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OUR DOCTORS



EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION
The Neurological Institute of New York   Timothy A. Pedley, MD Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Neurology and Chairman, Neurologist-in-Chief

John C. M. Brust, MD
Director, Harlem Hospital Neurology Service

Laura Lennihan, MD
Chief, Neurology Inpatient Services

Blair Ford, MD
Director, Neurology Residency Training Program

Susanna E. Horvath, MD
Chief, Allen Pavilion Neurology Service

James M. Noble, MD
Neurology Clerkship Director

J. Kirk Roberts, MD
Medical Director, Neurology Faculty Practice

Lewis P. Rowland, MD
Professor of Neurology and Chairman Emeritus

Louis H. Weimer, MD
Head, Neurology QA/QI Program

Nicholas DeLapo
Administrator for the Department of Neurology


DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY FACULTY

Faculty
Title
Division
A Gary S. Alweiss, MD
 Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology
(Englewood Hospital)		 Clinical Neurology
Jinsy Andrews, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology Neuromuscular Diseases
B Neeraj Badjatia, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Critical Care Neurology
Casilda Balmaceda, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology Neuro-oncology
Robert E. Barrett, MD
 Clinical Professor of Neurology
 Clinical Neurology
Carl W. Bazil, MD, PhD
 Caitlin Tynan Doyle Professor of Clinical Neurology; Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Sleep Center Epilepsy; Sleep
Karen L. Bell, MD
 Associate Clinical Professor Aging and Dementia
Bernadette Boden-Albala, PhD Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (in Neurology) Stroke; Sociomedical Sciences
Thomas H Brannagan III, MD
 Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Peripheral Neuropathy Center
Carl W. Braun, MD
 Clinical Professor (St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital) Clinical Neurology
Carolyn B. Britton, MD

 Associate Professor Viral infections, HIV, Lyme disease, Immune Disorders
John C. M. Brust, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology and Chief of Neurology Harlem Hospital Center
Robert E. Burke, MD Alfred and Minnie Bressler Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology Parkinson Disease and other Movement Disorders;
Neurodegenerative Diseases
C Elise Caccappolo, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neuropsychology Aging and Dementia, Neuropsychology
  Maureen Cafferty, MD Assistant Clinical Professor, (St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital) Clinical Neurology
Josh Cappell, MD, PhD Assistant Professor Pediatric Neurology
Paul-Henri Cesar MD Assistant Clinical Professor Allen Pavilion & Columbia Eastside
Claudia Chiriboga, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology & Clinical Pediatrics; Interim Division Head Pediatric Neurology
Hyunmi Choi, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology
 Epilepsy
Derek Chong, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Jan Claassen, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Critical Care and NICU
Lucien J. Côté, MD Professor of Neurology, Emeritus Parkinson Disease
D Michael Daras, MD Clinical Professor of Neurology General Neurology
Mercy Davidson, PhD Senior Research Scientist Merritt Research Center
Darryl C. De Vivo, MD Sidney Carter Professor of Neurology & Pediatrics; Associate Chair for Pediatric Neuroscience Pediatric Neurology, Metabolic Disorders, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease
Salvatore DiMauro, MD Lucy G. Moses Professor of Neurology and Associate Chair, Laboratory Research and Training Neuromuscular Biochemistry; Mitochondrial Disorders
Fiona K. Doetsch, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology and
Pathology & Cell Biology		 Neurobiology; Neural stem cells
Evan B. Drake, PhD Assistant Clinical Professor Neuropsychology, Epilepsy
E Mitchell S. Elkind, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Neurology and Associate Chair, Clinical Research and Training
 Stroke
Ronald G. Emerson, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology & Clinical Pediatrics and Head, Information
Systems Group		 Clinical Neurophysiology
F Stanley Fahn, MD H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology and Division Head, Movement Disorders Movement Disorders
Blair Ford, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology and
Associate Chair for Education 		Movement Disorders
Steven Frucht, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Movement Disorders
G Eugenia T. Gamboa, MD Assistant Clinical Professor Clinical Neurology
Arnold P. Gold, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical Pediatrics Pediatric Neurology
Michael E. Goldberg, MD David Mahoney Professor Brain & Behavior (in Neuroscience, Neurology & Psychiatry) Cognitive and Systems Neurobiology
Paul E. Greene, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Movement Disorders
H Christian Habeck, PhD Assistant Professor Taub Institute
  Marla Hamberger, PhD Associate Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology Neuropsychology, Epilepsy
W. Allen Hauser, MD Professor of Neurology and Associate Director, Sergievsky Center Neuroepidemiology; Epilepsy
Christopher E. Henderson, PhD Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology, and Pathology & Cell Biology Neurobiology; Motor neuron development
Dale Hesdorffer, PhD Associate Professor
(Sergievsky Center)		 Epilepsy, Neuroepidemiology
Veronica J. Hinton, PhD Associate Professor
(Sergievsky Center)		 Neuropsychology
Michio Hirano, MD
 Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology
 Neuromuscular and Mitochondrial Diseases
Lawrence J. Hirsch, MD
 Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology
 Epilepsy
Lawrence S. Honig, MD, PhD Professor of Clinical Neurology (in the Taub Institute) Aging and Dementia
Susanna E. Horvath, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology Chief of Neurology, The Allen Pavilion
I Antonio Iavarone, MD Associate Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology (in the Herbert Irving Cancer Center) Neuro-oncology; Institute for Cancer Genetics
J Vernice Jackson-Lewis, PhD Associate Research Scientist Movement Disorders
K Steven C. Karceski, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Petra Kaufmann, MD, MSc (on leave of absence) Neuromuscular Diseases
Nikolai Kholodilov, MD Research Scientist Movement Disorders
Peter Kim, MD, PhD Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology and Director, Neurology Clinics Clinical Neurology
M. Richard Koenigsberger, MD Clinical Professor of Neurology & Pediatrics Pediatric Neurology, Neonatal
Neurology
John W. Krakauer, MD Associate Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience Motor Control Physiology; Stroke; Stroke Recovery
L Rose Lai, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Neuro-oncology
  Ronald M. Lazar, PhD Professor of Clinical Neurology Neuropsychology; Stroke; Co-Director, Levine Cerebral Localization Laboratory
Kiwon Lee, MD Assistant Professor Critical Care and NICU
Laura Lennihan, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology; Associate Chair for Inpatient Services aand Clinical Affairs Critical Care and NICU
Dora K. Leung, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology Harlem Hospital
Linda D. Lewis, MD Clinical Professor Emeritus General Neurology
W. Ian Lipkin, MD Jerome and Dawn Green
Professor (also Psychiatry & Epidemiology)		 Molecular Epidemiology and Neurovirology
Elan D. Louis, MD, MSc Professor of Neurology & Epidemiology, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development
(in the Sergievsky Center)		 Epidemiology, Movement Disorders
Robert E. Lovelace, MD Professor Emeritus Neuromuscular Diseases, EMG
M Arthur Mandel, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology Pediatric Neurology
Jennifer J. Manly, PhD Associate Professor (Sergievsky Center) Aging and Dementia
Karen S. Marder, MD, MPH Sally Kerlin Professor of Neurology and Phychiatry; Division Head, Aging & Dementia (Sergievsky Center; Taub Institute) Aging and Dementia
Randolph S. Marshall, MD John & Elizabeth Katte Harris Professor of Neurology; Division Head - Stroke and Cerebrovascular Division Stroke
Stephan A. Mayer, MD Professor of Neurology & Neurological Surgery and Division Head, Critical Care Neurology Critical Care and NICU
