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Dr. Vargas's Biography — Dr. Wendy Vargas is an Assistant Professor in Neurology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and an Attending Neurologist at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center. She is board-certified in Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology. Dr. Vargas is one of a handful of pediatric neurologists with subspecialty training in multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system. She is the program leader for the Pediatric MS and Neuroimmunology Program at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Vargas sees and cares for both adults and children with MS and other related inflammatory disorders of the brain and spine. Dr. Vargas received her Bachelor of Science at Cornell University before obtaining her MD from the State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine. She completed her pediatric residency training at the Children's Hospital in Boston. Following her residency, Dr. Vargas completed a Pediatric Neurology Fellowship at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She went on to complete an additional Fellowship in Multiple Sclerosis and other Demyelinating Diseases at the Weill Cornell Multiple Sclerosis Center, working with adults and children with MS and other demyelinating diseases. Her clinical interests include pediatric and adult multiple sclerosis, acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, pediatric neuromyelitis optica, clinically isolated syndromes such as childhood optic neuritis and transverse myelitis, and other autoimmune diseases of the nervous system. * Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis * ADEM (acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis) * Transverse myelitis * Optic neuritis * Clinically isolated syndrome * Neuromyelitis optica * Autoimmune encephalitis * Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis * Sydenham's Chorea * Opsoclonus Myoclonus Syndrome * CNS Vasculitis * CNS Lupus

Dr. Yugrakh's Biography — Sr. Marianna Shnayderman (Yugrakh) obtained her undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her neurology residency here at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/ The Neurological Institute of New York. She subsequently completed a clinical fellowship in Headache Medicine at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Headache Institute. In addition to caring for patients with all kinds of headache disorders, Dr. Shnayderman is interested in developing a program for patients that are pregnant or undergoing fertility treatments and suffering from intractable headaches with limited treatment options.

Dr. McBrian's Biography — Dr. McBrian recently joined the Child Neurology Department as an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy. Dr. McBrian grew up in New Jersey where she graduated with honors from Rutgers College, in New Brunswick. Subsequently she attended medical school at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University graduating in 2002. She completed a pediatric residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in 2004 at which time she returned to Columbia University to complete fellowships in Child Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology. She is a diplomate of the ABPN in child neurology. Dr. McBrian has a special interest in the treatment of epileptic encephalopathies of infancy and childhood, intractable epilepsy amenable to epilepsy surgery, and use of dietary therapy to manage intractable epilepsy.