The Department of Neurology is OPEN. We will open our outpatient practices on May 11th, 2020, and also continue to offer Video Visits.
For information about COVID-19, please read our COVID-19 patient guide. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have reduced face-to-face patient encounters. However, our team of Neurologists can handle a lot of your follow-up and new neurologic care via a Video Visit. Video Visits are also available for follow-up appointments and new patient visits to New York State, Florida, New Jersey and Connecticut residents. Please call (212) 746-2596 to schedule a Video Visit.
Neurology & Neuroscience Grand Rounds Lectures
Time: 8:30 A.M. - 9:30 A.M.
Location: F 639
2018-2019 Grand Rounds Schedule
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Title of Talk: The Vestibulocerebellar Basis for the Mal de Debarquement Syndrome
Speaker Name: Catherine Cho, MD
Academic Title: Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: New York University School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Title of Talk: T cell-based immunotherapy for gliomas
Speaker Name: Hideho Okada, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Kathleen M. Plant Distinguished Professor in Neurological Surgery
Academic Affiliation: University of California San Francisco
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Title of Talk: Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmic Studies from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Speaker Name: Grant Liu, MD
Academic Title: Perelman Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmology, Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology Academic
Affiliation: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
CANCELLED
Wednesday January 2, 2019
Title of Talk: TBA
Speaker Name:
Academic Title: TBA
Academic Affiliation: TBA
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Title of Talk: The Role of Family Caregivers in Supporting People with Cognitive Impairments
Speaker Name: Sara J. Czaja Ph.D.
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Gerontology in Medicine
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Title of Talk: Controversial Aspects of Determination of Brain Death
Speaker Name: Ariane Lewis, MD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: NYU Langone School of Medicine
Wednesday January 23, 2019
Title of Talk: Clinicopathological Conference
Speaker Name: Brian Andersen MD PhD / Silky Pahlajani MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neuropsychiatry in Clinical Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Title of Talk: Cell-based therapies to treat multiple sclerosis
Speaker Name: Jeffrey A Cohen, MD
Academic Title: Professor and Hazel Prior Hostetler Endowed Chair,
Director, Experimental Therapeutics, Mellen Center for MS Treatment and Research
Academic Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Title of Talk: Investigating the development of neural systems in children with disorders of development
Speaker Name: Bradley L. Schlaggar, M.D. Ph.D.
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Title of Talk: Using population-based data linkages to investigate multiple sclerosis epidemiology in Canada (& potential application to the gut microbiome)
Speaker Name: Helen Tremlett, Ph.D
Academic Title: Professor, Research Chair in Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis
Academic Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Title of Talk: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Concussion: a Physiological Approach
Speaker Name: John J. Leddy MD, FACSM, FACP
Academic Title: Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Sciences
Academic Affiliation: State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Title of Talk: Cerebral Vasculopathies in Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke: Progress and Prospects for Treatment
Speaker Name: Rebecca N. Ichord, M.D.
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Title of Talk: Preventing Dementia by Preventing Stroke: Evidence from Epidemiology
Speaker Name: Rebecca Gottesman, M.D. Ph.D.
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Title of Talk: Immune-Inflammatory Changes and Progressive Neurodegeneration after Traumatic Brain or Spinal Cord Injury
Speaker Name: Alan I Faden, M.D.
Academic Title: David S. Brown Professor in Trauma and University of Maryland Professor
Associate Dean for Trans-Campus Research Advancement
Academic Affiliation: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Title of Talk: Applications of 'Big' Data-Translational Neuroepidemiology Research
Speaker Name: Allison Willis MD, MS
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Title of Talk: The Ketogenic Diet: What it is and How it Works
Speaker Name: Carl E. Stafstrom, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Lederer Endowed Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy
Academic Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Title of Talk: Ending Parkinson Disease
Speaker Name: E. Ray Dorsey, MD. MBA
Academic Title: David M. Levy Professor in Neurology
Academic Affiliation: University of Rochester Medical Center
Wednesday April 10, 2019
Title of Talk: Clinicopathological Conference
Speaker Name: Ulrike Kaunzner, MD, Ph.D
Speaker Name: Brian Andersen, MD, Ph.D
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medicine
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Title of Talk: Neurogenetics at Weill Cornell Medicine
Speaker Name: Margaret Elizabeth Ross, MD, Ph.D
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience
Speaker Name: Shenela Lakhani, M.Sc., CGC, CCGC
Academic Title: Instructor in Neuroscience
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medicine
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Title of Talk: Want Women to Advance in Medicine: Be a Sponsor
Speaker Name: Allison Brashear, MD, MBA
Academic Title: Professor & Chair of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Winston Salem, NC
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Title of Talk: Cerebellar-Medullary Compression Syndrome: A unifying algorithm for Diagnosis and Management of Chiari Malformation
Speaker Name: Jeffrey P. Greenfield, MD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medicine
Wednesday May 8, 2019
AAN
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Title of Talk: The importance of cerebral pial collaterals in acute stroke: Investigating the potential for augmentation as a neuroprotective tool.