Richard Mayeux, MD, MSc Gertrude Sergievsky Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry; Director, Sergievsky Center and Co-Director, Taub Institute Aging and Dementia; Alzheimer Disease
Pietro Mazzoni, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology Movement Disorders; Human Motor Performance
Anil Mendiratta, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Christopher K. Min, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology General Neurology
Armand F. Miranda, MD Professor Emeritus Clinical Pathology
Hiroshi Mitsumoto, MD Wesley J. Howe Professor of Neurology and Division Head, Neuromuscular Diseases Neuromuscular Diseases, ALS
Jay P. Mohr, MD Daniel Sciarra Professor of Neurology Stroke
Umrao R. Monani, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pathology Pathology; Pediatric Neurology
Rajeev Motiwala, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology General Neurology
N Ali B. Naini, PhD Senior Research Scientist in Neurology Biochemical and Diagnostic Genetics
  James M. Noble, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology; Director, Neurology Clerkship Harlem Hospital Center
  Olga Noskin, MD Instructor in Clinical Neurology Stroke
O Marcelo R. Olarte, MD Clinical Professor of Neurology and Division Head, General Neurology General Neurology
Ruth Ottman, PhD Professor of Epidemiology & Neurology (in the Sergievsky Center) Genetic Epidemiology, Epilepsy
P Alison M. Pack, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Epilepsy
Timothy A. Pedley, MD Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Neurology and Chairman; Neurologist-in-Chief Epilepsy, General Neurology
Amanda Pong, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Serge Przedborski, MD Page and William Black Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology Parkinson Disease, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases
Seth Pullman, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology Human Motor Physiology, Movement Disorders, EMG
R Brian Rakitin, PhD Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology Taub Institute, Neuroscience & Neurology
  Stanley R. Resor, Jr., MD Clinical Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
J. Kirk Roberts, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology Clinical Neurology
Steven S. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD John and Elizabeth Harris Professor of Neurology; Division Head, Neuro-oncology
 Neuro-oncology
Lewis P. Rowland, MD Professor of Neurology and Chairman Emeritus Neuromuscular Diseases, ALS
Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD Adjunct Professor Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
S Ralph L. Sacco, MS, MD Adjunct Professor Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
  Oliver Sacks, MD Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry  
  Nikolaos Scarmeas, MD, MSc Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology (Sergievsky Center; Taub Institute) Aging and Dementia
Helen Scharfman, PhD Professor (also Pharmacology) Helen Hayes Hospital
Catherine Schevon, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Michael Schmidt, PhD Assistant Professor Critical Care and NICU
Eric A. Schon, PhD Lewis P. Rowland Professor of Neurology and Genetics Development Mitochondrial Diseases,
Molecular Genetics
Nicole Schupf, PhD Associate Research Scientist
(Sergievsky Center)		 Genetic Epidemiology
Lori Seidman, CPNP Assistant Clinical Professor Pediatric Neurology
Glenn M. Seliger, MD Assistant Clinical Professor (Helen Hayes Hospital) Neurorehabilitation
Stephen Q. Shafer, MD Clinical Professor of Neurology (Harlem Hospital) Clinical Neurology
Neil Shneider, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology
 Neuromuscular Diseases
Reet Sidhu, MD
 Assistant Professor of Neurology
 Pediatric Neurology
Ronald M. Silverman, MD
 Assistant Clinical Professor
 Private Practice
Scott A. Small, MD Associate Professor of Neurology (in the Sergievsky Center & Taub Institute) Aging and Dementia
Christian Stapf, MD Adjunct Assistant Professor Stroke
Leonidas Stefanis, MD Adjunct Assistant Professor University of Athens, Greece
Zena Stein, MA, MB, BCh Professor Emeritus (Sergievsky Center) Developmental Epidemiology
Yaakov Stern, PhD Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology (in the Sergievsky Center) Cognitive Neuroscience; Aging and Dementia
David Sulzer, PhD Professor of Clinical Neurology, Pharmacology and Psychiatry Molecular Neuropharmacology and Neurodegenerative Diseases
T C. Dominique Toran-Allerand, MD Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology and Neurology Anatomy; Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
  Roger D. Traub, MD Adjunct Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
  Mark J. Tullman, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology, Director Columbia Multiple Sclerosis Center Multiple Sclerosis Center
V Miquel Vila, MD, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor (also Neuroscience Research Institute Vall d'Hebron University) Movement Disorders
W Carolyn L. Warner, MD Assistant Clinical Professor Neurology (Allen Pavillion) Neuromuscular Diseases, EMG, Clinical Neurology
  Cheryl Waters, MD Albert B. and Judith I. Glickman Professor of Clinical Neurology Parkinson Disease; Movement Disorders
Louis H. Weimer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology; Director, EMG Laboratory Autonomic Disorders, EMG, Neuromuscular Physiology
Nancy S. Wexler, PhD Eugene Higgins Professor Huntington Disease, Genetic Neurological Diseases
Hynek Wichterle, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology, Pathology and the Center for Neurobiology & Behavior Neurobiology; Neural Stem Cells
Joshua Z. Willey, MD Assistant Professor Stroke
Olajide Williams, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology (Harlem Hospital) Clinical Neurology, EMG, Stroke
Joseph H. Willner, MD Clinical Professor of Neurology
(Englewood Hospital)		 Clinical Neurology
Melodie R. Winawer, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Neurology (in the Sergievsky Center) Epilepsy, Genetic Epidemiology
Clinton B. Wright, MD, MPH Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
Y Ai Yamamoto, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology, and Pathology & Cell Biology Movement Disorders
Z Iris Zhang, PhD Research Scientist Movement Disorders


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