UE5 Neurology/Neurosurgery Fellow Research Symposium
Event: UE5 Neurology/NeurosurgeryFellow Research Symposium – Thursday, April 30, 2026
Venue: Connor Auditorium, 12-2 p.m.
Keynote speaker
Wayne Yokoyama, MD
Sam J. Levin & Audrey Loew Levin Professor
Director, WashU MSTP
Bishop Lectureship: “Challenging Current Paradigms to Explain Clinical Autoimmunity – The HLA-B27 Story”
Event: R25 Neurology Fellow Research Symposium – Friday, May 5, 2023
Venue: Moore Auditorium, 7:45-11 a.m.
Keynote speaker
Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Bishop Lectureship: Assist in Deciding Optimal Therapeutic Interventions For Patients with Neurological Disorders
Presentations
MRI Correlates of Concussion and Inattention in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Benjamin Kay, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
Intersection of the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB), Neurology, and Neuro-Oncology
Omar H. Butt
Instructor in Medicine
Siteman Cancer Center
Defining the Mechanisms Underlying Sexually Dimorphic Vision Loss in Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) Optic Glioma
Yunshuo “Caroline” Tang, MD, PhD
Clinical Fellow Associate
Department of Neurology
Dopaminergic Regulation of Pain Processing in the Amygdala
Robert (BJ) Heuermann, MD, PhD
Movement Disorders Fellow
Departments of Anesthesiology & Neurology
Effect of astrocyte and microglial ApoE on traumatic brain injury (TBI)-mediated neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Enmanuel J. Perez, MD, PhD
Instructor in Neurology
Department of Neurology