Steven B. Schwartzberg, M.D., is a fellowship-trained, board-certified pediatric neurologist at Orlin & Cohen, distinguished for his compassionate care and expertise. With over three decades of experience, Dr. Schwartzberg is known for his exceptional diagnostic and treatment skills, helping to improve the lives of countless children with neurological disorders.Dr. Schwartzberg earned his medical degree with honors and has been continuously learning and specializing in his field ever since. He completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the Albert Einstein Hospital Montefiore Medical Center and then pursued subspecialty training in pediatric neurology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Schwartzberg has contributed extensively to his field through his research, which includes internationally recognized publications on diverse facets of pediatric medicine.In addition to his clinical practice and academic pursuits, Dr. Schwartzberg is dedicated to shaping the future of pediatric neurology through education and mentorship. He serves as an assistant professor of clinical neurology at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, where he plays a crucial role in guiding and inspiring the next generation of pediatric neurologists. Dr. Schwartzberg is highly rated in 12 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Focal or Multifocal Malformations in Neuronal Migration, Cortical Dysplasia, Periventricular Heterotopia, and Epilepsy.

Aliza Alter is a Neurologist and a Pediatric Neurologist in Livingston, New Jersey. Dr. Alter is highly rated in 24 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Seizures, Landau-Kleffner Syndrome, Memory Loss, and Epilepsy. Dr. Alter is currently accepting new patients.

Hillary Raynes is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Raynes is highly rated in 118 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Autism Spectrum Disorder, Krabbe Disease, Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), and Seizures.

Dr. Chiriboga is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at CUIMC and former Interim Director of the Division of Child Neurology, Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She is also former Chief of Pediatric Neurology at Columbia University's affiliate hospital, Harlem Hospital Center.Dr. Chiriboga was born in Peru and educated in Argentina, where she graduated with Honors from the Faculty of Medicine at the National University of Buenos Aires in 1982. Dr. Chiriboga completed training in pediatrics at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in 1985. After completing her training in child neurology in 1988 at the Neurological Institute and Babies Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Dr. Chiriboga joined the Division of Child Neurology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Subsequently, she completed a Neuroepidemiology fellowship at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and received a Master in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Chiriboga serves/has served on committees of the NIH, CNS, and ABPN. She is a diplomate of the ABPN in Child Neurology.Dr. Chiriboga's current research focuses on Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) clinical trials. Past areas of research, including NIH funding, has focused on congenital infections and neurodevelopmental disorders, including cerebral palsy and effects of perinatal exposures. Her clinical practice focuses on neuromuscular disorders as well as developmental, neurobehavioral neurology, and migraine, and on the treatment of spasticity. Dr. Chiriboga is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 2, and Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3.

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 highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are HNRNPH2-Related Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy, and Cerebral Palsy.

Yi Xie is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Xie is highly rated in 32 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Athetosis, Infantile Axonal Neuropathy, Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis, Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type 2, and Deep Brain Stimulation.

Heather Lau is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Lau is highly rated in 11 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Gaucher Disease, Sandhoff Disease, Tay-Sachs Disease, and Gaucher Disease Type 3.

Kaleb Yohay is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Yohay is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Neurofibromatosis, Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), RASopathies, and CLN5 Disease.

Caroline Hayes is a Pediatric Neurologist in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Hayes is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Neurofibromatosis, Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), Developmental Dysphasia Familial, and Developmental Expressive Language Disorder.

Anusha Yeshokumar is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Yeshokumar is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, Encephalitis, Stiff Person Syndrome, and Seizures.

Jayoung Pak is a Pediatric Neurologist in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Pak is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Seizures, Memory Loss, West Syndrome, and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS).

Vijay Ramaswamy is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Ramaswamy is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Embryonal Tumor with Multilayered Rosettes, Gliomatosis Cerebri, Neurofibromatosis, and Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma (pLGG).

Lisa Ford is a Pediatric Neurologist in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Ford is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Chronic Polyradiculoneuritis, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, Developmental Dysphasia Familial, and Developmental Expressive Language Disorder.

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.

"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 highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Epilepsy in Children, Epilepsy, Seizures, and Status Epilepticus.

Pediatric Neurologist and Clinical NeurophysiologistDirector of Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Lenox Hill Hospital Northwell HealthDirector of International Pediatric Neurology Program Northwell HealthClinical Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Bluvstein is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Seizures, Myoclonic Epilepsy, West Syndrome, and Epilepsy.

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 highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Rigid Spine Syndrome, Schizencephaly, Periventricular Heterotopia, and Microcephaly.

Dr. Emmanuele is a pediatric neurology specialist with expertise in neuromuscular disorders. Her areas of interest include mitochondrial disorders and metabolic myopathies. She initially trained at the “Istituto Giannina Gaslini” in Genoa, Italy, a tertiary pediatric hospital where she cared for children with neuromuscular disorders. In 2009, Dr. Emmanuele moved to New York City to join the H. Houston Merritt Neuromuscular Research Center at Columbia University as a research scientist. She then completed a clinical fellowship in mitochondrial disorders through the North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC). In 2024, she completed her residency in pediatric neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Emmanuele is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are X-Linked Dominant Scapuloperoneal Myopathy, MELAS Syndrome, Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy, and Leigh Syndrome.

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 highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Seizures, Epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure.

Gurcharanjeet Kaur, MD is an assistant professor of neurology at CUIMC, in the Division of Child Neurology. Dr. Kaur is a graduate of Lady Hardinge Medical College in New Delhi, India. She completed residency in both pediatric neurology and neuro-oncology at Stony Brook University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, respectively. Dr. Kaur is a board-certified child neurologist and pediatric neuro-oncologist, with particular expertise in neurofibromatosis (NF) and NF-related tumors, cancer related neurotoxicity, and tumor targeted therapy for low grade gliomas. Dr. Kaur is dedicated to helping children while minimizing the toxicities and residual deficits by providing the highest quality of care and access to recent advances in the field. Dr. Kaur remains committed to clinical and pre-clinical research. She has been involved in the clinical trials as a site principal investigator and co-investigator. She mentors’ residents, fellows, and medical students interested in the field of child neurology and neuro-oncology. Dr. Kaur is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), Neurofibromatosis, Seizures, and Zika Virus Disease.

Janet Elgallab is a Pediatric Neurologist in Newark, New Jersey. Her top areas of expertise are Autism Spectrum Disorder, Spasmus Nutans, Stereotypic Movement Disorder, and Seizures.

Anjum Hashim is a Pediatric Neurologist in Newark, New Jersey. Her top areas of expertise are Seizures, Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Memory Loss.

Matthew Mccarthy is a Sports Medicine specialist and a Pediatric Neurologist in Livingston, New Jersey. His top areas of expertise are Concussion, Neuralgia, May Thurner Syndrome, and Opisthotonos. Dr. Mccarthy is currently accepting new patients.

Cigdem Akman is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Akman is highly rated in 8 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Seizures, Epilepsy, Status Epilepticus, and Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure.

Wendy Vargas is a Pediatric Neurologist in New York, New York. Dr. Vargas is highly rated in 6 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Encephalitis, Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis, and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).