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Neurology Faculty and Staff


Because of our dedicated faculty and departmental staff, the Department of Neurology, Wayne State University remains a leader in the diagnosis, treatment, and research of neurological conditions.

To learn more about our faculty, including their interests and specialties, click on the faculty member's name.


Faculty Member Subspecialty Interest(s) Appointment Phone Address
Gyula Acsadi, MD, PhD Neuromuscular disease (313) 745-5788 Children's Hospital of Michigan
3901 Beaubien Blvd
Detroit, MI 48201
Joshua Adler, MD, PhD Neuropathic pain syndromes; headache neurodegenerative diseases (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Thomas Babb, PhD Brain development, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, focal epilepsies, and proteomics (313) 745-5788 Division of Child Neurology
Department of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Michigan
3901 Beaubien St.
Detroit, MI 48201
Geoffrey Barger, MD Neuro-oncology; primary brain tumors; metastatic brain tumors   8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
David Benjamins, MD Learning disabilities; attention deficit hyperactive disorder; cerebral palsy; autism   Children's Hospital of Michigan
3901 Beaubien Blvd
Detroit, MI 48201

Children's Hospital of Michigan - Macomb
28755 Schoenherr Rd, Ste. 100
Warren, MI 48093
Joyce Benjamins, PhD Glial biology; myelin formation and maintenance; protection mechanisms in oligodendroglia; calcium regulation in glia; cytokines and glia, myelin galactolipids   2248 Elliman Bldg
421 E. Canfield Ave
Detroit, MI 48201
Randall Benson, MD Behavioral neurology including degenerative dementias, aphasia, neuropsychiatric disorders, stroke; functional neuroimaging; CNS disorders affecting gait, balance, and motor function; traumatic brain injury (313) 966-9385 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Seemant Chaturvedi, MD Director, Stroke Program; carotid artery stenosis; intracranial atherosclerosis; stroke in young adults; stroke and hypercoagulable states (313) 745-8937 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Harry Chugani, MD Epilepsy, epilepsy surgery; autism; Tourette syndrome (313) 745-5788 Children's Hospital of Michigan
3901 Beaubien Blvd
Detroit, MI 48201
William Coplin, MD Stroke; neurotrauma; emergency and critical care; subarachnoid hemorrhage; intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage Referrals: (313) 745-0203 8C University Health Center
4201 S. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Paula Dore-Duffy, PhD Blood brain barrier and neurovascular diseases; angiogenesis; injury responses; neurotrauma; multiple sclerosis and related diseases; neurologic complications of collagen-vascular diseases; vasculitis; tumors of the brain   3127 Elliman Bldg
421 E Canfield Ave
Detroit, MI 48201
M. Maher Fakhouri, MD Headache; pain medicine and EMG (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Darren Fuerst, PhD Epilepsy; dementia; head injury, learning disabilities (313) 745-8953 4J University Health Center
4201 S. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
James Garbern, MD, PhD Hereditary disorders of the nervous system and muscles; hereditary disorders of myelin; Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease; mitochondrial diseases; Huntington disease; spinocerebellar ataxias; muscular dystrophy; multiple sclerosis and related diseases (800) 966-9644 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
jgarbern@med.wayne.edu
Edwin George, MD, PhD Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders; botulinum toxin therapy; neuropathies and peripheral nerve diseases; spinal cord injury and disease; neurotoxicology (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Alexander Gow, PhD Molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease; function of intercellular junctions in CNS myelin, testis and cochlea; regulation of axoglial junctions in CNS myelin    
A.H.M. Mabbubul Huq, MD, PhD, FRCPC Neurogenetic disorders; metabolic diseases; autism; neurocutaneous syndrome (313) 745-5788 Children's Hospital of Michigan
3901 Beaubien Blvd
Detroit, MI 48201
Bradley Jacobs, MD, MS Stroke risk factors; neuroepidemiology; homocysteinemia; hypercoagulable states (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
