Palmetto Health-USC Neurology

Pornpimol Becky Anprasertporn, MD, received her medical degree from Mahidol University, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. After receiving her MD she completed a medical internship at Somdejprasangkhraj 17th Hospital in Suphanburi, Thailand. Dr. Anprasertporn completed her residency in neurology at Saint Louis University as well as a fellowship in movement disorders from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is board certified in neurology and serves as a clinical assistant professor of neurology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Anprasertporn has received numerous professional honors and awards and is published in several peer-reviewed journals. She specializes in neurology and movement disorders.

Miroslav Cuturic, MD, joined the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Palmetto Health in 2003 and serves as an assistant professor of clinical neurology and a neurologist with Palmetto Health-USC Neurology. He has been the medical director of the Huntington’s disease clinic since 2003, and the full director since 2010.

Dr. Cuturic has initiated clinical research and authored publications in peer-reviewed journals pertaining to Huntington’s disease. He is a Huntington Study Group investigator as well as the site primary investigator for Enroll-HD. Dr. Cuturic has an interest in developing collaborative translational Huntington’s disease research at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.

Ravish Kothari, MD, received his medical degree from Government Medical College, Bhavnagar, in Gujarat, India. He completed a residency in neurology and a fellowship in vascular neurology at Palmetto Health/USC School of Medicine. Dr. Kothari is board certified in neurology.

Forrest J. Lowe, MD, received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where he also completed a neurovascular fellowship. He completed his residency in neurology at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Lowe is board certified in vascular neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Michael C. Mareska, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati and completed his residency training in neurology at the UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Mareska completed a fellowship in neurophysiology at West Virginia University Hospital in Morgantown and is board certified in neurology.

William Alvin McElveen, MD received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. He completed an internship and residency, both in internal medicine, from the Tucson Hospitals Medical Education Program in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. McElveen completed an additional residency in neurology at the University of Arizona. He is board certified in neurology and vascular neurology as well being board certified with the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners. Dr. McElveen has received numerous professional honors and awards, is published in several peer-reviewed journals and has participated in numerous clinical trials. He specializes in neurology and memory disorders.

Alexander Mirzoev, MD, received his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in Coral Gables, Florida. He is completed his residency in neurology at Premier Health Partners/Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Mirzoev has served as a research assistant on a number of subjects including sleep apnea, epilepsy and depression. He has a special interest in neuroimmunology, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

Stephanie Paolini, MD, received her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia. She completed a residency in neurology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, where she also completed fellowships in clinical neurophysiology and women’s neurology. Dr. Paolini is board certified in neurology.

Walter Hamilton Peters, IV, MD, received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. After receiving his MD he completed an internship in internal medicine and a residency in neurology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He completed a fellowship in Electrophysiology/Epilepsy while at Vanderbilt, and is board certified in neurology. Dr. Peters is published in several peer-reviewed journals and specializes in neurology and epilepsy.

Souvik Sen, MD, MS, MPH, currently serves as Chair of Neurology at Palmetto Health-USC Neurology and is a professor of neurology with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He joined the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in January, 2010.

Dr. Sen earned his medical degree from the University of Calcutta R. G. Kar Medical College in Calcutta, India. After completing medical training in India, he completed a Masters in Science in cardiovascular pharmacology at Wayne State University in Detroit, and then completed a medical internship at Henry Ford Hospital, also in Detroit. He completed a neurology residency at Temple University Health Science Center in Philadelphia, and a vascular neurology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. After his fellowship he served as co-director and subsequently director of the stroke center at the NJ Neuroscience Institute in Edison, New Jersey. He then served as the founding director of the UNC Hospitals Comprehensive Stroke Center at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. While there, he completed a Masters in Public Health with an epidemiology major.

Dr. Sen is board certified in neurology, and subspecialty board certified in Vascular Neurology. He is a recipient of the prestigious Center of Economic Excellence Stroke Chair in South Carolina, and has published in peer reviewed journals including Circulation, Stroke and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has received research funding from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health. In 2004, he was nominated as a Fellow of the American Heart Association. He serves on several national and international committees, and his specific research interests include acute stroke treatment, stroke and TIA pathophysiology, stroke prevention and epidemiology.

Myriam Sollman, PhD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology, with a specialization in neuropsychology, from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. She completed a fellowship in clinical psychology, with a specialization in adult and pediatric neuropsychology, at Barrow Neurological Institute/St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.

Research interests
Dr. Sollman’s research interests include movement disorders and memory disorders. She serves as a reviewer for several professional journals and has authored or co-authored many peer-reviewed articles.

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Y. Swamy Venkatesh, MD, DM, FRCP, FAAN, FACP,  graduated from Bangalore Medical College and trained in internal medicine at the University of the West Indies. He was a fellow in endocrinology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and later finished his residency and fellowship training in EMG/clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular disease. His research interests include diabetic neuropathy, spinal cord reflexes in CRPS, novel uses of botulinum toxin and vascular neurology.

Anil Yallapragada, MD, currently serves as medical director of the Palmetto Health Stroke Center, is a neurologist with Palmetto Health-USC Neurology and is an assistant professor of neurology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, completed his neurology residency at the University of Chicago and his vascular neurology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Ronald Reagan Medical Center.

Dr. Yallapragada has received numerous professional awards and recognitions, including the Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching award, the South Carolina Waccamaw American Heart Association (AHA) Legacy of Life award and the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin Young Physician of the Year award. He was selected as a national finalist for a White House Fellowship, has published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented at numerous national and international society meetings. He currently serves on the World Stroke Organization/World Health Organization (WHO) Global Guidelines and Policy Board, the AHA Mid-Atlantic Board, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) Stroke Advisory Council and the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Board of Physical Therapy Examiners.

Dr. Yallapragada is board certified in neurology and vascular neurology, and his primary research interests include improvements in stroke systems of care and health disparities in stroke outcomes and care, especially in South Carolina.

Alex Vezzetti, PA-C, is a physician assistant working with the neurology team at Palmetto Health-USC Neurology. She received her physician assistant master’s degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia.