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FEATURED NEWS:
 2011 – 2012 US News & World Report
New York - Presbyterian University Hospital
of Columbia and Cornell
#1 Hospital in New York Metropolitan Area
#4 in Neurology & Neurosurgery Nationwide
#6 Best Hospitals Honor Roll
 2011 New York Magazine Best Doctors List:
- Dr. Carolyn Britton
- Dr. Stanley Fahn
- Dr. Timothy A. Pedley
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Dr. Darryl C. De Vivo, Dr. Claudia Chiriboga (PI),
and the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Clinical Research Center team achieved a major milestone this week, conducting the first-ever clinical trial in a human with SMA.
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 The NIH rankings are out; Columbia Neurology is ranked #3 in the nation for NIH-funded research, up from #5 last year! Faculty members ranked among the top funded investigators include Drs. Richard Mayeux, Robert Burke, Randy Marshall, Michio Hirano, Elan Louis, Yaakov Stern, Jennifer Manly, and Salvatore DiMauro. |
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OUR MISSION STATEMENT
The Department of Neurology at Columbia University will be a world leader in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system, and one of the leading academic departments of neurology in the United States by continuing its outstanding contributions to patient care, teaching, and research.
The Department of Neurology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center is committed to providing high-quality and compassionate care to all our patients and being responsive to the needs of the communities we serve.
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DR. RICHARD MAYEUX NAMED CHAIR OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROLOGIST-IN-CHIEF
Dr. Richard Mayeux
Chairman and Neurologist-in-Chief
Dr. Mayeux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University and his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences School of Medicine. He has also earned a masters degree in epidemiology from Columbia. He completed residencies in both internal medicine (Boston City Hospital, Boston University) and neurology (The Neurological Institute, Columbia University Medical Center) as well as a postdoctoral clinical fellowship in behavioral neurology with Dr. D. Frank Benson at the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center (Boston University).
Dr. Mayeux is an internationally recognized authority on Alzheimer disease and other dementias. Since 1989, he has led a multidisciplinary, population-based, epidemiological investigation of Alzheimer disease and related conditions known as the Washington Heights-Inwood Community Aging Project. This body of work, which now spans more than 20 years, has provided most of our current knowledge about the rates and risk factors for Alzheimer disease among elderly individuals in African-American and Caribbean Hispanic populations. This study has also provided information on the relationship between Alzheimer disease and numerous risk factors, including genotypic variability of apolipoprotein-ε4 risk in different ethnic groups; and the relationship of alterations in lipid metabolism to risk of dementia. Dr. Mayeux also directs a genetic linkage study of Alzheimer disease in Caribbean Hispanic families. He and his colleagues have completed two full genome-wide scans in these families and are now fine mapping regions of interest. He and his co-investigators recently identified genetic variants in the sortilin-related receptor, SORL1, that are related to Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Mayeux's work has resulted in more than 300 papers, chapters and books dealing with various aspects of Alzheimer disease and other degenerative diseases of the aging brain.
Dr. Mayeux has received a number of prestigious honors and awards for his work, including the 2007 Potamkin Award of the American Academy of Neurology, the Leadership and Excellence in Alzheimer Disease Award from the National Institute of Aging, the John Stearns Award for Lifetime Achievement in Medicine from the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Henry Wisniewski Lifetime Achievement Award in Alzheimer's Disease Research from the Alzheimer's Association. Dr. Mayeux has been elected to the Association of American Physicians, the American Epidemiological Society and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. |
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