Dr. Scholz is a neurologist and geneticist specializing in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonism and dementia syndromes. She received her medical degree from the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria. Following graduation, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health under the supervision of Drs. Andrew Singleton and John Hardy. She obtained a Ph.D. in neurogenomics from the University College London, UK in 2010. She then moved to Baltimore to complete her neurology residency training at Johns Hopkins. In 2015 Dr. Scholz received the McFarland Transition to Independence Award for Neurologist-Scientists. She is Lasker Clinical Research Scholar at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke focusing on genetic causes of neurodegenerative syndromes, and an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins' department of neurology. Dr. Scholz is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), Multiple System Atrophy, Movement Disorders, and Parkinson's Disease.

Dr. Argye Hillis is a professor of Neurology, with joint faculty appointments in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in Cognitive Science. She is also the Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute Professor of Acute Stroke Diagnoses and Management. Prior to medical training and neurology residency, Dr. Hillis worked as a speech-language pathologist, and conducted clinical research focusing on understanding and treating aphasia and hemispatial neglect. She has brought these areas of experience to impact on her clinical research in neurology, which involves cognitive and neuroimaging studies of aphasia and hemispatial neglect due to acute stroke and focal dementias. She has published extensively on these topics in journals and textbooks. Dr. Hillis is Associate Editor of Stroke and has served as Associate editor of Brain, Annals of Neurology, Aphasiology, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Neurocase, Cognitive Neuropsychology, and Language and Cognitive Processes and served as co-Editor and Chief of Behavioral Neurology. Dr. Hillis serves as the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology and the Director of the Cerebrovascular Division of Neurology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Hillis is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Primary Progressive Aphasia, Stroke, Frontotemporal Dementia, Thrombectomy, and Gastrostomy.

Noushin Yahyavi is a Radiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Yahyavi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Hepatocerebral Degeneration, Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy, Cerebellar Degeneration, and Cerebellum Agenesis Hydrocephaly.

Dr. Becker is a neurologist who earned his Medical Degree from Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Research Assistant in Neuroscience investigating the role of embryonic stem cells in spinal cord injury repair at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine in 2004 and his residency in Neurology in 2007. From there, he completed a year-long fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Becker is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Paraplegia, Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), and Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy.

Louis Smith is a Radiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Smith is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Optic Glioma, Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, and Vertigo.

Dr. Probasco is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Neurology. He is the Vice Chair for Quality, Safety, and Service for the department. He also serves as the Director of the Johns Hopkins Division of Advanced Clinical Neurology as well as the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Inpatient General Neurology Service. He co-directs the Johns Hopkins Encephalitis Center and the Johns Hopkins Center for Refractory Status Epilepticus and Neuroinflammation. He cares for general neurology inpatients and outpatients, specializing in autoimmune and paraneoplastic syndromes as well as neurological immune-related adverse events following immunotherapies for cancer. After completing his undergraduate studies in biochemistry at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Probasco attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned a second undergraduate degree in psychology, philosophy and physiology. He went on to earn his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and a residency in neurology at Johns Hopkins, where he was the faculty liaison/executive chief resident. He went on to complete an instructorship in inpatient general neurology at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Probasco’s research interests include increasing care value through improving outcomes, incorporation of patient experience of disease and treatment, the efficiency of care delivery, and diagnostic test utilization in general and specifically in relation to autoimmune and paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, including encephalitis. Finally, he is interested in the management of neurological immune-related adverse events following immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer. Dr. Probasco has been recognized at the departmental, institutional, and national levels for teaching and clinical excellence, including the American Academy of Neurology’s A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award and the Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence. He is a past graduate of the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute Resident Scholars (AIRS) program in Patient Safety and Quality. As a faculty member, he was inducted into the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence in 2019. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of NEJM Journal Watch Neurology. Videos The impact of COVID-19 on the Department of Neurology‚Äôs clinical care and medical education programs. Dr. Probasco is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Encephalitis, Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, Status Epilepticus, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and Gastrostomy.

