About Me
Conditions and Treatments
Conditions
- essential tremor
- spasmodic torticollis
- Tourette syndrome
- facial pain
- spasticity
- ataxia
- movement disorder
- trigeminal neuralgia
- dystonia
- Parkinson's disease
- wry neck
Treatments
- deep brain stimulation
- stereotactic brain surgery
- neuromodulation
- radiosurgery
Learn more about conditions we treat at NYU Langone:
Movement Disorders in Adults, Tourette Disorder, Atypical Facial Pain in Adults, Trigeminal Neuralgia in Adults, Parkinson’s DiseaseCredentials
Positions
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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
Locations and Appointments
NYU Neurosurgery Associates
530 1st Avenue, Suite 8S
New York, NY 10016
NYU Great Neck Medical
488 Great Neck Road, Suite 300
Great Neck, NY 11021
Research Academic Contact
Academic office
530 1st Avenue, Suite 8S
New York, NY 10016
Phone
212-263-2607
Clinical Trials and Research Studies
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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
Publications
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Johnson, Kara A; Duffley, Gordon; Anderson, Daria Nesterovich; Ostrem, Jill L; Welter, Marie-Laure; Baldermann, Juan Carlos; Kuhn, Jens; Huys, Daniel; Visser-Vandewalle, Veerle; Foltynie, Thomas; Zrinzo, Ludvic; Hariz, Marwan; Leentjens, Albert F G; Mogilner, Alon Y; Pourfar, Michael H; Almeida, Leonardo; Gunduz, Aysegul; Foote, Kelly D; Okun, Michael S; Butson, Christopher R
Brain. 2020 Aug 01; 143(8):2607-2623
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Vitek, Jerrold L; Jain, Roshini; Chen, Lilly; Tröster, Alexander I; Schrock, Lauren E; House, Paul A; Giroux, Monique L; Hebb, Adam O; Farris, Sierra M; Whiting, Donald M; Leichliter, Timothy A; Ostrem, Jill L; San Luciano, Marta; Galifianakis, Nicholas; Verhagen Metman, Leo; Sani, Sepehr; Karl, Jessica A; Siddiqui, Mustafa S; Tatter, Stephen B; Ul Haq, Ihtsham; Machado, Andre G; Gostkowski, Michal; Tagliati, Michele; Mamelak, Adam N; Okun, Michael S; Foote, Kelly D; Moguel-Cobos, Guillermo; Ponce, Francisco A; Pahwa, Rajesh; Nazzaro, Jules M; Buetefisch, Cathrin M; Gross, Robert E; Luca, Corneliu C; Jagid, Jonathan R; Revuelta, Gonzalo J; Takacs, Istvan; Pourfar, Michael H; Mogilner, Alon Y; Duker, Andrew P; Mandybur, George T; Rosenow, Joshua M; Cooper, Scott E; Park, Michael C; Khandhar, Suketu M; Sedrak, Mark; Phibbs, Fenna T; Pilitsis, Julie G; Uitti, Ryan J; Starr, Philip A
Lancet. Neurology. 2020 Jun ; 19(6):491-501
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Drummond, Patrick S; Pourfar, Michael H; Hill, Travis C; Mogilner, Alon Y; Kondziolka, Douglas S
Stereotactic & functional neurosurgery. 2020 Feb 26; 1-8
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