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EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION:



Richard Mayeux, MD, MSc Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry & Epidemiology
Chairman, Department of Neurology
Neurologist-in-Chief
Laura Lennihan, MD Vice-Chair Department of Neurology, Chief, Neurology Inpatient Services
Blair Ford, MD Director, Neurology Residency Training Program
Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, MS, MPhil Director, Fellowship Programs
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
Louis H. Weimer, MD Head, Neurology QA/QI Program
Olajide Williams, MD Chief Medical Officer
Mihaela Negrutiu, EMPH Department Administrator/CFO
Vincent Santana, MBA, EMPH Chief Administrative Officer

DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY FACULTY:
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | W | Y | Z |
Faculty Title Division
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Asa Abeliovich, MD, PhD
 Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurology Taub Institute
Cigdem I. Akman, MD
 Associate Clinical Professor; Chief of Pediatric Epilepsy Pediatric Neurology
Roy N. Alcalay, MD, MS
 Assistant Professor of Neurology Movement Disorders
Gary S. Alweiss, MD
 Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology
(Englewood Hospital)		 Clinical Neurology
B
Neeraj Badjatia, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology;
Director, NICU 		Critical Care 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
 Clinical Professor of Neurology 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; Director, Peripheral Neuropathy Center; Associate Director, EMG Laboratory Peripheral Neuropathy Center
Carl W. Braun, MD
 Clinical Professor (St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital) Clinical Neurology
Adam M. Brickman, PhD Irving Assistant Professor of Neuropychology Taub Institute and The Sergievsky Center
Carolyn B. Britton, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology Viral infections, HIV, Lyme disease, Immune Disorders
John C. M. Brust, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology and Chief of Neurology Service (Harlem Hospital) Neurohospitalist Service
Robert E. Burke, MD Alfred and Minnie Bressler Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology; Director, Parkinson's Disease Research Laboratories Parkinson Disease and other Movement Disorders;
Neurodegenerative Diseases
C
Elise Caccappolo Van Vliet, PhD Associate Clinical Professor of Neuropsychology Aging and Dementia, Neuropsychology
Maureen Cafferty, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology (St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital) Clinical Neurology
Joshua Cappell, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology Pediatric Neurology
Paul-Henri Cesar MD Assistant Clinical Professor;
Director, Headache Medicine		 Columbia Eastside
Claudia Chiriboga, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology & Clinical Pediatrics; Interim Division Head Pediatric Neurology
Hyunmi Choi, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
 Epilepsy
Derek Chong, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Jan Claassen, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Critical Care and NICU
Stephanie Cosentino, PhD Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology The Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute
Lucien J. Côté, MD Professor Emeritus of Neurology Parkinson Disease
D
Michael Daras, MD Clinical Professor of Neurology General Neurology
Darryl C. De Vivo, MD Sidney Carter Professor of Neurology & Pediatrics; Associate Chair for Pediatric Neuroscience;
Co-Director, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease		 Pediatric Neurology, Metabolic Disorders, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease
Salvatore DiMauro, MD Lucy G. Moses Professor of Neurology; Director Emeritus, H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center; 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 of Neurology Neuropsychology, Epilepsy
E
Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, MS, MPhil
Associate Professor of Neurology and Associate Chair, Clinical Research and Training
 Stroke
Ronald G. Emerson, MD Adjunct Professor of Clinical Neurology 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; Director, Neurology Residency Training Program; Medical Director, Movement Disorders Surgery Movement Disorders
G
Eugenia T. Gamboa, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology Clinical Neurology
Arnold P. Gold, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical Pediatrics Pediatric Neurology
Michael E. Goldberg, MD David Mahoney Professor of Brain & Behavior (in Neuroscience, Neurology & Psychiatry); Center Director 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 Emeritus of Neurology and Epidemiology (Sergievsky Center) Neuroepidemiology; Epilepsy
Christopher E. Henderson, PhD Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology, and Pathology & Cell Biology; Co-Director, Motor Neuron Center Neurobiology; Motor neuron development
Dale Hesdorffer, PhD Associate Professor
(Sergievsky Center)		 Epilepsy, Neuroepidemiology
Veronica J. Hinton, PhD Associate Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
(Sergievsky Center)		 Neuropsychology
Michio Hirano, MD
 Professor of Neurology; Medical Director H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center
 Neuromuscular and Mitochondrial Diseases
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; Stroke
Edward (Ted) D. Huey, MD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology (in the Taub Institute) Taub Institute; Aging and Dementia
I
Antonio Iavarone, MD Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology (in the Herbert Irving Cancer Center) Neuro-oncology; Institute for Cancer Genetics
Fabio M. Iwamoto, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology and Deputy Director of the Division of Neuro-Oncology Neuro-oncology
J
Vernice Jackson-Lewis, PhD Research Scientist Movement Disorders
Sarah C. Janicki, MD, MPH Instructor in Clinical Neurology Aging and Dementia
K
