Michael L. Swerdlow

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Michael

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Swerdlow

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<p>Dr. Michael Swerdlow graduated from The University Of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.&nbsp; He did a medical residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York.&nbsp; He then completed the neurology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx.&nbsp;&nbsp; He then did a fellowship Neuromuscular diseases at the N.I.H. in Bethesda.&nbsp; He joined the faculty at Montefiore Hospital and Albert Einstein College.&nbsp; He presently is a&nbsp; Professor of Clinical Neurology.&nbsp;&nbsp; He has a large faculty practice with Dr. David Kaufman as "K and S."&nbsp;&nbsp; He teaches residents and supervises the Neurology Clinic and is involved in CME teaching.&nbsp; Special areas of interest include muscle disorders, Myasthenia Gravis, Multiple Sclerosis and disorders of the spine.</p>

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William R. Sugrue

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William

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Sugrue

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Elayna O. Rubens

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Elayna

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Rubens

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<p>Elayna Rubens, MD, is Co-Director, Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring Service at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Rubens&rsquo;s primary clinical focus is performing intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring to enhance the safety of surgeries that may affect the brain, spinal cord or peripheral nerves.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in biology and neurobiology from Cornell University in 1998, Dr. Rubens earned her Doctor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2003. Dr. Rubens completed her neurology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2007, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. She went on to complete a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2009.</p><p>Dr. Rubens&rsquo;s research focuses on enhancing neurophysiologic monitoring techniques to improve the safety of surgeries involving the nervous system. Her research also involves using clinical evoked potential testing and electroencephalography to improve neurologic patient care, particularly in the critical care setting. She has shared her work through numerous peer-reviewed publications and invited presentations.</p><p>Dr. Rubens is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a Fellow of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and member of the American Epilepsy Society and the American Academy of Neurology.</p>

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Jillian L. Rosengard

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Jillian

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">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.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard in 2008, Dr. Rosengard earned her Doctor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2012. She completed an internship in internal medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center in 2013 before completing her residency in neurology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 2016, where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Rosengard then completed a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at Einstein in 2017.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">Dr. Rosengard's research focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on patients with epilepsy as well as seizure prediction. She also participates in drug trials for new anti-seizure medications through Montefiore&rsquo;s Clinical Research Center. She has been Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on several research projects, and her work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. Dr. Rosengard has given national presentations and has been a reviewer for scientific journals including <em>Neurology, Epilepsy &amp; Behavior </em>and the<em> Journal of the Neurological Sciences.</em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px;">Dr. Rosengard is board certified in Neurology and Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. In 2023, Dr. Rosengard was elected into the Leo M. Davidoff Society for outstanding achievement in the teaching of medical students, and she has been named a New York Super Doctors Rising Star for several years.</p>

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Dr. Rosengard specializes in the diagnosis and management of seizures and epilepsy. She has a particular interest in treating women with epilepsy during their pregnancies as well as medical education.<br />

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Dr. Rosengard's research focuses on the Covid-19 pandemic's inpatient on patients with epilepsy as well as seizure prediction. She also participates in drug trials for new anti-seizure medications through Montefiore Clinical Research Center.<br /><quillbot-extension-portal></quillbot-extension-portal>

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Leon M. Protass

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Leon

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Protass

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Jelena M. Pavlovic

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Jelena

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Pavlovic

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<p>Jelena Pavlovic, MD, PhD &nbsp;is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Pavlovic earned her B.S. from Ramapo College of New Jersey where she double majored in Biology and Chemistry while on full academic scholarship.&nbsp; She completed her MD and PhD in Molecular Medicine at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.&nbsp; She was an intern in internal medicine at St. Vincent&rsquo;s Hospital in New York City and a neurology resident at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, where she was also a Chief Resident. She subsequently continued her training as a fellow in Headache Medicine and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center.</p>
<p>Dr. Pavlovic is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Headache Society (AHS), and the International Headache Society (IHS). &nbsp;In addition to prior awards, she received the AHS&rsquo;s "Frontiers in Headache Research" scholarship in 2012.</p>
<p>Dr. Pavlovic&rsquo;s research interests broadly focus on migraine biophenotypes with a particular interest in processes that lead to the progression from episodic to chronic migraine.&nbsp;</p>

