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Our Team

Fellowship-trained specialists in endovascular and open neurovascular surgery.

Our Attendings

Fellowship-trained Faculty

Christopher S. Ogilvy, MD

Christopher Ogilvy, MD

Neurological Surgery
Professor of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Director, Endovascular and Operative Neurosurgery
Director, BIDMC Brain Aneurysm Institute
Founder, Brain Aneurysm Foundation

Clinical Interests

  • Arteriovenous malformations of the brain and spine
  • Brain vascular malformations
  • Cavernous malformations of the brain and spinal cord
  • Extracranial and intracranial atherosclerotic disease
  • Intracranial aneurysms
  • Moya-Moya disease
  • Stroke

Board Certifications

American Board of Neurological Surgery

Academic Titles

Professor, Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Education

  • Medical School: Dartmouth College, Geisel School of Medicine
  • Internship: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia Campus
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Fellowship: Millard Fillmore Health System
Philipp Taussky, MD

Philipp Taussky, MD

Neurological Surgery
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Brain Aneurysm Institute

Clinical Interests

  • Arteriovenous malformations of the brain and spinal cord
  • Brain hemorrhage
  • Brain vascular malformations
  • Cavernous malformations of the brain and spinal cord
  • Extracranial and intracranial atherosclerotic disease
  • Intracranial aneurysms
  • Moya-Moya disease
  • Skull base tumors
  • Stroke
  • Traumatic brain injuries
  • Trigeminal neuralgia

Board Certifications

American Board of Neurological Surgery

Academic Titles

Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School

Education

  • Medical School: University Bern
  • Internship: Inselspital Bern
  • Residency: Kantonsspital Aarau
  • Fellowship: University of Utah Health
Justin Granstein, MD, MPH

Justin Granstein, MD, MPH

Neurointerventional Surgery
Director, Neurovascular Quality Assurance

Clinical Interests

  • Carotid artery stenosis
  • Carotid-cavernous fistulas
  • Intracranial aneurysms
  • Acute stroke
  • Subarachnoid hemorrhage
  • Subdural hematoma
  • Arteriovenous malformations
  • Blunt cerebrovascular injury
  • Neurocritical care

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Neurology)
  • United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (Neurocritical Care)

Education

  • Graduate: Dartmouth College
  • Medical School: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
  • Internship: University of Washington Medical Center
  • Residency: University of Washington Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Mount Sinai Hospital Icahn School of Medicine (Neurocritical Care)
  • Fellowship: University of California, Irvine (Neurointerventional Surgery)

Clinical Team

Advanced Practice Providers

Deidre A. Buckley, RN, NPDB
Deidre A. Buckley, RN, NPNurse Practitioner
Diane DiNobile, RN, APNDD
Diane DiNobile, RN, APNNurse Practitioner
Kendra Kouloheras, NPKK
Kendra Kouloheras, NPNurse Practitioner

Training Program

Our Clinical Fellows

Our highly experienced clinical fellows train alongside the faculty in both endovascular and open neurovascular surgery.

Quais Alrishadi, MDQA
Quais Alrishadi, MDCurrent Clinical Fellow
Chuck Mackel, MDCM
Chuck Mackel, MDCurrent Clinical Fellow
H. Milan Samarage, MDMS
H. Milan Samarage, MDCurrent Clinical Fellow

Past Clinical Fellows

Alumni of the BIDMC Brain Aneurysm Institute fellowship program, now practicing across the country and around the world.

Milan Samarage2025-Clinical Fellow, BIDMC
Syed Sarmad Bukhari2024-2026Clinical Fellow, BIDMC
Sandeep Muram2023-2025Endovascular and operative neurovascular surgeon, MetroHealth, Cleveland, OH
Michael Young2022-2024Cerebrovascular and general neurosurgery, Advocate Health, Chicago, IL
Max Shutran2021-2023Neurovascular surgery, Stamford Medical Center; Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Ulas Cikla2020-2022Assistant Professor, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Dominic Harris2019-2020Clinical fellow in neurosurgery, spine service, BIDMC
Timothy (Matt) Robinson2019-2020Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico
Luis Savastano2019Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco
Kimberly Kicielinski2017-2019Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Medical University of South Carolina
Paul Foreman2018Endovascular and operative neurovascular surgery, Orlando Health Neuroscience
Abdulrahman Alturki2016-2018Director of Endovascular and Operative Neurovascular Surgery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Philip Schmalz2016-2017Assistant Professor, University of Alabama School of Medicine
Justin M. Moore2016Chairman and Professor of Neurosurgery, Monash University, Australia
Christoph Griessenauer2015-2016Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Christian-Doppler-Clinic Paracelsus Medical University
Le (Lucy) He2015Staff Neurosurgeon, Anchorage, AK
Parviz Dolati, MDJuly 1, 2014-June 30, 2015American Hospital Dubai
Matthew R. Fusco2013-2015Co-director of Cerebrovascular Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center