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; Director, Neurology Clinics Clinical Neurology
M. Richard Koenigsberger, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology & Pediatrics Pediatric Neurology, Neonatal
Neurology
John W. Krakauer, MD Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurology Motor Control Physiology; Stroke; Stroke Recovery
L
Andrew B. Lassman, MD Associate Professor of Neurology; Director, Neuro-Oncology Neuro-Oncology
Ronald M. Lazar, PhD Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology in Neurology and Neurological Surgery; Co-Director, Cerebral Localization Laboratory Neuropsychology; Stroke; Levine Cerebral Localization Laboratory
Kiwon Lee, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery Critical Care and NICU
Laura Lennihan, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology; Director, Neurology Inpatient Services Critical Care and NICU
Oren Levy, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology Movement Disorders
Linda D. Lewis, MD Clinical Professor Emeritus of Neurology General Neurology
W. Ian Lipkin, MD John Snow Professor of Epidemiology, Neurology, Pathology and Cell Biology Molecular Epidemiology and Neurovirology
Elan D. Louis, MD, MS Professor of Neurology & Epidemiology (in the Sergievsky Center), Associate Chair for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development
Epidemiology, Movement Disorders
Robert E. Lovelace, MD Professor Emeritus Neuromuscular Diseases, EMG
M
Arthur Mandel, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics Pediatric Neurology
Jennifer J. Manly, PhD Associate Professor of Neurology (Sergievsky Center) Aging and Dementia
Karen S. Marder, MD, MPH Sally Kerlin Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry; Division Head, Aging & Dementia (Sergievsky Center; Taub Institute) Aging and Dementia
Randolph S. Marshall, MD, MS John & Elisabeth Katte Harris Professor of Neurology; Division Head - Stroke and Cerebrovascular Division Stroke
Stephan A. Mayer, MD Professor of Neurology & Neurological Surgery; Division Head, Critical Care Neurology Critical Care and NICU
Richard Mayeux, MD, MSc Gertrude Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology; Chairman, Neurologist-in-Chief Aging and Dementia; Alzheimer Disease
Pietro Mazzoni, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neurology Movement Disorders; Human Motor Performance
Danielle K. McBrian, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Pediatric Neurology/Epilepsy
Anil Mendiratta, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Christopher K. Min, MD, PhD Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow Movement Disorders
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 & Cell Biology Pathology; Pediatric Neurology
N
Ali B. Naini, PhD Director, Laboratories of Metabolic and Mitochondrial Diseases; Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Cell Biology 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
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
Shanna K. Patterson, MD Assistant Clinical Professor EMG, Neuromuscular Disease and General Neurology
Toni Pearson, MD Instructor in Neurology Pediatric Neurology and Movement Disorders
Timothy A. Pedley, MD Professor of Neurology Epilepsy, General Neurology
Amanda Pong, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Serge Przedborski, MD, PhD Page and William Black Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Cell Biology;
Co-Director, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease		 Parkinson Disease, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases
Seth Pullman, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology; Director, Clinical Motor Physiology Laboratory Human Motor Physiology, Movement Disorders, EMG
R
Claire Riley, MD Assistant Professor; Director, Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care & Research Center Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Care & Research Center
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; Medical Director, Neurology Faculty Practice Clinical Neurology
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 of Neuropharmacology (in Neurology and Pharmacology) Helen Hayes Hospital
Catherine Schevon, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology Epilepsy
Michael Schmidt, PhD Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology Critical Care and NICU
Eric A. Schon, PhD Lewis P. Rowland Professor of Neurology and Genetics & Development Mitochondrial Diseases,
Molecular Genetics
Nicole Schupf, PhD Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
(Sergievsky Center)		 Genetic Epidemiology
Lori Seidman, CPNP Assistant Clinical Professor Pediatric Neurology
Glenn M. Seliger, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology (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 Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics
 Pediatric Neurology
Ronald M. Silverman, MD
 Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology
 Private Practice
Scott A. Small, MD Herbert Irving Professor of Neurology (in the Sergievsky Center & Taub Institute) Aging and Dementia
Christian Stapf, MD Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology Stroke
Leonidas Stefanis, MD Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology 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
V
Miquel Vila, MD, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor (also Neuroscience Research Institute Vall d'Hebron University) Movement Disorders
W
Carolyn L. Warner, MD Associate Clinical Professor of 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 Professor of Clinical Neurology; Director, EMG Laboratory Autonomic Disorders, EMG, Neuromuscular Physiology
Nancy S. Wexler, PhD Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry 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 of Neurology Stroke
Olajide Williams, MD Chief of Staff of Neurology; Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology;
Director Acute Stroke Services;		 Clinical Neurology, 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, MS Adjunct Associate 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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