General Administration | Neurological Surgery | UC Davis Health

The Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery are home to a wide variety of administrative professionals who work collaboratively to ensure all administrative tasks for both departments are completed in a timely manner. 

Department of Neurology

Executive Analyst:

Meriah Horton (merhorton@health.ucdavis.edu)

• Chair's Analyst for Amy Brooks-Kayal, M.D.
• Neurology department faculty meeting coordination
• General Assistance to CAO and department

Purchasing Analyst:

Holly Cagle (hacagle@health.ucdavis.edu) 

• All departmental purchasing
• AggieTravel resource

Purchasing Analyst:

Karina Zepeda (klzepeda@health.ucdavis.edu) 

• All departmental purchasing
• AggieTravel resource

Department of Neurological Surgery

Executive Analyst:

Maya Ravetto, M.B.A. (mravetto@health.ucdavis.edu) 

• Chair's Analyst for Kia Shahlaie, M.D., Ph.D.
• Project Management
• Special Events Planning

Financial Analyst:

Lorraine Casillas (lecasillas@health.ucdavis.edu)

Faculty Admin Support

Carrie Pitkin (cpitkin@health.ucdavis.edu)

• Christelle Anaclet, Ph.D. (Sleep Research)
• Patrick Fuller, Ph.D. (Director, Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience)
• Gene Gurkoff, Ph.D. (TBI and Epilepsy Research)
• Bruce Lyeth, Ph.D. (Therapy and TBI Research)
• Sergey Stavisky, Ph.D. (Research; Co-Director, Neuroprosthetics Lab)
• Jie (JZ) Zheng, Ph.D. (Z-Lab and Cognition and Memory Research)
• Christine Picinich, N.P. (APP Supervisor; NCC)

Cheryl Williams (cawilliams@health.ucdavis.edu)

• Hansen Deng, M.D. (Spine)
• Kee Kim, M.D. (Co-Director Spine Center)
• Allan Martin, M.D., Ph.D. (Spine; Program Director, Vice Chair of Education)
• Richard Price, M.D., Ph.D. (Spine)
• Thomas Wonzy, M.D. (Spine)
• Marike Zwienenberg, M.D. (Pediatric)

Katrina Cabral (kscabral@health.ucdavis.edu)

• Orin Bloch, M.D. (Cranial and Neuro-oncology; Director, Brain Tumor Program)
• David Brandman, M.D., Ph.D. (Cranial and Functional; Co-Director, Neuroprosthetics Lab)
• Jonathan Calvert, Ph.D. (Neural Engineering)
• Stephano Chang, M.D., Ph.D. (Cranial and Peripheral Nerve)
• Branden Cord, M.D., Ph.D. (Cerebrovascular)
• Laura Marcu, Ph.D. (Biophotonics and NCIBT)
• Ben Waldau, M.D. (Cerebrovascular) 

Jennie Funtanilla (jfuntanilla@health.ucdavis.edu) 

• Ryan Martin, M.D. (Neurocritical Care and TBI; NCC Fellowship Director)
• Cameron Sadegh, M.D., Ph.D. (Pediatric and IPRM)
• Krupa Savalia, M.D., Ph.D. (Neurocritical Care)
• Julia Sharma, M.D. (Chief, Pediatric Epilepsy; Associate Program Director)
• Jeffrey Vitt, M.D. (Neurocritical Care)
• Lara Zimmermann, M.D. (Neurocritical Care Director)