wisner
Perinatal Psychiatrist
Yao Wu
Research Faculty
(Assistant Professor)
Aaron Zeman
Data Analyst
Ellen Bartolini
Clinical Psychologist
Maariya Bassa
Medical Director for Quality, Unity Health Care
Sudeepta K. Basu
Attending Neonatologist
Dorothy I. Bulas
Chief, Pediatric Radiology
Patrick S. Burke
Ophthalmologist
Siobhan Burke
Specialty Director of OB/GYN Services, Unity Health Care
Jenhao (Jacob) Cheng
Consulting Biostatistician
Venkata (Chaitanya) Chirumamilla
Staff Scientist
Kelsey Christoffel
Prenatal-Neonatal Neurologist
Mary T. Donofrio
VanMetre Companies Endowed Chair, Fetal Cardiology
Daniel A. Donoho
Co-Director, Pituitary and
Skull Base Program
Adré J. du Plessis
Division Chief, Prenatal and
Transitional Pediatrics
Nancy D. Gaba
Chair, GWU Department of
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Theiline T. Gborkorquellie
Assistant Director, Pediatric
Residency Program
Lynn R. Goldman
Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dean Emerita
Rathinaswamy Bhavanandhan
(RB) Govindan
Director, Advanced Physiological
Signals Processing Laboratory
Suma Bhat Hoffman
Associate Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program
Jennifer Keller
GWU Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Brieanne “Brie” Kidd Kohrt
Psicóloga Clínica
Zarir P. Khademian, M.D.
Neuroradiologist
Youssef A. Kousa
Director, Prenatal Infection
and Neurodevelopmental
Genetics Consortium
Anita N. Krishnan
Director, Fetal Cardiac
Innovations Lab
Melissa A. O’Connell Liggett
Developmental Psychologist
Judyta M. Loomis
Radiologist
Jose Francisco Molto Garcia, M.D.
Neuroradiologist
Sarah B. Mulkey
Prenatal and Neonatal Neurologist
Jonathan G. Murnick
Neuroradiologist
Steven J. Ralston
Division Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, GW Medical Faculty Associates
Mary E. Revenis
Neonatologist
Erin M. Sadler
Co-Director,
Mood Disorders Program
Mariam M. Said
Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care, Reston Hospital Center
Jason W. Schroeder
Neuroradiologist
Lamia Soghier
Associate Division Chief
for NICU Operations
Kyle Spagnolo
Neuroradiologist
Mariana Aokalani
T32 Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Srikanth Damera
Neonatal-Perinatal
Medicine Fellow
Intisar Diwani
Graduate Student
Desiree D’Souza
Child Neurology Fellow
Elan Donnellan
T32 Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Sally M. Stoyell
Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Kyra Twohy
Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Susan Weiner
Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Akua Frempong
Summer METEOR Student Intern
Bridget Nelson
W.T. Gill Summer Intern
Katherine Parrack
Intern
Adina Schwartz
Intern
Amber Beilfuss
Intern
Julianne Cruz
Intern
Shaunae' Farmer
Intern
Isabel Gothelf
Intern
Jessica Harris
Intern
Grace Hoover
W.T. Gill Summer Intern
Loree Louis
Intern
Mikayla Mason
Intern
Navya Pandula
Intern
Krithika Surapaneni
Intern
Nicholas Zuk
Intern
Khadijah Aslam
Intern
Arnav Bandam
Intern
Ava Canfield
Intern
Carrie Cheung
Intern
Aastha Doshi
Intern
Amanda Ramlogan
Intern
Aaryan Shah
Intern
Rishika Singh
Intern
Rebecca Tegiacchi
Intern
Arionas Tripathi
Intern
Laura Abella
Intern
ANILA AHMED
Intern
Ariunzaya Amgalan
Intern
Simone Burchard
Intern
Lily Carroll
Intern
Gia Carusone
Intern
Sophia Czopek
Intern
Donna Dadkhoo
Intern
Hannah Duncanson
Intern
Vedavalli Ganesan
Intern
Sophie Gengler
Intern
Hailey Gauck
Intern
Smriti Gupta
Intern
JT Howard
Intern
Zahra Iqbal
Intern
Manuela Jimenez
Intern
Allen Min Jo
Intern
Chris Jose
Intern
ABIGAIL KOEPPEL
Intern
BRITTANY LESSIN
Intern
Andrew Lim
Intern
Victoria Lyou
Intern
Elizabeth Matsiyevskiy
Intern
Emily Miller
Intern
Dhruv Patel
Intern
RAYYAAN POTTER
Intern
Ashwin Rajesh
Intern
Geetika Reichmann
Intern
CAROLINE REZE
Intern
Kristianne Rulona
Intern
Alexander Sabel
Intern
Aden Selassie
Intern
Chloe Sitrin
Intern
Emma Somer
Intern
Gracie Spurney
Intern
Marissa Steinberg
Intern
Nathan Suh
Intern
Amaya Tatum
Intern
Prarek Thakker
Intern
Annika Townsend
Intern
Maia Yarborough
Intern