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Tulane Neurosciences. Getting you back.
The prospect of a diagnosis and/or a hospital procedure can be overwhelming. We want to know as much as possible about who you are and the activities you used to enjoy so that we can get you back to being you. At Tulane, we believe that a strong provider/patient relationship improves patient outcomes.
Tulane Neurosciences. Getting you back.
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METAIRIE
East Jefferson General Hospital
4224 Houma Blvd, Suite 540
Metairie, LA 70006
COVINGTON
Lakeview Hospital
101 Judge Tanner Blvd, Suite 402
Covington, LA 70433
NEW ORLEANS
University Medical Center
2001 Tulane Ave. 2nd Floor, Zone A
New Orleans, LA 70112
METAIRIE
East Jefferson General Hospital
4224 Houma Blvd, Suite 540
Metairie, LA 70006
COVINGTON
Lakeview Hospital
101 Judge Tanner Blvd, Suite 402
Covington, LA 70433
NEW ORLEANS
University Medical Center
2001 Tulane Ave. 2nd Floor, Zone A
New Orleans, LA 70112
Dr. Dumont, Associate Dean and Vice President of Health System Clinical Affairs, Charles B. Wilson Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Tulane University School of Medicine, serves as the Director of Tulane’s Center for Clinical Neurosciences.
Dr. Dumont is a board-certified neurosurgeon who completed his residency at the University of Virginia as well as a fellowship in cerebrovascular, skull base and endovascular neurosurgery at the University of Virginia. He has interests in all areas of pediatric and adult neurosurgery including stroke and cerebrovascular disease, tumors of the brain and spine, spine disorders, epilepsy, peripheral nerve disease, minimally invasive stereotactic radiosurgery.
He is dually trained in open traditional microsurgery and minimally invasive endovascular surgery for vascular disorders of the brain and spine, and believes that Tulane’s commitment to having multiple certified and fellowship-trained surgeons is an important differentiator locally and regionally. He has active neurosurgical research interests and has published and presented extensively with more than 200 publications and more than 175 national and international presentations. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neurosurgery (the specialty’s leading scientific journal) and serves on the Editorial Boards of several other academic journals.
Dr. Dumont’s particular expertise in stroke, aneurysm and hemorrhage has led to his being one of a select team of physicians with whom the FDA consults as they evaluate new technologies.
Dr. Maulucci is the Director of the Neurosurgery Spine Program at Tulane. Fellowship-trained in complex spine, Dr. Maulucci specializes in complex spine disorders and minimally invasive spine surgery. He completed his residency training program at the University of Maryland as well as a fellowship in complex spine surgery at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Maulucci provides comprehensive care for spine patients. He is considered one of the leading experts in the country on surgical techniques using the Excelsius GPS spinal robot. He utilizes minimally invasive techniques, and possesses expertise in treating scoliosis, spinal deformity, and tumors of the vertebral column as well as complex revision surgery.
Dr. Maulucci has research interests in complex spine disorders and outcomes research. He has published numerous articles in these areas, and presented at national and international conferences.
Dr. Justin Salerian is fellowship-trained in Vascular Neurology and is double Board Certified in both Neurology and Vascular Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is the Director of Tulane’s Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Dr. Salerian completed his neurology residency training at Georgetown University in Washington, DC; in his final year he served as Chief Resident. He then completed his Vascular Neurology Fellowship at Tulane. He is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Tulane and is deeply committed to training medical students, residents, and fellows to become world class physicians.
His interests in Neurology are broad ranging including stroke, acute care neurology, neuro-immunology, neuro-behavioral disorders, post-concussion syndromes, and epilepsy. He is trained in multiple neuro-diagnostic modalities including neurovascular ultrasound and EEG. He performs botulinum toxin (Botox) injections with EMG guidance to treat spasticity. He serves as a physician in Tulane’s Professional Athlete Clinic, which is one of only four official National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) partnered sites around the country that has been entrusted to provide medical care for retired NFL players. Overall, his approach to medicine welcomes all patients, even those with the most challenging neurological disorders.
As for his research interests, Dr. Salerian is currently a co-investigator on multiple clinical trials, including one testing a medical cooling suit that can induce rapid hypothermia (cooling) as a neuroprotection strategy in acute stroke. Notably, prior to medical school, Dr. Salerian was a paramedic and a film-maker. He spent a year in South Africa working as a medic, and then wrote and directed a critically acclaimed documentary inspired by this experience. The film is called Tell Me and I Will Forget; it has been on Netflix and film festivals around the world.
Dr. Thomas Francavilla is a board-certified neurosurgeon who completed neurosurgery training at The George Washington University, and completed a Fellowship studying brain tumors at the National Institutes of Health. He has served as President of the Neurosurgical Society of Alabama, Southeast Regional Director of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and the Southeast Quadrant Chairman of the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies.
Dr. Francavilla recognized minimally invasive spine surgery as a major advance for patients suffering from spinal related pain. He was an early adopter of this type of surgery, performing numerous minimally invasive procedures since 2002. He went on to complete a fellowship in this type of surgery with the Laser Spine Institute, performing over 2500 surgeries while on staff.
Dr. Francavilla sees patients in the Tulane Covington Neuroscience Clinic, and performs surgeries at Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a campus of Tulane Health System.
Chair of the Department of Neurology
Professor of Neurology
Herbert J. Harvey, Jr. Chair in Neurosciences
Co-director of the Tulane Center for Clinical Neurosciences
Tulane University School of Medicine
Dr. Maraganore's passion is helping patients to achieve successful brain aging by preventing cognitive decline and dementia. His recent research studies relate to 1) quality improvement and practice-based research in neurology using the electronic medical record (EMR); 2) utilizing data from the EMR to predict Alzheimer's and dementia risk; and 3) understanding resistance, resilience, and repair in the healthspan ("over 90's study"). His clinical practice is in brain health (primary prevention of cognitive decline and dementia in at-risk persons) and the evaluation and management of memory disorders (including mild cognitive impairment and dementia).
