Neurocritical Care Fellowship Faculty & Fellows Faculty & Fellows Home Education Department Programs Neurology: Education & Training > Fellowship Programs > Neurocritical Care Fellowship Neurology: Education & Training > Fellowship Programs > Neurocritical Care Fellowship > Faculty & Fellows Meet Our Faculty & Fellows Program Leadership Sara Stern-Nezer, MD, MPH Fellowship Program Director Patrick Chen, MD Associate Fellowship Program Director Clinical Faculty Yama Akbari, MD, PhD Research Interests: Consciousness, coma, neurological prognosis after cardiac arrest, noninvasive monitoring Jefferson Chen, MD Research Interests: Neuromonitoring, minimally invasive hematoma evacuation Patrick Chen, MD Research Interests: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Cyrus Dastur, MD Research Interests: Medical ethics Lenny Groysman, MD Research Interests: Stem cell therapy Jeff Paullus, PhD Sara Stern-Nezer, MD, MPH Research Interests: Medical education, quality improvement Wengui Yu, MD, PhD Research Interests: Stroke, neurointervention for stroke Fellows Current Fellows Sonja Darwish, MD (2023–25) Walter Valesky, MD (2022–24) Past Fellows Ryan Filmore, MD Yale EEG fellowship after UCI; currently Stroke Medical Director at Novant Health, Charlotte, NC Conrad Manning, DO Neurointensivist, Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside, CA Sahar Osman, MD Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA Daniel Ro, MD Neurointensivist, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA Andrew Shnure, DO Neurointerventional fellowship at UCI after NCC; now neurointerventional radiologist/neurointensivist at Arcadia Hospital, Arcadia, CA Alexander Sweidan, MD Hoag Medical Center, Newport Beach, CA Our dedicated nursing team