Thomas J. Wilson, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurosurgery

Dr. Thomas J. Wilson was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, earning his MD with highest distinction. While a medical student, he was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship and spent a year in the lab of Dr. Rakesh Singh at the University of Nebraska. He was also elected to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed his residency training in neurological surgery at the University of Michigan and was mentored by Dr. Lynda Yang and Dr. John McGillicuddy in peripheral nerve surgery. Following his residency, he completed a fellowship in peripheral nerve surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, working with Dr. Robert Spinner. He is now Clinical Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Peripheral Nerve Surgery at Stanford University. He also holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, with focused certificates in Clinical Trials and Health Finance and Management. His research interests include peripheral nerve outcomes research, clinical trials advancing options for patients with peripheral nerve pathologies and spinal cord injuries, and translational research focused on improved imaging techniques to assist in diagnosing nerve pain and other peripheral nerve conditions. His clinical practice encompasses the treatment of all peripheral nerve pathologies, including entrapment neuropathies, nerve tumors, nerve injuries (including brachial plexus injuries, upper and lower extremity nerve injuries), and nerve pain. Dr. Wilson enjoys working in multi-disciplinary teams to solve complex problems of the peripheral nervous system. His wife, Dr. Monique Wilson, is a practicing dermatologist in the Bay Area.

Sarada Sakamuri, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Sarada Sakamuri specializes in neuromuscular medicine. Her interests are peripheral nerve injury, neuromuscular ultrasound, EMG/NCS, and neurogenetic disorders. Her other passion is graduate medical education.

She graduated from Rutgers University with Phi Beta Kappa distinction and a degree in psychology. She attended Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ, where she led multiple community service and medical education activities and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies. She moved to the Bay Area to pursue neurology residency at Stanford, where she later served as chief resident. She then completed two years of fellowship in EMG/Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Medicine and research training at Forbes Norris MDA/ALS Research Center.

Dr. Sakamuri's passion is neuromuscular medicine, with a focus on peripheral nerve traumas and disorders. She is Co-Director of the Center for Peripheral Nerve Surgery along with neurosurgeon Dr. Thomas J. Wilson. She performs advanced evaluations of peripheral nerve conditions by integrating nerve and muscle ultrasound and neurophysiologic testing (EMG/NCS) at the bedside. She has advanced training in nerve and muscle ultrasound, and sits on the Neuromuscular Ultrasound Committee of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM).

She is board-certified in Neurology and in Neuromuscular disorders by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). She is certified in EMG/NCS by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ABEM), and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Neuromuscular Ultrasound.

Dr. Sakamuri's other passion is graduate medical education. She is the Program Director of the Stanford Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship and Associate Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology/EMG Fellowship, with a total of five ACGME-accredited positions filled by extremely bright and talented fellows. She supervises a weekly neurology resident continuity clinic and enjoys teaching medical students and neurology and physiatry residents and fellows. She been awarded the Lysia S. Forno Award for outstanding contributions to resident teaching.

John W. Day, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director, Stanford Neuromuscular Division and Clinics

Dr. Day has over 25 years of experience in diagnosing, treating and supporting patients with neuromuscular diseases.  He is involved in ongoing research defining causes, diagnosis and novel treatments of genetic neuromuscular disorders.  Prior to his arrival at Stanford in 2011, Dr. Day directed the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Center at University of Minnesota.  Dr. Day graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his Residency and Fellowship at University of California Medical School in San Francisco.  Dr. Day is Board Certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Day serves as an advisor to many scientific committees researching neuromuscular diseases, including NIH’s Advisory Committees on Muscular Dystrophy and Muscular Dystrophy research.

His areas of interest include most areas of nerve and muscle diseases, in particular, muscular dystrophies, motor neuron diseases, Ataxia and Myasthenia Gravis.

Yuen So, MD, PhD
Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Emeritus
Vice Chair, Clinical Services, Department of Neurology

Dr. So has over 30 years of experience in the diagnosis and management of nerve and muscle diseases. He received his Ph.D. From Rockefeller University, and his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine.  He completed his Neurology Residency and Electrophysiology Fellowship training at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. Dr. So held faculty positions at University of California at San Francisco and Oregon Health Sciences University before joining Stanford in 1999, where he is currently Professor of Neurology and Chief of the Neurology Clinics.

