Top Neurologists in Virginia

John W. Cochran, MD

Fairfax, VA

Dr. Cochran is board certified in neurology, clinical neurophysiology and sleep medicine. He has been a member of the medical staff at Inova Alexandria and Inova Fairfax hospitals since 1978 and has been practicing privately in Northern Virginia for over 30 years. Dr. Cochran speaks regionally and nationally on his areas of interest, which include stroke, sleep disorders and pain. He is also a faculty member of the VCU School of Medicine Inova Campus.

Ted Burns, MD

Charlottesville, VA

Dr. Burns’ clinical practice focuses on neuromuscular diseases. He is the vice chair of clinical affairs in the Department of Neurology and in 2009 was awarded Endowed Chair, Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor. He is also the head of the Neuromuscular Disorders Division and director of the Electromyography Laboratory. Dr. Burns is board-certified in both neurology and clinical neurophysiology.

Madaline Harrison, MD

Charlottesville, VA

Dr. Harrison is a neurologist specializing in the evaluation and treatment of movement disorders. She received her medical training at the University of Miami School of Medicine and completed a neurology residency and movement disorders fellowship at the University of Virginia. As a member of the Movement Disorders Group at the University of Virginia, she sees patients with Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, dystonia, tremor, Tourette syndrome, and other conditions. She participates in several multidisciplinary programs for the specialized care of patients with complex movement disorders. She directs the UVA Huntington’s Disease Program, an HDSA Center of Excellence which provides clinical services well as genetic counseling to patients and families through a multidisciplinary clinic.

Edward Bertram III, MD

Charlottesville, VA

Dr. Bertram, is a neurologist specializing in epilepsy and seizures. Following his residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Virginia (now VCU), Dr. Bertram came to Charlottesville for his neurology training and never left. He completed fellowships at UVA in EEG and epilepsy and in experimental epilepsy, and then joined the faculty. Shortly afterwards, he started the epilepsy monitoring unit and the epilepsy surgery program. He has been a professor of neurology since 2004.

Nathan Fountain, MD

Charlottesville, VA

Dr. Fountain, is Professor of Neurology and since 1998 has been Director of the F.E. Dreifuss Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he completed neurology residency as well as clinical and research epilepsy fellowships. Dr. Fountain’s interventional research interests include experimental therapeutics of unconventional drugs and devices for epilepsy. Other research interests include the natural history, outcome, and pathophysiology of nonconvulsive status epilepticus and studies of the natural history of changes in seizure frequency. He serves on the board of the National Association of Epilepsy Centers and the Epilepsy Foundation Professional Advisory Board.

Thomas A. Smith, MD

Richmond, VA

Nina Solenski, MD

Charlottesville, VA

Dr. Solenski is an associate professor in neurology subspecializing in cerebrovascular disease at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Solenski is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia, PA ’89). She received her residency training at Dartmouth Mary-Hitchcock in internal medicine and at University of Virginia in neurology. She completed an ACGME accredited cerebrovascular disease fellowship training program at UVA in clinical and basic research. She is currently dual APBN boarded in general and vascular neurology.

Nilesh Vyas, MD

Fairfax, VA

Dr. Vyas is board certified in neurosurgery and comes to Inova Medical Group with four years of surgical and clinical experience. Although he treats all neurosurgical diseases, he has a special interest in management of cerebrovascular disorders such as brain aneurysms, AVMs, vascular malformations, carotid artery stenosis, brain tumors and complex skull base lesions

Marcus C. Rice, MD, FAAN, FACP

Virginia Beach, VA

Dr. Rice graduated from Princeton University and from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine and Neurology residencies at the University of Virginia, where he served as Chief Resident in Neurology. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and by the AANEM. He is the medical director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Tidewater and chairman of the Clinical Advisory Committee of the Hampton Roads Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Hampton Roads Chapter of the National MS Society, a member of the Consortium of MS Centers, and a member of the section on MS of the American Academy of Neurology. In addition to MS, Dr. Rice has had a long interest in Parkinson’s disease and in medical ethics.

Stacey Epps, MD

Richmond, VA

Dr. Epps received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his internship at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. Dr. Epps completed his neurology residency at Georgetown University Medical Center and the Washington Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In addition, he completed a fellowship in epilepsy at the University of Virginia Health System. Dr. Epps is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  Dr. Epps specializes in neurological disorders such as migraines and other headache syndromes, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. He has subspecialty training and expertise in seizures/epilepsy.