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Neurocritical Care Fellowship
Alumni Where are they now By Lauren Koffman and Saef Izzy
Allie Massaro completed her neurology
residency and neurocritical care
fellowship at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania. She recently
accepted a position as a
neurointensivist at Swedish Cherry Hill
Hospital, in Seattle. Her current
research, presented at this year’s NCS
conference, focuses on the utilization of
palliative care in high grade gliomas.
She is looking forward to continuing
this project and other educational
endeavors while at Swedish. She loves
the interdisciplinary environment of the ICU and collaboration
between physician colleagues. She is excited to have her first few
months as an attending under her belt and is looking forward to
the journey ahead! Allie and her husband have been enjoying the
Pacific Northwest and spend their free time hiking, biking and
traveling.
Swarna Rajagopalan completed her
neurology residency at Temple
University Hospital in Philadelphia,
where she became chief resident with a
strong interest in critical care. She
decided she just couldn’t get enough of
the Philly food truck scene and she
went on to complete her neurocritical
care fellowship at the University of
Pennsylvania (which has the best food
trucks, at least she thinks so). She’s
currently an assistant professor of
neurology and neurosurgery at West
Virginia University managing the underserved population of the
Appalachia. She has a strong research interest in multimodal
neuromonitoring and physiologic data analysis. When she’s not in
the ICU, she’s jet-setting to a new country or exploring a new hike
with her puppy Moose.
Oladi Bentho completed his
undergraduate studies in biochemistry
and mathematics at Hamline University
followed by a two-year postbaccalaureate
research at the National
Institutes of Health. He obtained his
medical degree from Howard University
College of Medicine, followed by a
neurology residency at University
Hospital Case Medical Center and a
neurocritical care fellowship at the
Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine. Oladi is currently an assistant
professor of neurology at the University of Minnesota and is very
excited about participating in strokeNet trials. He looks forward to
the growth of the neurocritical care program at the University of
Minnesota. In his spare time, Oladi enjoys spending time with
family and loves Japanese animation.
Michael Reznik completed a neurology
residency at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center followed by a
fellowship in neurocritical care at
Columbia University and Weill Cornell
Medical Center. He says, “I’m lucky
enough to have joined the neurocritical
care division at Rhode Island Hospital
and the Alpert Medical School at Brown
University, where I’m an assistant
professor of neurology. So far, it’s been
everything I expected and more.
Overall, though the transition to being
an attending has been about as challenging as I expected, I feel
like everyone and everything here has only helped me make my
transition a smooth one. Meanwhile, I’m working on building on
some research ideas carried over from fellowship, namely studying
delirium after acute brain injury, and the neurological effects of
sepsis, and am working on a few projects at the moment that I’m
very excited about.” When he is not as work, Michael has been
enjoying his new home: “I’ve had a great time exploring New
England. Rhode Island is beautiful, especially the beaches!”