The 20 Best Benign Rolandic Epilepsy Doctors Near Me in Bronx, NY

Dr. Sheryl Haut is Director of the Adult Epilepsy Program at Montefiore. She has extensive experience treating all forms of epilepsy in young and older adults, and in tailoring treatments to the individual. She focuses on special needs such as pregnancy, stress, driving, work related issues, and issues in the elderly. Dr. Haut has an extensive research background, including a Masters of Clinical Research with Distinction from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her research interests focus on seizure clustering; seizure prediction and pre-emption; and alternative therapies for epilepsy. She is one of the first investigators to run a clinical trial of stress management for epilepsy, using smartphone diaries. Dr. Haut is the current Chair of the North American Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy, and is active nationally in the American Epilepsy Society, and the American Academy of Neurology, serving on committees of both organizations. She has authored more than 50 papers/book chapters on epilepsy, and has been featured in Top Doctors of NY annually since 2009. She maintains an active adult epilepsy practice at the Moses Campus. Dr. Haut is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 10 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Epilepsy, Absence Seizure, and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure.

Jillian L. Rosengard, MD, is an attending physician and Associate Professor of Neurology at Montefiore Einstein. She specializes in the diagnosis and management of seizures and epilepsy. She has a particular interest in treating patients with intractable epilepsy and caring for women with epilepsy during their pregnancies, as well as medical education. Dr. Rosengard is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 5 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Memory Loss, and Epilepsy.

Judah Burns, MD, is Director of the Diagnostic Residency Program at Montefiore, and is an Associate Professor of Radiology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Burns specializes in neuroradiology, with a focus on advanced imaging of CNS tumors, inflammatory and ischemic diseases. Dr. Burns is deeply involved in fostering systems-based improvement, specifically peer review and integrating radiology with other clinical systems. Dr. Burns received his bachelor?s degree in Biology at Yeshiva University in New York in 1999. In 2003, he received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After graduating, he completed an internship in internal medicine at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 2004. Following this, Dr. Burns completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology in 2008 and a fellowship in Neuroradiology at Montefiore in 2010. Dr. Burns focuses his research on three major areas: the utilization and appropriateness of neuroimaging, the assessment of educational feedback initiatives in medical students and residents, and system-level research gauging the efficacy of workflow processes in the delivery of advanced-level medical care. He chairs the brain imaging panel on Imaging Appropriateness for the American College of Radiology, is the Chair of the Montefiore Peer Review Board, and is an active participant in the Montefiore Quality Council. Dr. Burns is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 14 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Posterior Fossa Tumor, Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), and Stroke.

Victor Ferastraoaru is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Ferastraoaru is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 5 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Epilepsy, and Memory Loss.

I am a board certified Neurologist and Psychiatrist with a clinical specialization in treating headache and neck and facial pain. I have over 15 years experience including work at the world-renowned Montefiore Headache Unit. I am compentent in both the use of medications, nutriceuticals, and Botox and nerve blocks. Dr. Berliner is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 1 other condition, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Migraine, Major Depression, Tension Headache, and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

Dr. Srinivasan completed her undergraduate studies at M.S. University of Baroda, India, receiving the Susmita Patel Memorial Gold Medal, and went on to complete a 3 year residency in Internal Medicine at the same institution. She then moved to the US, completed her neurology residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Following her residency, she completed a Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Shen then joined the faculty at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology in 2011. She is the director of the Vanderbilt Epilepsy Clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and is very closely involved in epilepsy fellow education and training. Her areas of focus include treatment of refractory epilepsy including epilepsy surgery and neuromodulation. Dr. Srinivasan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 14 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Memory Loss, Partial Seizure, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Srinivasan is board certified in Neurology and Epilepsy. Dr. Srinivasan is currently accepting new patients.

Steven Wolf is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Wolf is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 14 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), Epilepsy, Seizures, Thrombectomy, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Daniel Luciano is a Neurologist practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Luciano is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 15 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Partial Seizure, Memory Loss, and Partial Familial Epilepsy.