Speaker Name: Ashfaq Shuaib, MD, FRCPC, FAHA
Academic Title: Professor, Department of Medicine and Director of Stroke Program
Academic Affiliation: University of Alberta, Edmonton
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Title of Talk: Alzheimer's Prevention and the Weill Cornell Women's Brain Initiative
Speaker Name: Lisa Mosconi PhD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neuroscience in Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medicine
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Title of Talk: The Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project: Current and Future Applications
Speaker Name: Richar Mayeux MD
Academic Title: Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professor and Chair of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Columbia University
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Title of Talk: Reserve against Disease and Disability Progression in Multiple Sclerosis
Speaker Name: James F. Sumowski PhD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurology & of Psychiatry
Academic Affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Title of Talk: The Neurobiology of Migraine
Speaker Name: Rami Burstein PhD
Academic Title: John Hedley-Whyte Professor of Anaesthesia and Neuroscience
Academic Affiliation: Harvard Medical School
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Title of Talk: B Cell Targeted Treatment in Myasthenia Gravis (BeatMG): A Phase II Trial of Rituximab in Myasthenia Gravis: What did we learn.
Speaker Name: Jonathan M. Goldstein, MD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Weill Medical College/Hospital for Special Surgery
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Title of Talk: Epigenetic Regulation in Glioma: Novel Drivers and Therapeutic Opportunities
Speaker Name: Richard E. Phillips MD PhD
Academic Title: Assistant Attending, Brain Tumor Service, Department of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Title of Talk: Treatment resistant sleepiness: new cause, new therapies
Speaker Name: Andrew Jenkins PhD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
Academic Affiliation: Emory University School of Medicine
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Title of Talk: Cryptogenic Stroke: The Final Frontier
Speaker Name: Scott Kasner MD MSCE
Academic Title: Ruth M. and Tristram C. Coklet, Jr. President’s Distinguished Professor
Academic Affiliation: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennysylvania
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Title of Talk: Seizures, epileptiform, and no-so-epileptiform EEG activity in the ICU: Experience from a large consortium study
Speaker Name: Jong Woon Lee MDcM PhD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
2013-2014 Grand Rounds Schedule
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
TIA Revisited
Speaker Name: Daniel Labovitz, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neurology and Radiology
Academic Affiliation: Montefiore Medical Center
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Progress of Immunotherapy for Alzheimer's Disease
Speaker Name: Norman Relkin, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neuroscience
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical Center
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Evolution of chronic migraine: Diagnosis, treatment and prospects for prevention
Speaker Name: Richard B. Lipton, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
Academic Affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Neurologic Complications of HIV: They Haven’t Gone Away
Speaker Name: David Simpson MD, FAAN
Academic Title: Director, Neuro-AIDS Program
Academic Affiliation: Mount Sinai Medical Center
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Updates in Neurolaryngology
Speaker Name: Bridget Carey, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Translational Neuro-Oncology: Two Novel Compounds to Consider
Speaker Name: Bernard Maria, MD, MBA
Academic Title: Medical Director at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia
Academic Affiliation: Medical College of Georgia
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
BIRS or SIRS? How the Brain Hurts the Body
Speaker Name: Axel Rosengart, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Robotics in Human Motor Recovery
Speaker Name: Dylan Edwards, PhD, PT
Academic Title: Director, Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and Human Motor Control Laboratory
Academic Affiliation: Burke Rehabilitation Center
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Alzheimer's Pharmacotherapy: Where are we and where do we go from here?
