3rd Annual Brooklyn Neurology Symposium
Expanding Horizons in Clinical Neurology: Advances and Emerging Diagnoses and Subspecialties
Maimonides Neurosciences Institute, Brooklyn Neuroscience Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University’s Department of Neurology, and One Brooklyn Health’s Department of Neurology are proud to present the Annual Brooklyn Neurology Symposium.
This free, virtual and in-person symposium features new research and clinical paradigms related to the diagnosis and management of complex neurologic conditions and science.
Expanding Horizons in Clinical Neurology: Advances and Emerging Diagnoses and Subspecialties
Date: Friday, November 13, 2026
Time: 8:00 am–3:15 pm
Location:
Maimonides Medical Center
Schreiber Auditorium, Administration Building, 2nd Floor
4802 10th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219
Virtual symposium: Via Webex
CME credit: This activity has been approved for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Registration: Free, but required to attend
Symposium topics
This year we have a number of sessions that will be focusing on emerging topics that have become mainstream in neurology. This includes sessions on:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Lifestyle neurology
- Migraine in pregnancy
- Functional neurological disorder (FND)
- Anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease (anti-MOG, MOGAD)
- Acute optic neuritis
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)
- The dizziness exam (in-person demonstration and practice)
Learning objectives
Our aim is to educate clinicians in the community and our institution, as well as provide an opportunity to get hands on practice on challenging parts of the neurologic exam.
Who should attend
This annual conference is designed with the following audiences in mind:
- Physicians, including neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionalists, radiologists, intensivists, hospitalists, cardiologists, vascular specialists, and emergency and critical care specialists, as well as medicine, primary care, and other physicians
- Healthcare professionals, including first responders/EMTs, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, rehabilitation specialists, and others
- Interested members of the public
2026 program details
Our 2026 program will be updated as all details are finalized.
8:00–8:15 am: Welcome remarks

Daniel Rosenbaum, MD
Distinguished Service Professor & Chair of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Regional Chair of Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center
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Prior to his appointments at SUNY Downstate Health Science University and Maimonides Medical Center, Dr. Daniel M. Rosenbaum was Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he served as Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology, and Associate Professor of Neuroscience. He also has held the positions of Site Director of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Director of the Stern Stroke Center at Montefiore Medical Center. He earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine; completed his internship at Brookdale Medical Center; his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he was Chief Resident in the Department of Neurology; and a fellowship in cerebrovascular disease at University of Texas Medical School in Houston. Recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, he has been honored with the Clinical Investigator Developmental Award by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and has published more than 80 articles in all the major peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, Society for Neuroscience, Stroke Council of the American Stroke Association, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism.

Nuri Jacoby, MD, FAAN
Vice-Chair of Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center Co-Clerkship Director & Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
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Nuri Jacoby is the Vice Chair of Neurology at Maimonides Medical Center and co-clerkship director at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology. He graduated from medical school at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University after which he completed a neurology residency and electrophysiology/EMG fellowship at Weill Cornell. He partnered with Dr. Yaacov Anziska to establish a satellite Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) clinic at Maimonides Medical Center. Dr. Jacoby has won multiple teaching awards, including the SUNY Downstate College of Medicine Outstanding Affiliate Educator of the Year award in 2019 and the SUNY Downstate Neurology Residency Teacher of the Year award in 2023. Dr. Jacoby’s research focuses on medical education and resident-as-teacher initiatives, including the development of curricula and simulations for resident education. He received an ABPN Faculty Innovation in Education grant in 2020 and recently received an American Academy of Neurology Education grant this year.
8:15–9:00 am: Updates in Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Ben Morrison, MD
Attending Physician, Maimonides Medical Center
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A New York native, Dr. Benjamin Morrison graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in religion, concentrating in Sanskrit and biblical literatures, and then attended SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY for medical school, internship, residency in neurology, and fellowship in clinical neurophysiology. He subsequently trained in cognitive and behavioral neurology at Boston University and VA Boston, where he specialized in novel immunologic treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease, before moving to Massachusetts General Hospital as a fellow of interventional neuropsychiatry and neuromodulation, where he specialized in the use of ECT in medically and neuropsychiatrically complex and brittle patients and beyond its classic indications. He has studied psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is an active clinical fellow of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. His clinical interests are disorders of language, functional neurologic disorders, and catatonia. He is currently a cognitive neurologist at Maimonides Medical Center.
9:00–9:45 am: Trending Now in Lifestyle Medicine: Dementia Prevention

Leah Croll, MD, DipABLM
Attending Physician, Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center Maimonides Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
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Leah Croll, MD, DipABLM, is a neurologist, lifestyle medicine specialist, and medical communicator. Dr. Croll is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and attending neurologist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. She completed her neurology residency and stroke fellowship at NYU Langone Health. Dr. Croll is board-certified in neurology, vascular neurology, and lifestyle medicine. Aside from clinical practice in neurology and lifestyle medicine, she is a medical journalist. She has covered a broad range of health and neuroscience stories for the BBC, Good Morning America, ABC News, CNN, NBC News, CBS News and more. She is passionate about fighting medical misinformation in the media and is especially interested in dispelling brain health wellness myths.
9:45–10:30 am: Migraine in Pregnancy

Arathi Nandyala, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine
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Dr. Nandyala is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, specializing in Headache Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of South Florida. She then completed her neurology residency at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, where she served as chief resident during her final year. Subsequently, she completed her fellowship training in headache and facial pain at Stanford University.
10:30–10:45 am: Break/Q&A
10:45–11:30 am: Functional Neurological Disorders (FNDs)