Ewa Koziorynska is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Koziorynska is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 11 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Memory Loss, Insomnia, Seizures, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Maria Muxfeldt is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Muxfeldt is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 1 other condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Epilepsy, Seizures, Memory Loss, and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure.

Neuromuscular medicine/ Electrodiagnostic testing. Dr. Gulati is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 10 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Migraine, Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy, Unverricht-Lundborg Syndrome, and Lafora Disease.

Mahmood Kazmi is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Kazmi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 18 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Major Depression, Dementia, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and Schizophrenia.

Li Kan is a Pediatrics specialist and a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Flushing, New York. Dr. Kan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 17 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Transient Tic Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tolosa Hunt Syndrome, and Absence Seizure.

Cigdem Akman is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Akman is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 8 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Epilepsy, Status Epilepticus, and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure.

Dr. McBrian is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Child Neurology.Dr. McBrian grew up in New Jersey where she graduated with honors from Rutgers College, in New Brunswick. Subsequently she attended medical school at Vagelos 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. Dr. Mcbrian is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 3 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure. Dr. Mcbrian is board certified in Neurology With Special Qualification In Child Neurology and Child Neurology. Dr. Mcbrian is currently accepting new patients.

"Tristan T. Sands, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons (Columbia VP&S) Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics. He is a pediatric neurologist who treats children and babies suffering from epilepsy and a physician scientist with expertise in genetic causes of epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disease. Dr. Sands completed his MD-PhD at Columbia VP&S through a Medical Scientist Training Program with thesis work in lab of Dr. Arnold Kriegstein. During child neurology residency at UCSF, Dr. Sands trained in electroclinical phenotyping of the epilepsies under Dr. M. Roberta Cilio. After finishing his clinical training at Columbia VP&S in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology with Dr. Jim Riviello, Dr. Sands joined Columbia VP&S as faculty in 2017, first training in neurogenetics at the Institute for Genomic Medicine, and then returning to the bench to study genetic epilepsy using mouse models under the mentorship of Dr. Wayne Frankel. Dr. Sands has worked closely with families to treat hundreds of children with epilepsy. He is the author of chapters on pediatric epilepsy and genetic epilepsy in major textbooks in the field of neurology, including Merritt’s Neurology and Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Sands has served as an expert on ClinGen’s epilepsy gene curation panel since 2017. In 2023, Dr. Sands was named Fellow of the American Epilepsy Society in recognition of professional accomplishment and dedication in the field of epilepsy. Dr. Sands is a 2024 Louis V. Gerstner Scholar. His research contributions include demonstration of the exquisite efficacy of carbamazepine for neonatal epilepsy caused by inherited loss-of-function variants in KCNQ2 and KCNQ3, work that led to changes to the International League against Epilepsy guidelines and recommendations on the treatment of seizures in newborn babies. Dr. Sands reported the electroclinical characterization of a new gain-of-function phenotype caused by de novo variants in KCNQ3. Dr. Sands reported variants in NBEA as a cause epilepsy and neurodevelopment, and he characterized the largest cohort of patients with epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disability caused by pathogenic variants in CSNK2B. The Sands ""END (Epilepsy & Neurodevelopmental Disease) Laboratory,"" established in 2022 in the Center for Translational Research in Neurodevelopmental Disease (CTRND), uses mouse and human cellular models to identify convergent disease mechanisms and novel therapeutic strategies for epilepsy and encephalopathy caused by rare genetic mutations. These research efforts are supported by federal grants from both NIH and private agencies.". Dr. Sands is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 10 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Epilepsy in Children, Epilepsy, Seizures, and Status Epilepticus. Dr. Sands is board certified in Neurology With Special Qualification In Child Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy. Dr. Sands is currently accepting new patients.

