Recent Alumni --- What they are doing now…A chronological listing of submissions to Alumni News; news of what Alumni are doing, career updates, awards and honors, and events in Alumni lives that they would like to share with others.

Khalid Abbed 2006 -

Brian Hoh (2005) - is now on the Staff of the University of Florida Gainsville, putting his outstanding talents as a vascular neurosurgeon to good use.

Joseph S. Neimat 2004 - has begun a fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery with Dr. Andres Lozano of the University of Toronto.

As part of the fellowship he is investigating the differential effect of brain stimulation parameters on movement elements in Parkinson's patients.

William T. Curry, Jr. 2004 - joined the staff at MGH upon completion of his residency.

Dr. Curry joined the Brain Tumor Center specializing in Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Brain, Spine and Spinal Cord Tumors, Neurofibromatosis, Immunotherapy for Brain Tumors.

Steven N. Kalkanis 2003 - is Physician-in-Charge, Division of Neurosurgery-Beaumont Hospital; and Senior Investigator, Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at the Henry Ford Health System. His clinical specialty is Neuro-oncology, brain and spinal cord tumors. His current research involves Cell-based therapies for malignant brain tumors. Dr. Kalkanis and his wife, Laurel, are the proud parents of a baby boy, Nicholas.

Edward R. Smith, 2003 - completed a Fellowship in pediatric neurosurgery at Children's Hospital Boston with Dr. Michael Scott 2003-2004; He joined the staff at Children's Hospital Boston in July 2004 and received an appointment to Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Smith's research area is Matrix metalloproteinases in neurosurgical disease, angiogenesis and his clinical specialty is Pediatric neurosurgery, tumor, cerebrovascular, neuroendoscopy.

Sephideh Amin-hanjani 2001 - is Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003-2004, returning 2005 after a fellowship in Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Fellowship, Barrow Neurological Institute, 2004-2005. Her research interests are Revascularization for vertebrobasilar disease, computer modeling of cerebral blood flow, carotid disease and cognitive outcomes.