Dr. Ankur Butala specializes in the care of persons with complex neuropsychiatric conditions, including persons with advanced Parkinson Disease or other movement or neurodegenerative disorders. Upon graduating from a selective Physician-Scientist program at Albany Medical College, he joined the University of Massachusetts in an uncommon residency in both Neurology and Psychiatry. Dual-trained neuropsychiatrists such as Dr. Butala have experience with: Parkinson Disease and atypical Parkinsonism, Huntington Disease, Ataxia, Dystonia, early-onset dementia, traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, autism spectrum disorders, medication refractory mood and psychotic disorders, epilepsy and functional neurological disorders. In residency, he developed an interest in circuit models of brain function and how non-pharmacological approaches such as Neuromodulation and brain stimulation may be used to address treatment-resistant conditions. Consequently, he joined Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a Clinical and Research Fellow from 2015 to 2018, where he developed a skill set including deep brain stimulation, non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS), and measurement of eye movements. Currently, Dr. Butala's clinical and research interests are in diagnosing and managing persons with advanced Parkinson's Disease, movement disorders, and neuropsychiatric conditions using neuromodulation, cannabinoids, and entheogens. He has ongoing multidisciplinary collaborations with colleagues at the Whiting School of Engineering - Center of Speech & Language Processing in using Machine-Learning Models and Artificial Intelligence to improve the detection and diagnosis of Movement and Neuropsychiatric disorders. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankurbutalamd Videos Neurology: Junior Faculty Spotlight. Dr. Butala is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Corticobasal Degeneration, Movement Disorders, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Dr. Justin McArthur is nationally and internationally recognized for his work in studying the natural history, development and treatment of the neurological complications of HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other neurological infections and immune-mediated neurological disorders. Dr. McArthur has also developed a technique to use cutaneous nerves to study sensory neuropathies, including those associated with chemotherapy, HIV and diabetes. Currently his clinical practice includes neuroimmunological disorders including MS, neurological infections, and complex undiagnosed neurological disorders. Dr. McArthur was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins/National Institute of Mental Health Research Center for HIV-associated Cognitive Disorders. The Center is an experienced interdisciplinary research team who have pooled their talents to study the nature of HIV-associated cognitive disorders. he is also the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Sheikh Khalifa Stroke institute. Dr. McArthur received his medical degree from Guys Hospital Medical School in London, UK. He then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. Dr. McArthur stayed with Johns Hopkins to complete a residency in neurology and achieve his Master's in public health. He is the current Director of the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology and holds the John W. Griffin Professorship in neurology which was established in 2015 by Jeffrey and Harriet Legum. In April 2017 Dr. McArthur was elected to the Association of American Physicians. In 2020 he was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Mcarthur is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), and Encephalitis.

Dr. Alexander Pantelyat cares for patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and related syndromes, essential tremor, dystonia, chorea and normal pressure hydrocephalus. He also provides botulinum toxin injections for movement disorders and is involved in deep brain stimulation programming and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.His research explores atypical parkinsonian disorders, such as dementia with Lewy bodies, progressive supranuclear palsy, corticobasal syndrome/degeneration and multiple system atrophy; cognitive aspects of movement disorders; and music-based rehabilitation of neurodegenerative diseases.Dr. Pantelyat earned his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he was elected a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and received the Matthew T. Moore Prize in Neurology. He completed his residency training in Neurology ​at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a fellowship in movement disorders at the University of Pennsylvania/Philadelphia VA Medical Center. As part of his fellowship, Dr. Pantelyat also completed the Clinical Research Certificate Program at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He is a 2013 American Academy of Neurology Palatucci Advocacy Leader and grant recipient. Dr. Pantelyat is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Atypical, Supranuclear Ophthalmoplegia, and Corticobasal Degeneration.

Dr. Majid Khan is a Radiologist and Director, Non-Vascular Spine Intervention at Johns Hopkins University hospitals. Dr. Khan graduated from University of Kashmir, India in 1993. He completed his residency in radiology at the Nassau University Medical Center at Stony Brooks University and then completed his fellowship in Neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Majid is deeply invested in both diagnostic Neuroradiology with particular emphasis on advanced head & neck and spine tumor imaging. His prime interest is doing spine tumor ablations primarily using microwave ablation devices and has performed the most number of such cases in the United States. He has significant expertise in spine cement augmentation procedures like kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for treatment of compression fractures due to osteoporosis, multiple myeloma and/or other tumor-associated pathological fractures, sacroplasty for the treatment of fractures of the sacrum, epidural steroid injections, facet and transforaminal nerve blocks. He has treated a considerable number of patients with Tarlov and synovial cysts. Dr. Khan is a core member of Johns Hopkins Headaches and CSF Leak Program doing both targeted and non-targeted blood and fibrin glue patches. In addition, Dr. Khan has performed numerous imaging-guided head and neck biopsies with expertise in deep trans-facial biopsies. Dr. Majid has contributed to numerous publications and book chapters and has given regional, national and international talks, as well as presented research at many national meetings. He is a member of the American Society of Neuroradiology, American College of Radiology, American Society of Spine Radiology, North American Spine Society, Radiologic Society of North America, European Society of Radiology. Dr. Khan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak, Meningocele, Tarlov Cysts, Vertebroplasty, and Bone Graft.

