Faculty Profiles

	Executive Administration
	Timothy A. Pedley, MD	Henry and Lucy Moses Professor 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 and Director, Neurology Clerkship
	Susanna Horvath, MD	Chief, Allen Pavilion Neurology Service
	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
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	Faculty	Title	Division
A	Asa Abeliovich, MD	Associate Professor (also Pathology; Taub Institute)	Neurobiology of Neurodegeneration
	Steven M. Albert, PhD	Adjunct Associate Professor (Sergievsky Center)	Neuropsychology, Aging and Dementia; End of Life Issues
	Gary S. Alweiss, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor (Englewood Hospital)	Clinical Neurology
	Jinsy Andrews, MD	Instructor	Neuromuscular Diseases
B	Neeraj Badjatia, MD	Assistant Professor	Critical Care Neurology
	Casilda Balmaceda, MD	Associate Clinical Professor	Neuro-oncology
	Robert E. Barrett, MD	Clinical Professor	Clinical Neurology
	Carl W. Bazil, MD, PhD	Associate Professor and Interim Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center	Epilepsy; Sleep
	Karen L. Bell, MD	Associate Clinical Professor	Aging and Dementia
	Bernadette Boden-Albala, PhD	Assistant Professor	Stroke; Sociomedical Sciences
	Thomas H Brannagan III, MD	Associate Professor	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 and Chief of Neurology	Harlem Hospital Center
	Robert E. Burke, MD	Alfred and Minnie Bressler Professor	Parkinson Disease and other Movement Disorders; Neurodegenerative Diseases
C	Elise Caccappolo, PhD	Assistant Clinical Professor	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 and Interim Division Head	Pediatric Neurology
	Hyunmi Choi, MD	Assistant Professor	Epilepsy
	Derek Chong, MD	Assistant Professor	Epilepsy
	Ji Y Chong, MD	Assistant Professor	Stroke and Critical Care
	Jan Claassen, MD	Assistant Professor	Critical Care and NICU
	Lucien J. Côté, MD	Professor Emeritus	Parkinson Disease
D	Michael Daras, MD	Clinical Professor	General Neurology
	William T. Dauer, MD	Assistant Professor (also Pharmacology)	Movement Disorders and Neurodegenerative Diseases
	Mercy Davidson, PhD	Senior Research Scientist	Merritt Research Center
	Darryl C. De Vivo, MD	Sidney Carter Professor & Associate Chairman for Pediatric Neuroscience	Pediatric Neurology, Metabolic Disorders, Pediatric Neuromuscular Disease
	Salvatore DiMauro, MD	Lucy G. Moses Professor and Associate Chair, Laboratory Research and Training	Neuromuscular Biochemistry; Mitochondrial Disorders
	Fiona K. Doetsch, PhD	Assistant Professor (also Pathology and the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior)	Neurobiology; Neural stem cells
	Evan B. Drake, PhD	Assistant Clinical Professor	Neuropsychology, Epilepsy
E	Mitchell S. Elkind, MD, MPH	Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Clinical Research and Training	Stroke
	Ronald G. Emerson, MD	Professor and Head, Information Systems Group	Clinical Neurophysiology
F	Stanley Fahn, MD	H. Houston Merritt Professor and Division Head, Movement Disorders	Movement Disorders
	Joanne Festa, PhD	Assistant Professor	Stroke, Neuropsychology
	Blair Ford, MD	Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Education	Movement Disorders
	Steven Frucht, MD	Associate Professor	Movement Disorders
G	Eugenia T. Gamboa, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor	Clinical Neurology
	Frank Gilliam, MD, MPH	Professor	Neurology
	Arnold P. Gold, MD	Professor	Pediatric Neurology
	Michael E. Goldberg, MD	David Mahoney Professor (also Psychiatry and Neuroscience)	Cognitive and Systems Neurobiology
	Mark W. Green, MD	Clinical Professor	Headache and Facial Pain
	Paul E. Greene, MD	Associate Professor	Movement Disorders
H	Christian Habeck, PhD	Assistant Professor	Taub Institute
	Marla Hamberger, PhD	Associate Professor	Neuropsychology, Epilepsy
	W. Allen Hauser, MD	Professor and Associate Director, Sergievsky Center	Neuroepidemiology; Epilepsy
	Christopher E. Henderson, PhD	Professor (also Pathology and Center for Neurobiology & Behavior)	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	Associate Professor	Neuromuscular and Mitochondrial Diseases
	Lawrence J. Hirsch, MD	Associate Clinical Professor	Epilepsy
	Lawrence S. Honig, MD, PhD	Associate Professor	Aging and Dementia
	Susanna Horvath, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor	Chief of Neurology, The Allen Pavilion
I	Antonio Iavarone, MD	Associate Professor (also Pathology and Cell Biology)	Neuro-oncology; Institute for Cancer Genetics
J	Diane Jacobs, MD	Adjunct Associate Research Scientist (Sergievsky Center)	Neuropsychology
	Vernice Jackson-Lewis, PhD	Associate Research Scientist	Movement Disorders
K	Steven C. Karceski, MD	Associate Clinical Professor	Epilepsy
	Petra Kaufmann, MD, MPH	Irving Assistant Professor	Neuromuscular Diseases
	Nikolai Kholodilov, MD	Research Scientist	Movement Disorders
	Peter Kim, MD, PhD	Associate Clinical Professor and Director, Neurology Clinics	Clinical Neurology
	Jennie Kline, PhD	Adjunct Professor (Sergievsky Center)	Neuroepidemiology
	M. Richard Koenigsberger, MD	Clinical Professor	Pediatric Neurology, Neonatal Neurology
	John W. Krakauer, MD	Associate Professor	Motor Control Physiology; Stroke; Stroke Recovery
L	Rose Lai, MD	Assistant Professor	Neuro-oncology
	Ronald M. Lazar, PhD	Professor	Neuropsychology; Stroke; Co-Director, Levine Cerebral Localization Laboratory
	Kiwon Lee, MD	Assistant Professor	Critical Care and NICU