Dr. So is board certified in Neurology with added Qualification in Neuromuscular Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and in Electrodiagnostic Medicine by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. His areas of interest include neuropathies, nerve injuries, and other areas of neuromuscular diseases.

Dr. So is passionate about teaching. He directed the Neurology Residency Training at Stanford for 11 years. He won the L. Forno Award for Teaching Excellence in the Neurology Department in 1999. He was nominated by Stanford medical students in 2005 for the AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award. He has also been included in Best Doctors list for many years. He has served on the board of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM), and has led the development of practice guidelines in both AANEM and the American Academy of Neurology.

Safwan Jaradeh, MD
Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Director, Autonomic Disorders Program

Dr. Jaradeh's clinical interests include autonomic disorders, small fiber neuropathies and the development of effective methods of testing and treating these disorders. Prior work has focused on small fiber painful and autonomic neuropathies; syndromes of orthostatic intolerance and syncope; gastrointestinal motility dysfunction; cyclic vomiting; protected Gastroesophageal Reflux; non-allergic rhinitis syndromes; and the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and normal or abnormal sleep. Additional areas of interest include the neurology of phonation and swallowing disorders, and peripheral nerve injury and repair.

Dr. Jaradeh is board certified in Clinical Neurophysiology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and board certified in Electrodiagnostic Medicine by the American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Prior to his arrival at Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Dr. Jaradeh was the Chair and a professor at Medical College of Wisconsin from 2000 to 2011.

Neelam Goyal, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Neelam Goyal earned her medical degree at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. Subsequently, she completed her neurology residency, which included a chief year, followed by a fellowship year in neurophysiology, specializing in neuromuscular disorders and EMG nerve conduction studies at Stanford University Medical Hospital. After graduating, she joined the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine in 2012. She is currently a Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences in the division of Neuromuscular Medicine.

Dr. Goyal focuses on the diagnosis, management, and electrophysiological testing of neuromuscular disorders, including SFEMG. Her expertise extends to immune-mediated disorders such as myositis, myasthenia gravis, CIDP, and vasculitis. Her research interests involve monitoring and managing the short and long-term toxicity of immunosuppressive agents. She is actively involved in a grant-supported project investigating steroid toxicity in patients with myasthenia gravis.

Currently, she serves as the Wellbeing Co-Director for the Neurology Department, working on a grant-supported project aimed at mitigating the adverse impact of work on personal relationships. Additionally, she acts as a communication coach for the Neurology residency program. Dr. Goyal is involved in various committees within Stanford, including the Clinical Assistant Professor Appointment and Promotions Committee and Health Information Management Committee. She also participates in multiple committees within the American Association of Neuromuscular and Neurodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM). Notably, she serves as the chair of the Scientific Committee for the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America and provides advisory support on various steering committees related to Myasthenia Gravis Therapeutics.

Ana Carolina Tesi Rocha, MD
Clinical Professor, Pediatric Neurology & Neurological Sciences

After moving to the United States from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Tesi Rocha received her second medical degree from Children’s National Medical Center. She continued her work at Children’s National as an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, was the co-director of the MDA clinic, as well as the director of the neuromuscular program and electrodiagnostic lab.  Dr. Tesi Rocha specializes in general child neurology with a focus on pediatric neuromuscular disorders.  Her clinical research focuses on SMA, muscular dystrophies and congenital myopathies.

Srikanth Muppidi, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Muppidi is a clinical professor in the autonomic and neuromuscular divisions. After finishing medical school in South India, he obtained MRCP (London) before moving to the US and completed neurology residency training at Thomas Jefferson University and neuromuscular fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in clinical care and diagnostic testing for various autonomic disorders and neuromuscular disorders. His clinical interests include various types of neuropathies, autonomic disorders and Myasthenia Gravis. His research interests include treatment and outcome measures in Myasthenia Gravis, methods to detect early autonomic impairment in diabetes and diagnosis and management of immune/neurodegenerative causes of autonomic failure.

Dr. Muppidi is board certified in Neurology and in Neuromuscular disorders by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is also board certified in Autonomic Disorders by the UCNS Board of American Autonomic Society.

Prior to his arrival at Stanford Hospital and Clinics in November 2013, Dr. Muppidi was an Assistant Professor in Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics at UT Southwestern Medical Center since 2009.

