Our Adult Neurology Residents

Class of 2028
Pictured above are [left to right]: Joana Petrescu, MD, PhD, William Adam Libling, DO, Emma Rodney-Handwerker, MD, Natalie Smith, MD, Logan Kugathasan, MD, Andrew Iannone, MD, PhD, Evan Hale, MD, Lucy Jia, MD, Caroline Ryan, MD, *Melanie Gershman, MD, Benjamin Williams, MD, and *Zahra Zhu, MD.
*Specializing in Child Neurology
We invite you to read this page of our website to learn more about our current neurology residents. Upon completion of their training, they will join a distinguished list of Columbia Neurology former trainees that includes many of the country's current leaders and innovators in the field.
Class of 2026
Cyrus Colah, MD
Medical School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Wendy Melissa Coronado, MD
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Irene Falk, MD, PhD
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Julio Gonzalez Maya, MD
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Shaobo Guan, MD
Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Alexandra Rabin, MD
Medical School: University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan School of Medicine
Gina Rhee, MD
Medical School: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Rebecca Tom, MD
Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Valerie Velez, MD
Medical School: State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
Dia Yang, MD
Medical School: Drexel University College of Medicine
Class of 2027
Rebecca Allen, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Molly Charney, MD
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Maria Diaz Ortiz, MD, PhD
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Justin Esposito, MD
Medical School: Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Karin Oh, MD
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medicine
Maya Pandit, MD
Medical School: New York Medical College
Gregory Spiropoulos, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Rongyi Sun, MD
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Janette Tang, MD
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Bert Vancura, MD, PhD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Class of 2028
Evan Hale, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Andrew Iannone, MD, PhD
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medicine
Lucy Jia, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Logan Kugathasan, MD
Medical School: Emory University, School of Medicine
William Adam Libling, DO
Medical School: Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine of Midwestern University
Joana Petrescu, MD, PhD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Emma Rodney-Handwerker, MD
Medical School: Zucker School of Medicine
Caroline Ryan, MD
Medical School: Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Natalie Smith, MD
Medical School: University of Washington School of Medicine
Benjamin Williams, MD
Medical School: Emory University School of Medicine