Helping folks live their best lives – by diagnosing and managing complex neurologic disorders – that’s my job. Few things are more fulfilling! For nearly thirty years, my focus has been on brain health, concussions, Alzheimer’s and other dementias, menopause related memory loss, and pain.  I am very lucky to work with an exceptionally talented and caring team at Park Avenue Neurology, our premier center dedicated to brain health and research in New York City. Our emphasis is on neuromodulation for treating stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s and movement disorders, and chronic pain.

Being multi board-certified in Neurology, Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine, and Behavioral Neurology gives me a comprehensive approach to brain health and illness (Biography). Losing my extraordinary sister and my amazing mother to neurologic illness and helping my devoted caregiver father is my enduring inspiration to innovate. I love educating folks on brain health, through my books and via media, including CBS, NPR, the NYT, and the WSJ.  One of my proudest accomplishments was founding and running the “Girls Get Healthy” program at the National Council on Women’s Health, providing for-credit health and sex education classes to 1100 inner-city middle and high-school girls annually for over a decade. 

Previously on the faculty at Columbia and NYU, I am now a Professor at the Zucker SOM | Northwell Health & Lenox Hill Hospital. I serve as Consultant to the NYS Committee on Physician Health, sit on the Board of Overseers of Columbia University’s SPS, on the Board of Trustees of Central Park, and on the Board of Directors of CaringKind, NYC’s premier dementia caregiving organization. In my off-time, I enjoy dinners with family and friends, the opera, baseball, horseback riding, and perennial gardening.

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