The 20 Best Batten Disease Doctors in The United States

Raymond Wang is a Medical Genetics provider practicing medicine in Orange, California. Dr. Wang is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 50 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), Mucopolysaccharidosis Type 7 (MPS VII, Sly Syndrome), Mucopolysaccharidosis Type 1 (MPS I, Hurler Syndrome), Pompe Disease, and Adenoidectomy.

Erika Augustine is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Rochester, New York. Dr. Augustine is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 9 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Batten Disease, CLN3 Disease, CLN1 Disease, and CLN5 Disease.

Jonathan Mink is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Rochester, New York. Dr. Mink is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 8 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Batten Disease, CLN1 Disease, CLN4 Disease, CLN5 Disease, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Saima Kayani is a Neurologist and a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Kayani is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 49 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Leigh Syndrome, CLN4 Disease, CLN1 Disease, and CLN3 Disease.

Eric Armour is a Pediatrics specialist and a Neurologist practicing medicine in Brighton, Michigan. Dr. Armour is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 34 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Tuberous Sclerosis, and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Dr. Armour is board certified in Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurology W/Spec Qual Child Neuro, and Epilepsy.

Milen Velinov is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dr. Velinov is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 7 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Batten Disease, CLN1 Disease, CLN4 Disease, and CLN5 Disease. Dr. Velinov is currently accepting new patients.

Berge Minassian is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Minassian is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 12 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myoclonic Epilepsy, Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures, Epilepsy, and Batten Disease.

Jennifer Vermilion is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Rochester, New York. Dr. Vermilion is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 11 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Tourette Syndrome, Batten Disease, CLN3 Disease, and CLN1 Disease.

Elizabeth Berry is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Berry is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 19 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Fragile X Syndrome, Niemann-Pick Disease, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Rett Syndrome.

Frederick Marshall is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Rochester, New York. Dr. Marshall is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 18 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Batten Disease, CLN3 Disease, CLN1 Disease, CLN5 Disease, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Jose Abdenur is a Medical Genetics provider practicing medicine in Orange, California. Dr. Abdenur is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 41 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Von Gierke Disease, Glycogen Storage Disease Type 3, Malonyl-CoA Decarboxylase Deficiency, and Hyperlysinemia. Dr. Abdenur is currently accepting new patients.

Cristel Chapel is a Medical Genetics provider practicing medicine in Orange, California. Dr. Chapel is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 20 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses CLN4 Disease, CLN2 Disease, CLN3 Disease, and CLN5 Disease. Dr. Chapel is currently accepting new patients.

Lubov Romantseva is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Romantseva is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 11 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, CLN3 Disease, CLN5 Disease, and Batten Disease.

Donald Phillips is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Orange, California. Dr. Phillips is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 37 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses West Syndrome, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, Epilepsy, and Seizures. Dr. Phillips is currently accepting new patients.

Obehioya Irumudomon is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Lake Success, New York. Dr. Irumudomon is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. Her clinical expertise encompasses Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency Neuronopathy, Genetic Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus (GEFS+), and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure. Dr. Irumudomon is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry & Neurology-Neurophysiology and American Board Of Psychiatry & Neurology-Neurology With Special Qualifications In Child Neurology.

