New Providers

Jeanelle S. Ali, PhD, joined Le Bonheur’s Neuroscience Institute as a clinical neuropsychologist. She received her doctorate from the University of Memphis. She completed a predoctoral residency in neuropsychology rehabilitation and pediatric consultation at the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Ali is a member of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, the International Neuropsychological Society and Division 40 of the American Psychological Association.

Beth Anne Cavanaugh, MD, joined the Neuroscience Institute as a pediatric neurologist and the director of Le Bonheur’s Pediatric Stroke Program. She completed residencies in pediatrics and child neurology at Wake Forest University and a fellowship in vascular neurology at the University of Colorado. Cavanaugh is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of the International Pediatric Stroke Organization, Child Neurologist Society and American Academy of Neurology.

Nitish Chourasia, MD, recently joined Le Bonheur’s Neuroscience Institute as a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist. Chourasia completed his residency in child and adolescent neurology at the McGovern Medical School - UTHealth, in addition to fellowships in clinical neurophysiology from Baylor College of Medicine and pediatric epilepsy at Harvard Medical School. His specialties include pediatric epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology with expertise in epilepsy surgery evaluation and management of medically refractory epilepsies including genetic epilepsies. Chourasia is published in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of the Child Neurology Society, American Academy of Neurology, American Epilepsy Society and American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.

Andrew Schroeder, MD, joined Le Bonheur’s Neuroscience Institute as a neurologist. Schroeder completed his residency in pediatric neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society.