John Kamholz, MD, PhD Multiple sclerosis and related diseases; leukodystrophies; neurogenetics   8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Omar Khan, MD Director, Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, Detroit Medical Center; multiple sclerosis and related diseases; autoimmune diseases; neurologic complications of connective tissue disorders; CNS lupus; CNS vasculitis; progressive forms of multiple sclerosis (313) 966-5068 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Karen Krajewski, MS, CGC Neurogenetics; inherited peripheral neuropathies; Huntington disease, inherited ataxia; presymptomatic testing for inherited neurogenetic disorders (313) 577-8317 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Kraus, Jacqueline, MD, PhD Neuro-Critical Care, neurovascular disease, stroke, aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, vasospasm (313) 754-1540 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Richard Lewis, MD Director, Clinical Neurophysiology (Holden Lab); neuromuscular diseases; electromyography; peripheral neuropathy; myasthenia gravis; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; neurosarcoidosis Appointments: (313) 745-4275
Nurse: (313) 745-8937
8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Jun Li, MD, PhD Peripheral nerve diseases; muscle diseases; motor neuron diseases; myasthenia gravis; electromyography and skin biopsy for evaluation of peripheral nerve diseases. (313) 745-4275 8C University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Robert Lisak, MD Multiple sclerosis and related diseases; myasthenia gravis; inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies; inflammatorymyopathies; neurologic complications of collagen-vascular diseases; vasculitis (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Jeffrey Loeb, MD, PhD Epilepsy; clinical neurophysiology (EEG) and epilepsy surgery (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Kenneth Maiese, MD Cerebrovasculature ischemia and related diseases; central nervous system degenerative diseases (313) 745-4275 8C-1 University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Marianne Majkowski, DO Child Development (313) 745-5788 Children's Hospital of Michigan
3901 Beaubien Blvd
Detroit, MI 48201
Michael Nigro, DO Neuromuscular diseases; complex epilepsy and degenerative diseases (313) 745-5788 Children's Hospital of Michigan
3901 Beaubien Blvd
Detroit, MI 48201
Samia Ragheb, PhD Multiple sclerosis; myasthenia gravis, neuroimmunology; cellular and molecular immune mechanism   3128 Elliman Bldg
421 E. Canfield Ave
Detroit, MI 48201
James Selwa, MD, MBA Practice limited to electromyography; neuromuscular disorders; inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies, myasthenia gravis; carpal tunnel syndrome; radiculopathies; plexopathies and other disorders of the peripheral nervous system EMG Appointments:
(313) 745-8328
8C University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Aash Shah,  MD Medical Director, Electroneurodiagnostic Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Michigan; epilepsy; surgical treatment of epilepsy; clinical neurophysiology; neurological complications of Pregnancy (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Jagdish Shah, MD Director, WSU/DMC Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program; epilepsy; clinical neurophysiology; adult & pediatric epilepsy surgery; neurosarcoidosis (313) 745-4275 8C University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Michael Shy, MD Inherited peripheral neuropathies; other neuromuscular disorders   8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Dusanka Skundric, MD, PhD Multiple sclerosis and other organ specific autoimmune diseases; demyelinating neuropathies; diabetic polyneuropathy; dysmyelinating diseases; Guillian-Barre’ disease; inflammatory and neoplastic diseases of the nervous system; neurodevelopment, remyelination and regeneration of the nervous system; neuro-endocrine-immune interactions in pathogenesis and regulation of neurologic disease   421 E. Canfield
2226 Elliman Bldg
Detroit, MI 48201
Alexandros Tselis, MD, PhD Multiple sclerosis and related diseases; viral encephalitis; infectious diseases of the nervous system; HIV and its neurological complications (313) 745-4275 8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Gregory Van Stavern, MD Ocular myasthenia gravis; hereditary optic neuropathies and mitochondrial diseases; optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis (313) 577-5129 Kresge Eye Institute
4717 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Renee Van Stavern, MD Cerebrovascular disease and stroke (313) 745-4275 8C University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201
Craig Watson, MD, PhD Director, WSU/Detroit Medical Center Comprehensive Epilepsy Program; epilepsy; hippocampal sclerosis; lesional epilepsy; neuroimaging in epilepsy, especially quantitative volumetric MRI of medial temporal structures Holden EEG Lab (313) 745-8328
Appointments: (313) 745-4275
Epilepsy Nurse Coordinator: (313) 745-1416
8A University Health Center
4201 St. Antoine
Detroit, MI 48201