Featured Speakers
Leading experts are coming to HA CONNECT. Learn from world-renowned
neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuropsychologists, pediatricians, nurses, scientists and other
specialists. Check back often as we continue to add more speakers.
Lola Bolaji
Spelman College
Mark J. Burish, MD, PhD
UT Health Science Center at Houston
Stephanie (Buffa) Vogt
Co-Chair, St. Louis WALK to End Hydrocephalus
Taeun Chang, MD
Children’s National Medical Center
Gary Clark, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Nikola Dragojlovic, DO
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Ramin Eskandari, MS, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Christopher J. Farrell, MD
Thomas Jefferson University
Stephen A. Fletcher, DO
McGovern Medical School
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Amanda Garzón, MA
Hydrocephalus Association
Sarah Gaut, CCLS
Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas
Diana Gray, MA
Hydrocephalus Association
Mark G. Hamilton, MDCM, FRCSC, FAANS
University of Calgary
Krista Hanson, PhD, ABPP-CN
Barrow Neurological Institute
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
Carolyn Harris, PhD
Wayne State University
Winson Ho, MD
UT Health Austin
Bethany Holmes, CHHC
The Healthy B
Bruce A. Kaufman, MD, FACS, FAAP, FAANS
Medical College of Wisconsin – Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
Jenna Koschnitzky, PhD
Hydrocephalus Association
Andrea Lerude, MS, CCLS
Certified Child Life Specialist, Neuroscience Service Line
Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas
Mark Luciano, MD, PhD, FACS
Johns Hopkins University
James P. McAllister, II, PhD
Washington University School
of Medicine
J. Gordon McComb, MD
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)
Trevor Ming
Co-Chair, Houston WALK to End Hydrocephalus
Abhay Moghekar, MB, BS
Center for CSF Disorders, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael G. Muhonen, MD
Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Sashikala Nisankarao
Brandon Rocque, MD, MS, FAANS, FAAP
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Alex Rodger
University of Florida College of Public Health
Karly Rodriguez, MA, LMHC
HA NYC Community Network
Andre Sam, CRPC®, APMA®
Special Needs Education and Advocacy Project
Manish N. Shah, MD
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital
Mischer Neuroscience Institute
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Cynthia Smith-Seidel, PhD, ABPP/CN
Chesapeake ADHD Center
Lisette Tischner
Tessa van der Willigen, MBSR
Vice Chair, HA Board of Directors
Marion L. Walker, MD
University of Utah Health Sciences Center
David Walters
Ursinus College
Brett Weitz
TBS Television Network
SarahAnn S. Whitbeck, MBA, CHCP
Chest Wall injury Society
William Whitehead, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine
Michael A. Williams, MD
University of Washington School of Medicine
Jamie Wright
UT Health McGovern Medical School
T. Andrew Zabel, PhD, ABPP
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine