Professional Advisors
The Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan’s Professional Advisors are individuals whose professional training, expertise, and interest in epilepsy qualify them to provide active policy guidance and technical assistance to the Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan. Professional Advisors work, along with our Clinical Ambassadors, to advance the mission of the Foundation and to serve the epilepsy community. The following are our current Professional Advisors.
January 2023 press release regarding new Professional Advisory Committee leadership
Shan Abbas, MD, FAES
Epileptologist
Corewell Health West
Mira Agrawal Cooper, MD
Primary Care Physician
Trinity Health IHA Medical Group
Ellen Air, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
Henry Ford Health
Iqbal Allarakhia, MD
Pediatric Epileptologist
Ascension Health
Eishi Asano, MD, PhD
Neurologist
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Erica Austin, DO
Epileptologist
Munson Healthcare Neurology
Maysaa Basha, MD
Epileptologist
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Nicholas Beimer, MD
Epileptologist
Michigan Medicine
Tyson Burghart, MD
Neurologist
Michigan State University
Omar Danoun, MD
Epileptologist
Henry Ford Health
Angela DeBastos, PhD
Pediatric Neuropsychologist
Beaumont Health System
Russ Derry, MPH
Michigan Medicine
Seth DeVries, MD
Pediatric Epileptologist
Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital
Sarah Dixon, MD
Pediatric Neurologist
Michigan Medicine
Erin Fedak Romanowski, DO
Pediatric Neurologist
Michigan Medicine, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Elizabeth Fischetti, R. EEG T
EEG Technologist
Corewell Health
Chloe Hill, MD, MS
Epileptologist
University of Michigan
Ahmad Kaddurah, MD
Pediatric Neurologist
Hurley Medical Center
Ryan Keating, DO
Neurologist
Michigan State University
Suad Khalil, MD
Pediatric Neurologist
Michigan State University
Aimee Luat, MD
Pediatric Epileptologist
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Laurie Lundblad, PsyD, PPCNP-BC, LP
Clinical Psychologist
Building Bridges Therapy Center
Brian MacFalda, DO, MBA
Neurologist
MyMichigan Health
Stephanie Maul, LMSW
Social Worker
Great Lakes Psychology Group
Anne Marie Michon, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Corewell Health – Beaumont Children’s Hospital
Christopher Parres, MD
Epileptologist
Beaumont Neuroscience Center
Elissa Patterson, PhD
Clinical Health Psychiatrist
Michigan Medicine
Laurel Reed, MD
Pediatric Neurologist
Michigan Medicine, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Robert Rothermel, Jr., PhD
Pediatric Psychology
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Beata Ruprecht, DO
Pediatric Epileptologist
Ascension St. John Children’s Hospital
Jason Schwalb, MD, FAANS, FACS, FAES
Neurosurgeon
Henry Ford Health
Alexandra Shaw, MD
Epileptologist
Corewell Health – Beaumont Children’s Hospital
Michael Staudt, MD
Neurosurgeon
Michigan Head and Spine Institute
Barbara Swartz, MD, PhD
Epileptologist
University of Michigan Health-West
Evan Tank, DO
Epileptologist
Corewell Health West
Ashleigh Terrell, MSN, RN, NP-C, CNRN
Nurse Practitioner
Corewell Health
Andrea Thomas, MA, LLP
Psychologist
Henry Ford Health
Vibhangini Wasade, MD, FAES
Epileptologist
Henry Ford Health
Michael Wolff, PsyD, ABN, ABPdN
Neuropsychologist
BRAINS
Julie Ziobro, MD, PhD
Pediatric Epileptologist
Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Deepti Zutshi, MD
Epileptologist
Detroit Medical Center
Amer Aboukasm, MD
Henry Ford Health System
Mira Agrawal Cooper, MD, FACP
Integrated Health Associates
Judy Ahn-Ewing, R.EEG/EP T., CNIM, CLTM, FASET
ABRET
Nikesh Ardeshna, MD
McLaren Medical Group
Eishi Asano, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Basel, Assaad, MD
St. Joseph Mercy Oakland
Tyson Burghardt, MD
Michigan State University
Jules Constantinou , MD
Henry Ford Medical Group
Seth DeVries, MD
Helen Devos Children’s Hospital
Daniel Fain, MD, FAAN
Spectrum Health
Erin Fedak Romanowski, DO
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Michelle Figueroa, MD
Wayne State University/DMC
Mohamad Aymon Haykal, MD, FAES
Beaumont Health System
Angel W. Hernandez, MD
Helen Devos Children’s Hospital
Velisa Johnson, PhD
Helen Devos Children’s Hospital
Sucheta Joshi ,MD, MS, FAES
Michigan Medicine
Ryan Keating, DO
Michigan State University
Aimee Luat, MD
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Rohit Marawar, MD
Wayne State University/DMC
Amy Martyanov, MD UP
Health System Marquette
Danielle Nolan, MD
Beaumont Children’s Hospital
Sanjay Patra, MD
Spectrum Health
Alexandra Shaw, MD
Beaumont Health System
Sandeep Sood, MD
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Olufemi Soyode, MD
Center for Adolescent and Child Neurology
Connie Sung, Ph.D, CRC, LPC
Michigan State University
Gerald Scott Winder, MD
Michigan Medicine
Michael Wolff, PsyD, ABPdN
BRAINS
Karol Zakalik, MD
Beaumont Health System
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The Professional Advisors are individuals whose professional training, expertise, and interest in epilepsy qualify them to provide active policy guidance and technical assistance to the Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan. Much of the work will be done by email and conference call. Professional Advisors will serve a two-year term with the ability to renew.