Jacinda Sampson, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences 

Dr. Jacinda Sampson received her MD and a PhD in biochemistry from University of Alabama at Birmingham, and completed her neurology residency and neurogenetics fellowship at the University of Utah. She served at Columbia University Medical Center prior to joining Stanford University Medical Center in 2015. Her areas of interest include myotonic dystrophies, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and neurogenetic disorders such as neurofibromatosis, hereditary spastic paraparesis, spinocerebellar ataxia, among others. She is interested in clinical trials for treatment of neurogenetic disorders, and in the clinical application of next-generation genomic sequencing to genetic testing.

Carly Siskind, MS, LCGC
Senior Genetic Counselor, Clinical Associate Professor – Affiliated

Before joining the neuromuscular team in 2011, Carly Siskind worked in neurogenetics at Wayne State University in Detroit. She sees patients both at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Ms. Siskind is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology (Affiliated), with her main research focus being Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Ms. Siskind obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan with a major in Biology, minor in Global Change and a teaching certificate for high school science. She obtained her Master’s degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. She was board certified by the National Society of Genetic Counselors in 2009 and licensed by the state of California in 2011.

Hannes Vogel, MD
Professor, Pathology and of Pediatrics (Pediatric Genetics)

Hannes Vogel is Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics at Stanford University where he has served as Director of Neuropathology since 2002. His background in medical training also includes board certification in Pediatrics. Dr. Vogel completed a residency in Anatomic Pathology at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, followed by a neuropathology fellowship at Stanford University under Dikran Horoupian. He returned to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX where he became the Director of Neuropathology at Texas Children’s Hospital before returning to Stanford. His principle interests include mitochondrial diseases, muscle and nerve pathology, brain tumors and the toxic effects of therapy, and forensic neuropathology.

Donald Born, MD
Clinical Professor, Pathology

I am a physician scientist with long time interest in the neurosciences. My training and career related to peripheral nerve pathology spans approximately 35 years. As early as graduate school I was involved with elements of the peripheral nervous system (cranial nerve VIII in particular). My neuropathology training at University of Washington exposed me to nationally and internationally prominent mentors. After sharing the service responsibilities for interpreting nerve biopsies as a young faculty, I eventually supervised the neuromuscular pathology service. While my interests over the years are diverse, I have recent publications related to peripheral nerve pathology and I have retained my passion for nerve biopsy pathology since my moving to Stanford in 2013. 

Jaime R. López, MD
Professor, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Director, Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring Program

My clinical interests are in the areas of Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring (IONM), clinical neurophysiology, electromyopgraphy and in the use of botulinum toxins in the treatment of neurologic disorders. Our IOM group's research is in the development of new and innovative techniques for monitoring the nervous system during surgical and endovascular procedures and how these alter surgical management and patient outcomes. I am also active in formulating national IOM practice guidelines.

Charles Cho, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Cho has over a decade of experience in diagnostic electrophysiological testing and treatment of neuromuscular and pain disorders.  Dr. Cho, a Clinical Professor of Neurology, joined Stanford Hospital in 2001 after his fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He completed his Residency at Stanford University School of Medicine in 2000.

Dr. Cho’s Clinical research is focused on diagnosing, preventing, and treating peripheral nerve and muscle disorders both in the intraoperative setting as well as outpatient clinics. We apply the full suite of neurophysiological tests to help with monitoring, specifically the nerve conduction studies, somatosensory evoked potentials, motor evoked potentials and electromyography. 

Scheherazade Le, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Scheherazade Le is a Neurologist with subspecialty training in Epilepsy/Electroencephalography (EEG) and Intra-operative Neuromonitoring (IONM). She is the Director of epilepsy specialty clinics for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Alliance Clinic and the Stanford Autoimmune Encephalitis Clinic (AEC) focusing on Immune-Mediated Epilepsy/Encephalitis. Clinical research interests and publications include biosensors and devices in epilepsy, intracranial neurophysiology, innovative therapies for epilepsy such as laser ablation, immune etiologies for epilepsy and autoimmune encephalitis, and novel IONM techniques. She is an award-winning teacher who is also devoted to trainee medical education.

Leslie H. Lee, MD
Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Dr. Lee’s academic interests include clinical neurophysiology, intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM), general neurology, stroke, and headache disorders. Ongoing research projects include the study of critical IONM changes that predict reversible central and peripheral ischemia, and new methodologies to identify neural structures at risk perioperatively and optimize patient outcomes.