	Laura Lennihan, MD	Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Inpatient Services aand Clinical Affairs	Stroke and Critical Care
	Dora K. Leung, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor	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 and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development (also Epidemiology and the Sergievsky Center)	Epidemiology, Movement Disorders
	Robert E. Lovelace, MD	Professor Emeritus	Neuromuscular Diseases, EMG
M	Arthur Mandel, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor	Pediatric Neurology
	Jennifer J. Manly, PhD	Associate Professor (Sergievsky Center)	Aging and Dementia
	Karen S. Marder, MD	Sally Kerlin Professor and Division Head, Aging & Dementia (Sergievsky Center; Taub Institute)	Aging and Dementia
	Randolph S. Marshall, MD	Professor and Division Head, Stroke	Stroke
	Stephan A. Mayer, MD	Associate Professor and Division Head, NICU	Critical Care and NICU
	Richard Mayeux, MD, MPH	Gertrude Sergievsky Professor; Director, Sergievsky Center and Co-Director, Taub Institute	Aging and Dementia; Alzheimer Disease
	Pietro Mazzoni, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor	Movement Disorders; Human Motor Performance
	Anil Mendiratta, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor	Epilepsy
	Christopher K. Min, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor	General Neurology
	Armand F. Miranda, MD	Professor Emeritus	Clinical Pathology
	Hiroshi Mitsumoto, MD	Wesley J. Howe Professor and Division Head, Neuromuscular Diseases	Neuromuscular Diseases, ALS
	James Moeller, PhD	Assistant Professor	Psychiatry
	Jay P. Mohr, MD	Daniel Sciarra Professor	Stroke
	Umrao R. Monani, PhD	Assistant Professor	Pathology; Pediatric Neurology
	Herman Moreno, MD	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Aging and Dementia; SUNY-Brooklyn
	Rajeev Motiwala, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor	General Neurology
N	Ali B. Naini, PhD	Senior Research Scientist	Biochemical and Diagnostic Genetics
	James M. Noble, MD	Assistant Professor	Harlem Hospital Center
	Olga Noskin, MD	Instructor in Clinical Neurology	Stroke
O	Marcelo R. Olarte, MD	Clinical Professor and Division Head, General Neurology	General Neurology
	Ruth Ottman, PhD	Professor (also Epidemiology & Sergievsky Center)	Genetic Epidemiology, Epilepsy
P	Alison M. Pack, MD	Assistant Professor	Epilepsy
	Timothy A. Pedley, MD	Henry and Lucy Moses Professor and Chairman; Neurologist-in-Chief	Epilepsy, General Neurology
	Serge Przedborski, MD	Page and William Black Professor of Neurology; (also Pathology and Cell Biology and the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior)	Parkinson Disease, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases
	Seth Pullman, MD	Professor	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	Epilepsy
	J. Kirk Roberts, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor	Clinical Neurology
	Steven S. Rosenfeld, MD, PhD	John and Elizabeth Harris Professor; Division Head, Neuro-oncology	Neuro-oncology
	Lewis P. Rowland, MD	Professor 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, FAAN, FAHA	Adjunct Professor	Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
	Oliver Sacks, MD	Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
	Nikolaos Scarmeas, MD	Assistant Professor (Sergievsky Center; Taub Institute)	Aging and Dementia
	Helen Scharfman, PhD	Associate Professor (also Pharmacology)	Helen Hayes Hospital
	Catherine Schevon, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor	Epilepsy
	Michael Schmidt, PhD	Assistant Professor	Critical Care and NICU
	Eric A. Schon, PhD	Lewis P. Rowland Professor of Neurology (also 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 (Harlem Hospital)	Clinical Neurology
	Sara Shankse, PhD	Senior Research Scientist	Merritt Research Center
	Reet Sidhu, MD	Assistant Professor	Pediatric Neurology
	Ronald M. Silverman, MD	Assistant Clinical Professor	Private Practice
	Scott A. Small, MD	Associate Professor (also Sergievsky Center; Taub Institute)	Aging and Dementia
	Christian Stapf, MD	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Stroke and Critical Care
	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 (Sergievsky Center)	Cognitive Neuroscience; Aging and Dementia
	David Sulzer, PhD	Associate Professor (also Psychiatry and Pharmacology)	Molecular Neuropharmacology and Neurodegenerative Diseases
T	C. Dominique Toran-Allerand, MD	Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology and Neurology	Anatomy; Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
	Mark J. Tullman, MD	Assistant Professor, 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 (Allen Pavillion)	Neuromuscular Diseases, EMG, Clinical Neurology
	Cheryl Waters, MD	Albert and Judith Glickman Professor	Parkinson Disease; Movement Disorders
	Louis H. Weimer, MD	Associate Clinical Professor; 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 (also Pathology and Center for Neurobiology & Behavior)	Neurobiology; Neural Stem Cells
	Olajide Williams, MD	Assistant Professor (Harlem Hospital)	Clinical Neurology, EMG, Stroke
	Joseph H. Willner, MD	Clinical Professor (Englewood Hospital)	Clinical Neurology
	Melodie R. Winawer, MD, MS	Assistant Professor (Sergievsky Center)	Epilepsy, Genetic Epidemiology
	Clinton B. Wright, MD, MPH	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
Z	Iris Zhang, PhD	Research Scientist	Movement Disorders

Faculty Profiles

Executive Administration

Department of Neurology Faculty