Speaker Name: Marc Gordon, MD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry
Academic Affiliation: Hofstra North Shore – LIJ School of Medicine
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Endovascular treatment of aneurysms in 2013
Speaker Name: Pierre Gobin, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Radiology in Neurological Surgery
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical Center
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Reconsidering MRI as a Tool to Understand the Biology of Multiple Sclerosis
Speaker Name: Daniel Reich, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Chief, Translational Neuroradiology Unit
Academic Affiliation: NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
The History of Neurology Residency Training in the U.S.
Speaker Name: Ralph G. Jozefowicz, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: University of Rochester Medical Center
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
HOLIDAY — NO GRAND ROUNDS
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
TMS/Sport Neurology
Speaker Name: Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Academic Affiliation: Harvard Medical Center
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Speaker Name: Christian Grommes, MD
Academic Title: Neuro-oncology Fellow
Academic Affiliation: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Neuromonitoring in Pediatric TBI
Speaker Name: Jose Pineda, MD
Academic Title: Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Neurology, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Academic Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
HOLIDAY — NO GRAND ROUNDS
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
HOLIDAY — NO GRAND ROUNDS
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Musician Dystonia
Speaker Name: Steven Frucht, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Essential tremor
Speaker Name: Elan Louis, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Epidemiology
Academic Affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Deep brain stimulation to increase consciousness during seizures
Speaker Name: Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology and of Neurosurgery; Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC)
Academic Affiliation: Yale University Medical Center
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Innovative approaches to stroke education for high risk communities: from Hip Hop to Gospel
Speaker Name: Olajide Williams, MD
Academic Title: Chief of Staff of Neurology, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Columbia University Medical Center
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
What’s the Prognosis: Why Do You Want to Know?
Speaker Name: J. Claude Hemphill III, MD
Academic Title: Kenneth Rainin Chair in Neurocritical Care, Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery
Academic Affiliation: UCSF Medical Center
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Clinicopathologic Conference
Speaker Name: Matthew E. Fink, MD
Academic Title: Feil Professor & Chair of Neurology, Assistant Dean of Clinical Affairs
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Update on Stroke Prevention
Speaker Name: Richard B. Libman, MD, FRCP(C)
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: LIJ Health Systems
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Clinical Genetics of Parkinson’s Disease: An Update
Speaker Name: Rachel Saunders-Pullman, MD, MPH, MS
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Coagulopathy after TBI
Speaker Name: Monisha Kumar, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Clinicopathologic Conference
Speaker Name: Dara Jamieson, MD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Epilepsy and Genetics
Speaker Name: Ruben Kuzniecky, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: NYU Langone Medical Center
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Locomotion & Cognition in Aging
Speaker Name: Joe Verghese, MB, BS
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Early Brain Injury after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Speaker Name: Jennifer Frontera, MD, FNCS
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Medicine (Neurology)
Academic Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
ICH/SAH
Speaker Name: Matthew Maas, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor in Neurology and Anesthesiology
Academic Affiliation: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Recent Advances in the Management of Alzheimer’s disease: Nutritional and other low-risk interventions
Speaker Name: Richard Isaacson, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neurology (Education)
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
MS
Speaker Name: Peter Calabresi, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Grand Rounds on April 30 has been canceled due to American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Resident Research Day
Speaker Name: Neurology Residents
Academic Title: Clinical Associates in Neurology; Senior Clinical Associates in Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Carotid Artery Disease in 2014 and Beyond
Speaker Name: Thomas Brott, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Deep Brain Stimulation to Increase Consciousness during Seizures
Speaker Name: Hal Blumenfeld, MD, Ph.D.
Academic Title: Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Acute Stroke Imaging
Speaker Name: Feliks Koyfman, MD
Academic Title: Director of Vascular Laboratory
Academic Affiliation: Winthrop-University Hospital
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Focal Cortical Dysplasia and Neural Network Organization: Lessons from Epilepsy Surgery
Speaker Name: Michael Samuel Duchowny, MD
Academic Title: Clinical Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Florida International University College of Medicine
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Venous Sinus Stenting for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: The Cornell Experience
Speaker Name: Marc Dinkin, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in Neurology
Speaker Name: Athos Patsalides, MD
Academic Title: Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Academic Affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
H.I.N.T.S. to I.N.F.A.R.C.T.: Recent Advances in Diagnosing Stroke in Acute Dizziness and Vertigo
Speaker Name: David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD
Academic Title: Associate Professor of Neurology
Academic Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Title of Talk: What can we learn from pediatric MS?
Speaker Name: Emmanuelle Waubant, MD
Academic Title: Professor of Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics
Academic Affiliation: University of California San Francisco