The 20 Best Rigid Spine Syndrome Doctors Near Me in New York, NY
Find the Top Rigid Spine Syndrome Experts and Specialists
CUIMC/Harkness Pavilion
Dr. Jayaraman graduated magna cum laude with an undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard College in 2008. She then joined the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program, where she received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2017. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2019. Her training in child neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. After completing child neurology residency in 2022, she stayed at Boston Children’s Hospital as a clinical and research neurology fellow, conducting research in the lab of Dr. Alan Beggs on the genetics of inherited muscle disorders, while also seeing patients with neuromuscular disorders in clinic and working as a spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) clinical trial sub-investigator with Dr. Basil T. Darras at Boston Children’s Hospital. Finally, she completed a clinical fellowship in neuromuscular medicine and electromyography (EMG) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2024. She is a diplomate of the ABPN in Child Neurology.Dr. Jayaraman’s clinical expertise and practice focuses on neuromuscular disorders of infancy, childhood and adolescence, including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, myasthenia gravis, inherited and acquired myopathies and neuropathies, as well as general pediatric neurology. Dr. Jayaraman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. She is also highly rated in 6 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Rigid Spine Syndrome, Schizencephaly, Microcephaly, and Achalasia Microcephaly Syndrome. Dr. Jayaraman is currently accepting new patients.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Yaacov Anziska is a Neurologist practicing medicine in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Anziska is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. He is also highly rated in 36 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Myasthenia Gravis, Neuromyelitis Optica, Necrotizing Myopathy (NM), and HTLV-1 Associated Myelopathy.
CUIMC/Harkness Pavilion
Akin Beckley, MD, MBA is an Assistant Professor and Associate Residency Program Director at Columbia University Medical Center’s Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Beckley also serves as the Medical Director of the Inpatient Unit at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He specializes in seeing patients with neurological problems, cancer, amputations, and cardiopulmonary issues.Dr. Beckley received his undergraduate education at the University of Western Ontario and his MBA and MD from the University of Connecticut. He completed his internship and residency in Surgery at the Hospital of St. Raphael before moving on to complete his residency in Rehabilitation Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.Dr. Beckley’s interests lie in neurological and cancer rehabilitation. His focus, when treating patients, is to help them get back to their level of function prior to them becoming ill using an interdisciplinary and collaborative method. He employs the help of other departments such as PT and OT to provide the best care necessary for the patient. He also emphasizes the importance of education among his patients and medical students to assure effective continued care. Dr. Beckley is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. He is also highly rated in 6 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Paraplegia, Hemiplegia, Foot Drop, Syringomyelia, and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Dr. Beckley is board certified in Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation. Dr. Beckley is currently accepting new patients.
CUIMC/Neurological Institute Of New York
Michio Hirano is a Neurologist practicing medicine in New York, New York. Dr. Hirano is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. He is also highly rated in 33 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalopathy Disease, MELAS Syndrome, Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia, and X-Linked Dominant Scapuloperoneal Myopathy. Dr. Hirano is currently accepting new patients.
Montefiore Greene Medical Arts Pavilion
"Dr. Michael Swerdlow graduated from The University Of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He did a medical residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He then completed the neurology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx. He then did a fellowship Neuromuscular diseases at the N.I.H. in Bethesda. He joined the faculty at Montefiore Hospital and Albert Einstein College. He presently is a Professor of Clinical Neurology. He has a large faculty practice with Dr. David Kaufman as ""K and S."" He teaches residents and supervises the Neurology Clinic and is involved in CME teaching. Special areas of interest include muscle disorders, Myasthenia Gravis, Multiple Sclerosis and disorders of the spine.". Dr. Swerdlow is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. He is also highly rated in 26 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Myasthenia Gravis, Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis (RMS), and Neuromyelitis Optica.
The Children's Hospital At Montefiore
Leslie Delfiner is a Pediatric Neurologist practicing medicine in Bronx, New York. Dr. Delfiner is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. She is also highly rated in 2 other conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Myasthenia Gravis, Hypotonia, and Thymectomy.
Valley West Medical
Louis Napolitano is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Wood Ridge, New Jersey. Dr. Napolitano is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Rigid Spine Syndrome. He is also highly rated in 11 other conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy, Collagen VI-Related Myopathy, Nemaline Myopathy, Endoscopy, and Ureteroscopy.
Last Updated: 04/28/2026

