Professional Advisory Board
Kim Tallian, PharmD, APh, BCPP, FASHP, FCCP, FCSHP
Chair – Professional Advisory Board
Advanced Practice Pharmacist- Neuropsychiatry
PGY2 Residency Program Director, Psychiatry
Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego
Adjunct Clinical Professor, UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy
Abraham Chyung, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice Chair – Professional Advisory Board
Adult Epileptologist
Scripps Clinic Div. of Neurology
Keri Carstairs, M.D.
Medical Director, Emergency Care
Chief of Division of Emergency Medicine
Rady Children’s Hospital
Sophia Ceulemans, M.S., CGC
Licensed and Certified Genetic Counselor
Rady Children’s Hospital
Smit S. Chauhan, M.D., M.P.H.
Psychiatrist
Scripps Healthcare
Sharp Healthcare
Bilal Ahmad Choudry, M.D.
Neurologist and Epileptologist
The Neurology Center
Ruth M. Covell, M.D.
Associate Dean of Medicine
Emeritus Clinical Professor
UCSD School of Medicine, Dean’s Office
Monsita Faley, DNP, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner, Neurology
Scripps Health
Jeffrey Gertsch, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Director, Interventional Neurophysiology
Department of Neurosciences
UCSD Medical Center
Lauren Giardina, J.D.
Staff Attorney
Disability Rights California
David Gonda, M.D.
Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Rady Children’s Hospital
Robert Gray, Ph.D., ABPP
Pediatric Neuropsychologist
Olivia Kim-McManus, M.D.
Pediatric Epileptologist
UCSD Medical Center
Rady Children’s Hospital
Samiya Rashid, D.O.
Epileptologist
Epilepsy and Neurology Specialists of San Diego
Voluntary Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Neurosciences
University of California San Diego Health Sciences
Jong M. Rho, M.D.
Professor of Neurosciences and Pediatrics
University of California San Diego
Chief, Division of Pediatric Neurology
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego
CDR Jacqueline Serena, M.D.
Pediatric Neurologist
Naval Medical Center San Diego
Jerry Shih, Ph.D.
Neurologist
UCSD Neurosciences
Stephen F. Signer, M.D.
Psychiatrist
Psychiatric Centers at San Diego
Howard Taras, M.D.
Pediatrician, Professor
UCSD
Medical Consultant to School Districts
Ari Zeldin, M.D., FAAP FAAN
Pediatric Neurology
Naval Medical Center San Diego