Dr. Rasesh Joshi completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and MD/PhD at Wake Forest School of Medicine. His graduate school work was focused on the role of infraslow oscillations in seizures and epilepsy. He is currently in his fourth year of Child Neurology residency at Boston Children's Hospital and working with Dr. Archana Patel in tracking neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with cerebral malaria in Chipata, Zambia. His specific focus is on computational analysis of EEG data collected from patients to find biomarkers predictive of post-malarial epilepsy.
Dr. Greenlaw completed her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University, and then completed medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. She is currently in her fifth and final year of Child Neurology residency at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Greenlaw's global health work is focused on creating an international child neurology curriculum for pediatric trainees. She is collaborating with attending neurologists at Boston Children's Hospital and with physicians in Zambia and Rwanda to create and validate this curriculum. The goal for the curriculum is for it to be adaptable for different healthcare settings, and easily enacted by local medical educators.
Dr. Alexandra Santana is a pediatric neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her medical degree from University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and has been in practice between 6-10 years.
Dr. Christine Shrock completed her undergraduate degree in Neurobiology at Harvard College, with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy, and then obtained her medical degree from Johns Hopkins. She completed her Pediatrics and Child Neurology residencies at Boston Children's Hospital and is now a Pediatric Neurocritical Care fellow at Boston Children's. She participated in global health programs in rural China and Haiti before medical school. During residency, she traveled to Zambia for a global health rotation, working alongside Zambian neurology and pediatrics residents at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. She also taught a series of lectures on child neurology topics and co-led a community worker training session at a rural clinic. She is looking forward to helping to develop further child neurology curricula for Zambian and Rwandan trainees.
After completing her undergraduate degree at Harvard College, Dr. Savage spent one year working in Huancayo, Peru for a not-for-profit organization, helping to establish a family planning clinic in a remote village in the Andes. She later completed medical school at Harvard Medical School where she worked for Partners in Health, studying childhood malnutrition patterns in Chiapas, Mexico and analyzing neuro-imaging data from a new hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti. She then completed child neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship within the global health track at Boston Children's Hospital, where she dedicated her research time towards studying the ability of clinicians to diagnose seizures via smartphone video, a strategy that may prove to be invaluable in more remote areas of the world where immediate access to an epilepsy center is not feasible. She looks forward to continuing to engage in global health throughout her career, with a goal of providing the highest level of neurologic care to those most in need.
Dr. Leslie Hayes studied Global Health and Biotechnology in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University then obtained her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her Child Neurology residency at Boston Children's Hospital and Neuromuscular medicine fellowship at Mass General Brigham before returning to Boston Children's Hospital to join the faculty. Beginning in residency, Dr. Hayes established a partnership with pediatric colleagues in Rwanda to support the pediatric neurology education of medical students and pediatric residents at both the University for Global Health Education in Butaro and the University Teaching Hospital in Kigali (CHUK). Additionally, she has collaborated with the Rwanda Pediatric Association to establish a health center and community-based program to improve awareness of and access to healthcare for children with Epilepsy.
Dr. Hanalise Huff, MD, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine. She completed her Neurology residency at Boston Children's Hospital, where she developed a deep commitment to improving neurological care for children. Dr. Huff brings a strong academic background and clinical expertise to her work in pediatric neurology.