Class of 2013 |
Mellekate Vishwas, MD (Chief)
Hometown: Davangere, India
Undergraduate: MBBS, JSS Medical College
Medical School: MD, JJM Medical College
Pediatric Residency: Wake Forest School of Medicine
Pediatric Neurology Interests: White Matter Disease in particular pediatric demyelinating diseases and Epilepsy. | 
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My name is Vishwas Mellekate, but most people just call me Vish. I was born and brought up in India where I completed my medical education including medical school and Internal Medicine residency. I came to the US with the intention of becoming a neurologist and started my career as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. I was fortunate enough to join the Child Neurology Department as a resident here at Wake Forest where I am currently the Chief Resident. I am a fun loving guy and enjoy outdoor activities, but most of all, I enjoy the company of my wife and cute daughter. |
Class of 2014 |
John Magruder, MD
Hometown: Glen Allen, Virginia
Undergraduate: BS, Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical School: Penn State College of Medicine
Pediatric Residency: Wake Forest School of Medicine
Pediatric Neurology Interests: Epileptology |  |
Hi all, my name is John Magruder. I was born in Auburn, Alabama and raised in Richmond, Virginia, where I earned my BS in biomedical engineering at VCU. For med school, I went to Penn State, where I met my lovely wife in an a capella singing group, and I followed her to Wake Forest for residency. When home, I love to cook, watch college football, listen to heavy metal, enjoy the great outdoors and play with my baby daughter. |
Class of 2015 |
Ilya Khaytin, MD
Hometown: Sverdlovsk, Russia
Medical School: Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Pediatric Residency:
Pediatric Neurology Interests: Development, Imaging, Behavior
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Considering that my mom and stepdad are neurologists, I have thought about becoming a neurologist ever since primary school. I immigrated to the US in 1992 and was naturalized 5 years later. I graduated from UC Berkley with honors in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology on the neuroscience track. As an undergraduate, I worked in an Entomology lab helping to study fungal substances that attract termites. I then did two years of psychophysics research studying the effect of rapid visual stimulus presentation on perception, followed by two years of bioengineering post-graduate work. I then started at Vanderbilt in the MD/PhD program where I continued my work on perceptual properties of the primary visual cortex. During my third year of medical school, I discovered that my passion was for Pediatrics and I combined these two interests – pediatrics and neuroscience. In my free time, I like to watch television and movies – particularly old TV series like MASH and newer ones like NCIS. I tinker with computers and actually built the one which I used for my PhD. I like photography and usually take tons of pictures with my old Canon Rebel anytime I go anywhere.
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Mariana Ciobanu, MD
Hometown: Grinauti Raia, Moldova
Medical School: MD, State Medical & Pharma University - "Nicolae Testimiteanu"
Pediatric Residency: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Neurology interests: neonatal stoke,management of spasticity, neurodevelopmental disorders and quality assurance projects
Non- medical interests: running, meditation, coordinating humanitarian international projects |  |
Class of 2016
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Lilliana Banari, MD
Hometown: Edinet, Moldova
Undergraduate: Nursing, Republican Nursing College, Chisnau, Moldova
Medical School: MD, State Medical & Pharma University, " Nicolae Testimitanu"
Pediatric Neurology Interests:
Other Interests: Yoga, hiking live-classical music concerts, fine arts. |
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