Dr. Bernard Maria
Overview
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.
His top areas of expertise are Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), Tourette Syndrome, CLN5 Disease, and CLN4 Disease.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 17 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
11 Overlook Road, Suite 230, Summit, NJ 07901
194 Route 31, Flemington, NJ 08822
55 Madison Avenue, Floor 2, Morristown, NJ 07960
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Maria has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
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Areas of Expertise
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- Autism Spectrum DisorderDr. Maria isExperienced. Learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Batten DiseaseDr. Maria isExperienced. Learn about Batten Disease.
- CLN1 DiseaseDr. Maria isExperienced. Learn about CLN1 Disease.
- CLN2 DiseaseDr. Maria isExperienced. Learn about CLN2 Disease.
- CLN3 DiseaseDr. Maria isExperienced. Learn about CLN3 Disease.
- CLN4 DiseaseDr. Maria isExperienced. Learn about CLN4 Disease.