14 Results for Pediatric Neurology near Nyack, NY

Dr. Sands's Biography — Tristan Sands, MD, PhD is an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) in the Division of Child Neurology and the Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM). Dr. Sands completed his child neurology residency at the University of California, San Francisco under the mentorship of Dr. Roberta Cilio and epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology fellowships at Columbia University Medical Center under the tutelage of Dr. Cigdem Akman and Dr. James Riviello. Dr. Sands is a pediatric and neonatal neurologist and epileptologist with clinical and research experience in seizures, epilepsies and epileptic encephalopathies resulting from genetic causes. His research into treatments for genetic epilepsy has demonstrated that benign familial neonatal seizures caused by mutation of the KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 genes show a universal response to carbamazepine and that early use of carbamazepine reduces the length of hospital admission for these newborns. Dr. Sands will be evaluating epilepsy patients with putative genetic etiologies in a new Translational Medicine Clinic for the Genetic Epilepsies and conducting research on precision medicine for the genetic epilepsies with the IGM.

Dr. Lowenstein's Biography — Dr. Daniel Lowenstein is an assistant professor of neurology at CUMC, in the Division of Child Neurology. Dr. Lowenstein completed his medical doctorate at Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine in Israel, followed by residency training at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and fellowship training in epilepsy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is board certified in Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology. Dr. Lowenstein sees outpatient pediatric neurology patients, with a focus on pediatric epilepsy, and is also an attending in the pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital.

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