Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology Fellowship Program
Program Description
This one-year UCNS accredited fellowship is designed to give the trainee a fundamental background in neuropsychiatry, providing requisite skills and resources that will allow the fellow to practice independently as a neuropsychiatrist.
The fellowship is open to both psychiatry and neurology residents who have fulfilled their ACGME requirements in their respective fields. Electives will vary depending on the background of the selected candidate, i.e., the curriculum for a prospective fellow from psychiatric training would emphasize fundamental neurological basic knowledge and the curriculum for a prospective fellow from neurological training would emphasize fundamental psychiatric basic knowledge.
Our fellowship training is active and not paused due to COVID-19. Positions for 2021-2022 have been filled. Applications are open for 2022-2023.
Curriculum
Clinical Rotations
Our one-year curriculum gives the fellows the opportunity to rotate on multiple services at Stanford Hospital and the Palo Alto VA Health Care System. Many of the current rotations (subject to change) include:
- Neuropsychiatry Psychopharmacology Outpatient Clinic
- Neuropsychiatry Consult Liaison
- Neurobehavioral Clinic
- Psychotherapy for Neuropsychiatric Disorders (Individual and Group Psychotherapy)
- Interventional Psychiatry Clinic
For interested fellows, they will have the opportunity to learn and practice different Interventional psychiatry methods in-depth including Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) through 6-months rotations - Rotations in either Outpatient Neurology Clinics and Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (for applicants with psychiatry background) or Psychiatry Clinics (for applicants with neurology background) depending on the applicant's background. The curriculum is flexible and can provide emphasis in areas of particular research interests.
Research
Fellows will be given the opportunity to participate in any number of new and ongoing clinical research studies. They are encouraged to develop their own pilot project and to present data at national meetings.
Didactics
Fellows participate in weekly neuropsychiatry didactics that includes didactic teaching, dedicated case conferences, journal clubs and boards review course. They also participate in weekly psychiatry gradrounds and neurology didactics and grandrounds. In addition, didactic teachings are offered as integral parts of the varied multidisciplinary patient care teams.
Program Leadership
Faculty Members
Neuropsychiatry and Neurobehavioral Services
John Barry, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
and by Courtesy, of Neurology
Neuropsychiatry fellowship Director
Sepideh N. Bajestan, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Associate Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Director
Kim Bullock, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director- Neurobehavioral Clinic
Juliana Lockman, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Neuropsychology
Penelope Zeifert, PhD
Neuropsychologist
Chief of the Neuropsychology Service
Lauren Drag, PhD, ABPP
Neuropsychologist
Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
Robert Fisher, MD, PhD
Maslah Saul MD Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of Stanford Comprehensive Epilepsy Program
Kevin Graber, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of Outpatient Epilepsy Clinic
Kimford J. Meador, MD
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
Josef Parvizi, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director of Stanford Program for Intractable Epilepsy
Scheherazade Le, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
The Stanford Center for Memory Disorders
Frank M. Longo, MD, PhD
George E. and Lucy Becker Professor in Medicine
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Sharon Sha, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Michael Greicius, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Stanford Center for Memory Disorders
Associate Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Victor W. Henderson, MD, MS
Professor of Health Research and Policy
Professor of Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Huntingnton’s Disease Clinic
Sharon Sha, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
The Stanford Movement Disorders Center
Kathleen Poston, MD, MS
Assistant Professor Of Neurology
and, By Courtesy, of Neurosurgery
Autonomic Disorders
Safwan Jaradeh, MD
Professor of Neurology
and, By Courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Srikanth Muppidi, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Neuromuscular Disorders
Sarada Sakamuri, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Joanna Dearlove, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Safwan Jaradeh, MD
Professor of Neurology
and, By Courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Srikanth Muppidi, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
Les Dorfman, MD
Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Emeritus
May Han, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Headache Clinic
Robert Cowan, MD, FAAN
Clinical Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
and, By Courtesy of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Nada Hindiyeh, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Stroke/Neurocritical Care
Kara Flavin, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Neil Schwartz, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
NeurosurgeryProgram Director for the Stanford Neurology Residency Program
Neuroradiology
Christine Kim, MD
Clinical Instructor
Radiology
Concussion and Traumatic Brain Injury
Jamshid Ghajar, MD, PhD, FACS
Clinical Professor
Neurosurgery
Viet Nguyen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Team Pictures
Neuropsychiatry team presenting at APA 's 2019 annual meeting in San Francisco.
Drs. Juliana Lockman, John Barry and Sepideh Bajestan (left to right) with Neuropsychiatry fellowship graduate Dr. Sarah Tymchuk (middle)
Stanford Neuropsychiatry family’s reunion during American Neuropsychiatric Association’s 2019 annual meeting in Chicago:
- Faculty (Sepideh Bajestan and Juliana Lockman)
- Graduates (Ariela Karasov, Jesse Adams, Nazlie Faridi, Sarah Tymchuk)
- Current fellows in 2019 (Aryan Fotros, Luciana Giambarberi)
- Upcoming fellows (Ian Kratter, Michel Medina)
Neuropsychiatry fellow ( in 2018-2019) Dr. Luciana Giambarberi and Dr. Bajestan making an educational video about the neuroscience of Functional Neurological Disorders with the help of Medicine EdTech team at Stanford University.
Videos
Get to know the department and Stanford Medicine
Centers at Stanford University Hospital and the VA Palo Alto that have been involved in our fellowship training
Resources for Opportunities in Research and Additional Research Training
Stipends and Benefits
Stipends 2020-2021
Year |
Annual |
Per Month |
I |
$69,763.20 |
$5,813.49 |
II |
$73,299.20 |
$6,108.15 |
III |
$78,852.80 |
$6,570.94 |
IV |
$83,324.80 |
$6,943.60 |
V |
$88,545.60 |
$7,378.66 |
VI |
$92,476.80 |
$7,706.25 |
VII |
$97,656.00 |
$8,137.84 |
VIII |
$102,107.20 |
$8,508.77 |
For more information, please visit the GME Office site.
Benefits
Annual educational allowance $2,000* |
Paid in November providing, all required HealthStream and EPIC/LINKS modules are completed by house staff's assigned deadline |
Cell phone allowance $1,000* |
Automatically added to paycheck in July |
Food allowance $10 per day (shifts of 12 hours or longer for clinical rotations only at SHC & LPCH)* |
Payments made on last paycheck of each month |
Housing stipend $7,200 per year (paid as $600 monthly)*+ |
Automatically paid on 1st paycheck of each month |
Medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability insurance provided |
Eligible to participate on house staff's hire date |
Moving allowance (new hires only) $3,000* |
Automatically added to a paycheck in August |
1% annual bonus based on completion of a Quality Improvement Project* |
Automatically paid at the end of each academic year in June |
Cost of initial CA MD license and renewals |
Paid upon reimbursement submission for academic year expense occurrence |
Cost of initial DEA and renewals |
Paid upon reimbursement submission for academic yearexpense occurrence |
Cost of USMLE Part Ill for Interns |
Paid upon reimbursement submission for academic year expense occurrence |
* Please see House Staff Policies and Procedures for full details.
Subject to appropriate taxes