Jennifer Bain, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Bain completed both an MD and PhD, as well as general pediatrics residency at Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School in New Jersey. She then trained in Child Neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City and is a board-certified neurologist with special certification in Child Neurology seeing both inpatient and outpatient pediatric neurology patients. Her clinic focuses on diagnosis and management of autism, cerebral palsy and neurodevelopmental disorders in addition to genetic disorders associated with such conditions.Her early research career focused on spinal cord and brain development after injuries such as spinal cord injury and perinatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. During her residency training, her clinical research focused on studying autonomic dysfunction in children with autism spectrum disorders and neurological complications during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. She currently works as a physician scientist at Columbia University specializing in general pediatric neurology with expertise in development, behavioral neurology, autism and cerebral palsy. Her clinical research has focused on studying the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders including autism and cerebral palsy. The genes she has worked closely on include HNRNPH2 and related disorders, GRIN disorders, KIF1A. She is interested in understanding clinically meaningful measures in families affected by neurodevelopmental disorders and measuring longitudinal trajectories in such disorders. She has been working closely with several patient advocacy groups, researchers, and Simons Searchlight to continuously move forward in the understanding of the developing and aging brain. Dr. Bain is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 4 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses HNRNPH2-Related Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy, and Cerebral Palsy. Dr. Bain is board certified in Neurology With Special Qualification In Child Neurology. Dr. Bain is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Hyunmi Choi is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and a board-certified epilepsy specialist with over 25 years of experience. She provides expert care in adult epilepsy and serves as an oversight neurologist for the intraoperative neuromonitoring service at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.Dr. Choi graduated Cum Laude from the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse. She completed both her neurology residency and fellowship in epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology at Columbia University Medical Center. She later earned a Master's in Biostatistics to support her research on patient-centered outcomes in epilepsy.Her NIH-funded research focuses on how vascular risk factors contribute to the link between late-onset epilepsy and subsequent stroke or dementia. She has been recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor annually since 2015. Dr. Choi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is also highly rated in 9 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Epilepsy, Seizures, Memory Loss, Partial Familial Epilepsy, and Carotid Artery Surgery. Dr. Choi is board certified in Neurology and Epilepsy. Dr. Choi is currently accepting new patients.

Carl Bazil completed his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a combined MD/PhD program at Emory University, with a doctorate in pharmacology. He was a resident and chief resident in Neurology at New York University, and completed his fellowship in Epilepsy/EEG at the Neurological Institute of New York.He was then Assistant Professor of Neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Since 1996, he has been an attending neurologist at Columbia University Division of Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders, and was Director of the division from 2008-2021.  He has done extensive research in the relationship between epilepsy and sleep and in development of antiseizure drugs, and continues to evaluate patients with epilepsy and sleep disorders. Dr. Bazil is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 8 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Seizures, Memory Loss, Epilepsy, and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure. Dr. Bazil is board certified in Neurology, Sleep Medicine, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy.

Dr. Roh is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is an Attending Neurointensivist Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and joined as faculty in 2016. Prior to joining as faculty, Dr. Roh received his undergraduate degree from The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and his medical degree from Rush Medical College. He completed Neurology Residency at The University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital followed by Neurocritical Care fellowship training at NewYork-Presbyterian: Columbia and Cornell Medical Centers. Dr. Roh is board certified in Neurology and Neurocritical Care and he specializes in the treatment of neurological emergencies and critical illness in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit.He is a clinical investigator whose research characterizes coagulopathy in critically ill patients, specifically in those who encounter brain bleeding.  Dr. Roh leads a translational research team whose focus is to develop novel laboratory diagnostic strategies and hemorrhage control therapy approaches to improve clinical outcomes in patients who encounter life threatening bleeding. His work is currently supported by the NIH (NINDS, NHLBI), the Department of Defense, and the National Blood Foundation. He currently serves as a senior advisory board member of the American Heart Association Hemorrhagic Stroke Science Committee. Dr. Roh is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. He is also highly rated in 5 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Stroke, Apoplexy, Noma, and Thrombectomy. Dr. Roh is board certified in Neurology.