Leadership

Program Director

Ankur Garg, MD

Dr. Ankur Garg is the Program Director of the Neurology residency training program. He is also the medical director of the comprehensive stroke center at the HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, the primary clinical site for the residency program.

Dr. Garg has vast educational and administrative experience. He is board certified in Neurology and Vascular Neurology and fellowship trained in Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology. Prior to his move to Florida, he served as the medical director of the Neurointervention services and director of the Neurointervention fellowship program at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Dr. Garg is very actively involved with the American Heart Association (AHA) and recently served as the President of the AHA Orlando Board to provide leadership and direction to the mission and policies of the AHA and to serve as the official spokesperson of the AHA Orlando Board in matters of science, health, and public policy matters. He is currently the Chair of the Stroke program for the Florida Society of Neurology annual conference.

Associate Program Director

Muhammad-Atif Zubairi

Dr. Zubairi is a dual fellowship trained Neurologist in Vascular Neurology and Neurocritical Care. He was practicing medicine as an intensivist in Pakistan before he moved to the United States. Dr. Zubairi completed his Internship and Neurology Residency at the University of New Mexico. He did his fellowship trainings in Neurocritical Care at the Cleveland Clinic and Vascular Neurology at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Zubairi joined HCA Florida Osceola Hospital in 2020 and currently holds the Associate Program Director leadership position in the UCF/HCA Neurology Residency Program. He manages critically ill patients with neurological disorder in the intensive care unit and patients with cerebrovascular disease on the stroke service.

Dr. Zubairi believes in providing advanced, superior care in the management of cerebrovascular disease and critical illness in a time sensitive manner to drive the best possible neurological outcomes. Currently, his research interests include targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest and neuropsychiatric evaluation after management of acute ischemic stroke.

Site Director

Nemours Children’s Hospital

Matthias Zinn, MD

Matthias M. Zinn, MD, joined the Division of Neurology at Nemours Children's Hospital in November 2015. Following a residency in pediatrics at Orlando Regional Medical Center, and a fellowship in child neurology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Zinn worked in private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is passionate about treating not only a child's symptoms, but also creating a strong support system at home. This is why he actively facilitates support groups to share strategies on managing epilepsy as a family.

Dr. Zinn has authored a peer-reviewed research report on intracranial hypertension in a child with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and has participated in several sponsored research investigations.

Dr. Zinn is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with a special qualification in child neurology. He is fluent in English and German.

Medical education and training

MD — University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Residency program

Pediatrics — Orlando Regional Medical Center in Orlando, Florida

Fellowship

Child Neurology — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research interests
  • treatment for seizures and pediatric migraine headaches
  • idiopathic intracranial hypertension
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Faculty

Prasad Ancha, MD

  • General Neurology

Danish Bhatti

  • Movement Disorders and Education

Yassar Chakfe, MD

  • Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuromuscular Medicine

Ankur Garg, MD

  • Director of Stroke Interventional Neurology

Fernando Gonzalez-Portillo, MD

  • Fernando Gonzalez-Portillo, MD

Sneha Jacob, MD

  • Vascular Neurology

Daniel Jacobs, MD

  • Neuroimmunology, Vascular Neurology

Afra Janarious, MD

  • Neuromuscular

Mark Klafter, DO

  • Movement Disorders and Vascular Neurology

Naga Prasad Nidadavolu, MD

  • General Neurology

Fabian Rossi, MD

  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Ahmed Sadek, MD

  • Epilepsy

Umesh Sharma, MD

  • Epilepsy

Saif Ullah, MBBS

  • General Neurology

Navin Verma, MD

  • Sleep Medicine

Matthias Zinn, MD

  • Faculty, Child Neurology