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Puja Patel

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Puja

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<p>Puja Patel, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Associate Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Patel's clinical focus is pediatric epilepsy, although she also sees patients with general pediatric neurological issues, including headaches, movement disorders, sleep concerns and developmental delay.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in biology from Barnard College in 2005, Dr. Patel earned her Doctor of Medicine at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in 2009. She completed her internship and residency in pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in 2011. Following this, Dr. Patel came to Montefiore Einstein to continue her medical training, completing her pediatric neurology residency in 2014, a clinical neurophysiology fellowship in 2015 and a behavioral neurosciences fellowship in 2016.</p><p>Dr. Patel&rsquo;s research focuses on clinical seizure prediction in the pediatric population. She has been co-investigator in several clinical drug trials investigating new anti-seizure medications. Her work has been shared through invited presentations and peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and abstracts. She is a reviewer for scientific journals, including <em>Epilepsy Research, the Journal of Neurological Sciences and Pediatric Neurology</em>, among others.</p><p>Dr. Patel is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology with special competence in Child Neurology. She is a member of the Child Neurology Society and the American Epilepsy Society.</p>

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Raminder K. Parihar

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Dr. Parihar is focused on expanding the DBS to improve the quality of life of patients with tremors, Parkinson's disease, and dystonia.

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Dr. Parihar is interested in studying gait disorders and working to find advanced therapies to improve them.&nbsp;

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<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df15-2ae7-5b01-dfa6f02928ba">1. Parihar, R; Mahoney, JR; Verghese, J. Relationship of Gait and Cognition in the Elderly. Curr Transl Geriatr Exp Gerontol Rep. 2013 Sep 1;2(3)</span></p>
<p>2. Bakshi K,&nbsp;Parihar R, Goswami SK, Walsh M, Friedman E, Wang HY. Prenatal cocaine exposure uncouples mGluR1 from Homer1 and Gq proteins. PLoS One. 2014 Mar 13;9(3):e91671. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091671. eCollection 2014</p>
<p>3.&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df16-5152-5f73-3dd4cf8c18ee">Parihar R, Alterman R, Papavassiliou E, Tarsy D, Shih LC. Comparison of VIM and STN DBS for Parkinsonian Resting and Postural/Action Tremor. Tremor Other Hyperkinetic Mov. 2015 July 6;5: 321</span></p>
<p>4.&nbsp;<span id="docs-internal-guid-7b0a3849-df16-989c-b0c2-e768f5de3e9a">Tarsy, Daniel, and Raminder K. Parihar. Medication-Induced Movement Disorders. Cambridge, 2015. Print.</span></p>

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<p>Raminder Parihar, MD, is Director, Neuromodulation at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Parihar evaluates and treats patients with different movement disorders. She is also largely involved in evaluating patients for candidacy for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for the treatment of different movement disorders and initiating and following up stimulation programming.</p><p>After obtaining her Bachelor of Science in biomedical sciences from the City College of New York in 2007, Dr. Parihar completed her Doctor of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in 2009. She then came to Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she completed an internship in medicine in 2010 and her residency in adult neurology in 2013, where she was Chief Resident in her final year. Dr. Parihar completed a fellowship in movement disorders at Harvard/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2014.</p><p>Dr. Parihar&rsquo;s research focuses on gait disorders and how they can predict cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease. She also studies the impact of deep brain stimulation in improving the quality of life in patients with movement disorders. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed book chapters and publications, and she has shared her work through lectures and platform and abstract presentations.</p><p>Dr. Parihar is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Movement Disorders Society and the American Medical Association (AMA). In 2023, Dr. Parihar was a recipient of the Marquis Who's Who in America Award.</p>

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Oleg Otlivanchik

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<p>Oleg Otlivanchik, MD, PhD, is Co-Director, Comprehensive Stroke Center at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Neurology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Otlivanchik's clinical focus is on vascular disorders of the brain.</p><p>After obtaining his Bachelor of Science in materials science and engineering from Columbia University in 2008, Dr. Otlivanchik earned his Doctor of Philosophy in neuroscience at Rutgers University in 2014, followed by his Doctor of Medicine at the same institution in 2016. He then came to Montefiore Einstein to continue his medical training, completing his internal medicine internship in 2017, his residency in neurology in 2020 where he was Chief Resident in his final year, and a fellowship in vascular neurology in 2021.</p><p>Dr. Otlivanchik's research interests include quality improvement, stroke education, diagnostic error, atherosclerotic disease, stroke prevention and neurorehabilitation. He has been the site primary investigator and research assistant on several research projects, and his work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, review articles and abstracts.</p><p>Dr. Otlivanchik is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of the American Academy of Neurology.</p>

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Fabreena E. Napier

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Fabreena

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<p>Interest is in clinical neurology and electromygraphy.</p>

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