Daniel Arndt is a Neurologist and a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in West Bloomfield, Michigan. He has been practicing medicine for over 23 years. Dr. Arndt is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 24 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Absence Seizure, and Memory Loss. Dr. Arndt is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Arndt is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Bernard Maria is one of the most respected child neurologists in America. He is a fellowship-trained pediatric neurologist and neuro-oncologist with privileges at Morristown Medical Center and Overlook Medical Center. He provides advanced care for children with a variety of neurologic and neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Maria is dual board-certified in pediatrics and in psychiatry and neurology, with special qualifications in child neurology.Listed repeatedly among the Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors and a recipient of distinguished service, leadership and clinical expertise awards, Dr. Maria has garnered local and national recognition. He was the 2018 recipient of the Child Neurology Society’s highest honor, the Hower Award, which is given annually to a single child neurologist for contributions to the field, a first for New Jersey physicians.Dr. Maria has also served on the faculty of the University of Toronto, the University of Florida (division chief, where he received his MBA), the University of Missouri (department chair and pediatrician-in-chief), the Medical University of South Carolina (research institute founding executive director), and Augusta University at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia (department chair and pediatrician-in-chief), mentoring hundreds of medical students and research assistants. His own extensive research portfolio and over 250 publications focus on developing innovative therapies for central nervous system tumors, as well as understanding the genetics of brain malformations.Over the last three decades of clinical practice, Dr. Maria has held many leadership roles including chief resident (Johns Hopkins), program director, division chief, department chair, executive director, and (founding) chief medical officer of the Pediatric Health Improvement Coalition of Georgia. Academically, he has held endowed professorships and chairs and he has had continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health since 2001 for annual Neurobiology of Disease in Children conferences. Currently, Dr. Maria serves as chief of the Child Neurology and Developmental Medicine Division in Atlantic Health System’s Goryeb Children’s Hospital, in addition to holding the academic title of professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the Sydney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Maria is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. His clinical expertise encompasses Tourette Syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), CLN4 Disease, and CLN3 Disease. Dr. Maria is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics and American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Maria is currently accepting new patients.

Elissa G. Yozawitz, MD, is Director of Neonatal Neurology at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Einstein and Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Yozawitz focuses on the neurological management of children, from the neonatal period through adolescence, particularly those with difficult-to-treat seizures. She also specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, stroke and seizures in the newborn. Dr. Yozawitz’s expertise includes electroencephalography (EEG) and state-of-the-art treatments. Dr. Yozawitz is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 12 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses West Syndrome, Epilepsy in Children, Spasmus Nutans, and Epilepsy.

Recent advances have made the discovery of genetic susceptibility loci for complex human phenotypes a reality, including nervous system disorders. The critical next step will be to definitively identify the responsible genes and understand their functions in both health and disease. Our research integrates genetic investigation in human subjects and model organisms, with the goal of understanding brain function and aging, and improving the treatment of neurologic disease. We focus on Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, two incurable neurodegenerative disorders and experimental paradigms for the age-dependent failure of brain cognitive and motor control in humans. Human Genetics: The clinical manifestation of neurodegenerative disease is the culmination of a multi-tiered pathogenic cascade that evolves over decades; understanding how genetic variants impact this causal chain is essential. Although 2 percent of the population over age 65 are clinically diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the defining pathology of disease (alpha-synuclein Lewy bodies) is discovered in 20 percent of brains from population-based autopsy studies. We are, therefore, investigating the impact of genomic variation on directly measured Lewy pathology, neuronal loss in the midbrain substantia nigra, and progressive motor impairment, leveraging human subject cohorts with detailed clinical and pathological data. In complementary investigations, we are deploying biosensor devices to improve detection of Parkinson's-related motor impairment, including the development of quantitative biometric phenotypes for genetic analyses of disease subtypes. We are also performing whole exome sequencing of individuals with familial Parkinson's disease and related disorders, and exploring potential links between inherited pediatric lysosomal and late-onset, adult neurodegenerative diseases. Drosophila Genetics: Despite the promise of current human genetic methods, such as genome-wide association studies and next generation sequencing, they often fail to definitively identify disease susceptibility genes and variants. We are, therefore, taking advantage of the rapid and powerful genetics available in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in order to accelerate the validation of responsible genes and an understanding of their functions in the nervous system, including for disease pathogenesis. Expression of human amyloid-beta, Tau, or alpha-synuclein proteins in the fly nervous system recapitulates many core features of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease pathogenesis. We are testing candidate human susceptibility genes for functional genetic interactions in these fly models of neurodegeneration. Implicated molecular pathways are probed in greater depth, using both Drosophila and human genetic approaches. Current areas of interest include endolysosomal sorting, RNA metabolism/splicing, neuronal cell adhesion, and synaptic mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Dr. Shulman is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. He is also highly rated in 6 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Parkinson's Disease, Movement Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, and Dementia. Dr. Shulman is currently accepting new patients.

Cooking, spending time with my family. Dr. Ames is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Batten Disease. She is also highly rated in 115 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Delayed Growth, Cardiomyopathic Lentiginosis, Cardiofaciocutaneous Syndrome, and Noonan Syndrome. Dr. Ames is board certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics & Genomics, and Medical Biochemical Genetics.