Ankur Gupta is a Radiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Gupta is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Lung Nodules, Vertigo, Visceromegaly, Osteotomy, and Endoscopy.

Stephen Reich is a Neurologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Reich is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Movement Disorders, Parkinson's Disease, Supranuclear Ophthalmoplegia, Deep Brain Stimulation, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Reich is currently accepting new patients.

Lisa Shulman is a Neurologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Shulman is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Drug Induced Dyskinesia, and Benign Essential Blepharospasm. Dr. Shulman is currently accepting new patients.

Friedrich Von Coelln is a Neurologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Von Coelln is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Essential Tremor, Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), and Gastrostomy. Dr. Von Coelln is currently accepting new patients.

Elana Smith is a Radiologist and a Neuroradiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Smith has been practicing medicine for over 17 years and is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Stroke, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Pleurisy, and Pleural Effusion.

Joseph Savitt is a Neurologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Savitt is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Supranuclear Ophthalmoplegia, Supranuclear Ocular Palsy, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Savitt is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Nisha Sankaran is an expert in neuroradiology and comes to Johns Hopkins from Northern Virginia Radiology Consultants, where she spent the last two years as a private practice diagnostic radiologist specializing in neuroradiology. She earned her medical degree from Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University. She completed her diagnostic radiology residency at University of Mississippi Medical Center, where she served as chief resident for two years and was involved in various leadership and quality assurance committees. She completed her neuroradiology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University. She was one of 10 residents/fellows to receive the Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) Scholarship Award in 2018. She is an active member of the ACR RLI ‘Resident and Young Physicians Leadership Summit’ Planning Committee. Dr. Sankaran has interests in stroke imaging, spine imaging, brain tumor imaging, and traumatic injuries of the brain and spine. She has published multiple journal articles on spine and stroke related imaging. Dr. Sankaran is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy, Hepatocerebral Degeneration, Subependymoma, and Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation.

Dr. Haris Sair is Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, and the Director of the Division of Neuroradiology. His areas of clinical expertise include functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the brain. He also has a faculty appointment in the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at The Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, investigating the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in imaging. He is a founding director of the Radiology Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL). He previously served as the President of the American Society of Functional Neuroradiology. Dr. Sair earned his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine. He completed his Radiology residency at Temple University Medical Center, and fellowship in Neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Sair is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Hydrocephalus, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, Traumatic Brain Injury, Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak, and Microvascular Decompression.

Dr. Watkins received a bachelor of arts degree in Psychobiology from Harvard University and a medical doctor degree from the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed internship at Georgetown-INOVA Fairfax Hospital followed by a Diagnostic Radiology residency and Neuroradiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Watkins was a staff Neuroradiologist for Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center and the director of the Bethesda outpatient center for American Radiology from 2006-2015. She then served as Sub Chief of Neuroradiology Mid Atlantic Permanente Medical Group from 2015-2016. Dr. Watkins has served as a Neuroradiology course lecturer for the American College of Radiology, case review lecturer for the Radiological Society of North America and a reviewer for the Neuroradiology section of the Radiographics Journal. Dr. Watkins is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. Her top areas of expertise are Stroke, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Meningioma, and Craniopharyngioma.

Dr. William Wong’s focus is in diagnostic radiology, with almost 20 years of experience in private practice. Dr. Wong joins Johns Hopkins from practicing for vRad teleradiology, where he served as a radiologist for 19 years. He also has 10 years of experience as a medical reviewer for continuing medical education activities with Medical Learning Institute. He earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University, going on to an internship in general surgery at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University, serving as chief resident during the 2000 academic year. He also completed a fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology with the University of Virginia Health System. Dr. Wong is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Cerebellar Multiple System Atrophy. His top areas of expertise are Gallbladder Disease, Cholangiocarcinoma (Bile Duct Cancer), Pleural Effusion, and Pleurisy.