Dr. Maraganore is the past BJ and Eve Wilder Professor of Alzheimer's Disease at the University of Florida, and recent founder and Director of the University of Florida Brain Health Program. Before the University of Florida, he was the Chair of Neurology at NorthShore University Health System and the Mayo Clinic Chair of the Division of Movement Disorders.
A Chicago native, Dr. Maraganore received his Bachelor of Science and Medical Degree at Northwestern University. He then completed his internship and residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He was then the Honorary Clinical and Research Fellow in Movement Disorders to Professor C. David Marsden at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, England.
Dr. Arthur Wang is a fellowship trained, board-certified neurosurgeon who specializes in cerebrovascular, endovascular, and general neurosurgery at Tulane University Medical Center.
Dr. Wang is a graduate of Cornell University and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He completed his neurosurgery residency at New York Medical College and a fellowship in endovascular neurosurgery/interventional neuroradiology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
As a cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgeon, Dr. Wang treats many vascular disorders of the head, neck, brain and spine using both open neurosurgery and minimally invasive techniques. Additionally, he treats general neurosurgical disorders including tumors of the brain and spine. His areas of clinical interests include ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, cerebral aneurysms, vascular malformations of the brain and spine, and carotid artery disease.
He is widely published with multiple peer reviewed articles and book chapters in the Journal of Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery, and World Neurosurgery.
Dr. Khan completed his neurosurgery residency at the Sher-I Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in India. Following his residency, he completed a two-year fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Northwestern Chicago and then did a one-year Onco-neurosurgery fellowship at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. This was followed by a two-year fellowship in Endovascular/Cerebrovascular also at the UVA.
Later, Dr. Khan joined Batra Hospital, a multispecialty hospital in Delhi at the Medical Research Center as a Consultant of Neurointerventional Surgery and visiting consultant with IBS Hospital. He joined Tulane, starting as a fellow in minimally invasive and spine, where he is currently working as an Instructor of Neurological Surgery.
His areas of interest are minimally invasive spine, complex spine, pituitary, and general surgery, including endovascular and endoscopic neurosurgery.
Dr. Johnson is a dual-fellowship trained Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgeon. He has special expertise in the open and minimally invasive treatment of carotid artery disease, brain aneurysms, AVM’s, stroke, and other diseases of the cerebral vasculature. In addition to his specialized interest in cerebrovascular neurosurgery, Dr. Johnson is also able to provide care for patients with spine disorders, brain, tumors, trauma and general neurosurgical care.
Dr. Johnson is a Louisiana native, hailing from St. Joseph, LA in Tensas Parish. He graduated with honors in Chemistry from Southern University and A&M College. Dr. Johnson then complete medical school at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport. He then went on to complete residency training at the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Peoria, where he also completed an Enfolded Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology fellowship. Following completion of residency training, Dr. Johnson then completed additional fellowship training at Semmes-Murphey Clinic in Open Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Neurosurgery.
Dr. Johnson’s research interests center around equity in stroke care, the anatomic basis of cerebrovascular disease, as well as aneurysm and stroke treatment outcomes.
Dr. Lora Kahn is a board-certified, fellowship-trained stereotactic and functional neurosurgeon. She realized her passion for helping patients with neuroscientific disease in high school, which inspired her to work for Nobel Laureate Dr. Eric Kandel in college and complete a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship under his mentorship during medical school.
In 2012, Dr. Kahn moved to New Orleans to complete her residency at Tulane University School of Medicine and Ochsner Health, where she enjoyed comprehensive training in all aspects of neurosurgery. She specializes in deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy for Parkinson disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder; surgical treatments for epilepsy including cranial robotics and minimally invasive therapies; and other neuromodulatory techniques, including spinal cord stimulation and intrathecal drug-delivery pumps.
Dr. Kahn’s research interests include electrophysiologic correlations of epilepsy and movement disorders in sleep states, safe application of neuromodulation for treatment of debilitating psychiatric disease and improving functional neurosurgery health literacy through 3D modeling. She is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Women in Neurosurgery, and the Louisiana Neurosurgical Society. She also serves as a reviewer for Acta Neurochirurgica.
Dr. Lauren Broussard joined Tulane’s Section of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and clinical geriatrician in 2024. A proud native of New Orleans, she holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from Louisiana State University and attended medical school at LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport. She completed her family medicine residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where she distinguished herself as Chief Resident in her final year. She then pursued a fellowship in Geriatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. We are delighted that Dr. Broussard is returning home to Louisiana to care and support for our aging population.
Dr. Broussard provides geriatric care through the Healthy Brain Aging Initiative at University Medical Center-New Orleans and the Southeastern Veterans Healthcare System. Her professional interests include dementia and other neurocognitive disorders, falls prevention, polypharmacy, post-acute care, and geriatric medical education.
Shelby was born and raised in Metairie, Louisiana. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Louisiana State University before completing a Master of Medical Science in Physician Assistant Studies at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University in Baton Rouge. She is certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants and licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. Shelby is also a member of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Her primary practice is located at East Jefferson General Hospital with Tulane Neurosurgery. Shelby was drawn to neurosurgery for its complexity and the profound, life-changing impact it can have on patients’ neurological function and overall quality of life. As a neurosurgery physician assistant, she combines advanced medical knowledge with hands-on care, collaborating with a highly specialized team to treat intricate brain and spine conditions. The field continues to inspire her every day through its demands for precision, critical thinking, and compassionate teamwork.