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Affiliated Provider
Affiliated providers provide medical care at an NYU Langone location or a private practice, and are not employed by NYU Langone Health.

Michael H. Pourfar, MD

Affiliated Provider
Affiliated providers provide medical care at an NYU Langone location or a private practice, and are not employed by NYU Langone Health.
  • Specialties: Neurosurgery, Neurology
  • Languages: English, French
  • Phone: 212-263-2607
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Conditions and Treatments

For Adults
Conditions
  • wry neck
  • dystonia
  • Parkinson's disease
  • essential tremor
  • spasmodic torticollis
  • spasticity
  • Tourette syndrome
  • facial pain
  • trigeminal neuralgia
  • ataxia
  • movement disorder
Treatments
  • stereotactic brain surgery
  • neuromodulation
  • radiosurgery
  • deep brain stimulation
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Learn more about conditions we treat at NYU Langone:
Parkinson’s Disease, Movement Disorders in Adults, Tourette Disorder, Atypical Facial Pain in Adults, Trigeminal Neuralgia in Adults

Positions
Board Certifications
  • American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology - Neurology, 2004
Education and Training
  • Fellowship, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Movement Disorder, 2005
  • Residency, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Neurology, 2003
  • MD from Hahnemann University, 1999

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This provider accepts the following insurance plans.

  • ###Aetna HMO
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna OA Managed Choice POS
  • Aetna Open Choice PPO
  • Amidacare
  • Centerlight
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield EPO
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthy NY
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Indemnity
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield MediBlue
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield POS
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Pathways, Enhanced
  • Fidelis Child Health
  • Fidelis Family Health
  • Fidelis Medicaid
  • GHI
  • GHI HMO
  • HIP Child Health
  • HIP Family Health
  • HealthFirst
  • NYS Health Insurance Plan - The Empire Plan
  • Oxford Freedom
  • Railroad Medicare
  • Tricare
  • UnitedHealthcare Community & State Plan
  • UnitedHealthcare EPO
  • UnitedHealthcare HMO
  • UnitedHealthcare Medicare
  • UnitedHealthcare POS
  • UnitedHealthcare PPO
  • UnitedHealthcare Top Tier
  • Visiting Nurse Service (VNS) Medicare
View All Accepted Plans This list of insurances changes regularly, and insurance plans listed may not be accepted at all office locations for this provider. Before your appointment, please confirm with your insurance company that this provider accepts your insurance.

Locations and Appointments

NYU Neurosurgery Associates

530 1st Avenue, Suite 8S
New York, NY 10016

Phone

212-263-2607

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NYU Great Neck Medical

488 Great Neck Road, Suite 300
Great Neck, NY 11021

Phone

212-263-2607

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Academic office

530 1st Avenue, Suite 8S

New York, NY 10016

Phone

212-263-2607

  • Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Speech Production during Delayed Auditory Feedback in Subthalamic Nucleus: A Prospective Study in Parkinson s Subjects Undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

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