The clinical neurophysiology laboratory within the Department of Neurology offers a one-year neurophysiology fellowship.

Accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, this program provides the training needed for fellows to take the Added Qualification in Clinical Neurophysiology Exam offered by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  

The fellowship involves in-depth training in both electroencephalogram (EEG) for epilepsy and electromyography (EMG) for neuromuscular disorders in a laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment. The fellow may choose to split the year evenly between the two areas or spend nine months with one subspecialty and three months with the other.   

Fellows also receive training in evoked potentials, intraoperative monitoring, long-term video/EEG seizure monitoring and, if interested, polysomnography. This year of training exposes fellows to a broad spectrum of patients, including those in the adult and pediatric seizure clinics, neuromuscular clinics and the muscular dystrophy clinic, one of 150 Muscular Dystrophy Association Care Centers in the country. A wide range of research opportunities are also available, including investigational drug trials.

VCU Health is a Level 4 Epilepsy center accredited by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. We offer comprehensive neurophysiology assessments that include routine and long-term EEG monitoring, including our EMU on site and at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center. We offer specialty assessments such as dense array EEG as well as all modalities of intracranial recording for epilepsy surgery including stereo EEG with our ROSA system.

Click on the links to learn more about our Division of Epilepsy and Division of Neuromuscular Medicine and their faculty.

Applicants must have successfully completed an ACGME-accredited neurology or child neurology residency program, an AOA-approved neurology or child neurology residency program, a neurology or child neurology program with ACGME International Advanced Speciality Accreditaion, or a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada-accredited or College of Family Physicians of Canada-accredited neurology or child neurology residency program located in Canada. Applicants must also have successfully passed through USMLE Step 3 or COMLEX Level 3.

Any applicants unable to begin training by July 1^st of the appointment year must notify the program coordinator and program director before their interview. Approval for off-cycle training will be granted by the GME office on a case by case basis.

This fellowship program participates in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), and applications will only be accepted through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).

Applications are closed for the July 2025 appointment. Applications for the July 2026 appointment will open in Fall of 2024.

If you have additional questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Kelsey Schneider, Fellowship Program Coordinator
Email: Kelsey.Schneider@vcuhealth.org

 

Jennifer Haynes, MD, Program Director
Email: Jennifer.Haynes@vcuhealth.org

If you have additional questions, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Kelsey Schneider, Fellowship Program Coordinator
Email: Kelsey.Schneider@vcuhealth.org

 

Lawrence Morton, MD, Program Director & Chair
Email: Lawrence.Morton@vcuhealth.org

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2021-2022

Neurologist at Jersey Shore University Medical Center

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Leila Ghaffari, DO

2021-2022

Neurologist at Bons Secours

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Umar Alam, MD, DO

2019-2020

Neurologist at VA Medical Center

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Michael Hossack, MD

2018-2019

Neurologist with U.S. Air Force

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Ewa M. Way, MD

2017-2018

Professor and Associate Program Director of Child Neurology at VCU

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Robert Baldwin, MD

2016-2017

Neurologist at Riverside Neurology and Sleep Specialists

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Fermina Pirmohamed, MD

2015-2016

Neurologist at Pinellas Medical Associates

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Kenichiro Ono, DO

2014-2015

Professor of Adult Neurology at VCU and Chief of Neurology at H.H. McGuire VAMC

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Thuy Ahn Vu, MD

2014-2015

Pediatric Neurologist at INOVA