Christian Amlang, MD
Attending Physician, Maimonides Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
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Dr. Amlang is a neurologist specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of movement and functional neurologic disorders. Dr. Amlang is from Germany where he grew up in the beautiful city of Dresden. He went to medical school at the Charité in Berlin as well as at the Université Paris Descartes and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. Fascinated by the field of movement disorders and the intersection between neurology and psychiatry, he trained at various distinguished neurologic institutes around the globe including in Chicago, Dublin, Paris and Berlin. After medical school, Dr. Amlang completed residency at Jacobi Medical Center and Yale New Haven Hospital before joining Columbia University as a movement disorders fellow to finish his training. He is an avid reader and passionate traveler.
11:30 am–12:15 pm: Updates in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)

Marc Dinkin, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Dr. Marc Dinkin is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College. After graduating from Harvard University and Weill Cornell Medical College, he completed his neurology residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where he was also chief resident. Following that, he completed a clinical fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, MA.
Dr. Dinkin has published numerous papers and chapters on topics in his fields including neuromyelitis optica, nystagmus, ischemic optic neuropathy and diagnostic imaging. He has presented abstracts at local, regional, and national conferences in neuro-ophthalmology and neurology. He also serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several major journals in the field. Dr. Dinkin is also an invited lecturer at the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology, the Greater New York Ophthalmology Clinical Lecture Series, the New England Ophthalmological Society and has been awarded numerous awards for teaching and clinical care as well as the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School.
12:15–1:00 pm: Lunch/Q&A
1:00–1:45 pm: Updates in Optic Neuritis

Doria Gold, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Neuro-Ophthalmologist / Neurologist, NYU Langone
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Doria M. Gold, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Neuro-Ophthalmology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she completed her neurology residency and neuro-ophthalmology fellowship after completing medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She treats patients with a broad range of conditions including neuro-inflammatory diseases that affect the optic nerves and visual pathways. She is sub-investigator on two studies focusing on treatment of acute optic neuropathies at NYU.
1:45–2:30 pm: Updates in Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein (MOG) Antibody–Associated Disease (MOGAD) Diagnosis and Treatment

Alexander Jonokuchi, MD
Director of Pediatric Neuroimmunology and Child Neurology Residency Program Director, Maimonides Medical Center
Professor of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
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Dr. Jonokuchi is an attending physician in pediatric neurology at Maimonides and Assistant Professor of Neurology at SUNY Downstate, specializing in adult and pediatric demyelinating and neuroinflammatory disorders. He serves as Site Director for Pediatric Neurology training at Maimonides. After completing his residency in pediatric neurology at NewYork Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center, he was awarded a National Multiple Sclerosis Society Clinical Care Physician Fellowship award and completed his fellowship at NYU Langone under Dr. Lauren Krupp, the founder of the first pediatric MS center in the United States. As a member of the Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody-associated Disease (MOGAD) International Research Consortium, his primary research interest is improving recognition of less common phenotypes in MOGAD and other neuroimmunological conditions in children.
2:30–2:45 pm: Closing remarks and Q&A

Nuri Jacoby, MD, FAAN
Vice-Chair of Neurology, Maimonides Medical Center Co-Clerkship Director & Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
2:45–3:15 pm: Approach to Dizziness: A Hands-On Exam Workshop (in-person)

Galina Gheihman, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
General Neurologist, Mass General Brigham
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Galina Gheihman, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a general neurologist at Mass General Brigham, in Boston, MA. Dr. Gheihman earned her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. She completed her adult neurology residency in the Mass General Brigham Neurology Program, where she served as Chief Resident in 2023-2024. Dr. Gheihman is founder of the NeuEJM Medical Education Journal Club, co-founder of the NeuroHumanities Network, co-leader of the Medical Education Track in the MGB Neurology Residency, and co-director of the Neurology for the Non-Neurologist CME course at MGB. Dr. Gheihman is pursuing a Master of Science in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests including clinician educator career development, arts & humanities, teaching the non-neurologist, clinical uncertainty, and technology, innovation, and AI in medical education. She is founder and host of Neuropraxis: The Neurology Educator’s Podcast. She loves to mentor, teach, and share her enthusiasm for neurology with others.
Continuing education accreditation and credit designation statement
Maimonides Medical Center is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Maimonides Medical Center designates this LIVE ACTIVITY for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure statement
The Medical Society of the State of New York relies upon planners and faculty participants in its CME activities to provide educational information that is objective and free of bias. In this spirit and in accordance with the guidelines of MSSNY and the ACCME, all speakers and planners for CME activities must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose products, devices, or services may be discussed in the content of a CME activity, that might be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.
Symposium presented by
Maimonides Health
Maimonides Neurosciences Institute is recognized for clinical excellence and is a leading center for neurosciences research and medical education. The institute comprises the Divisions of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroradiology, and Neurocritical Care, and the Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center.
Maimonides Department of Neurology offers some of the most advanced and comprehensive neurology services in the country. Our neurologists treat all brain and nervous system conditions and use the most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies.
Brooklyn Neuroscience Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County
The Brooklyn Neuroscience Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County is the first neuroscience center at a public hospital in New York City. It provides outstanding compassionate patient care, research, and education for conditions that affect the nervous system at all stages of life. With an interdisciplinary approach, H+H Kings County links specialists in adult neurology, epilepsy, movement disorders, neurocritical care, neuroendovascular surgery, neuroimmunology, neuroradiology, neurosurgery, pediatric neurology, rehabilitation medicine, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. The robust neuroscience research program features investigator-initiated research along with numerous NIH-funded clinical trials.
H+H Kings County is a teaching affiliate of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Center and trains residents, fellows, and medical students in adult neurology, pediatric neurology, stroke, and clinical neurophysiology.
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University’s Department of Neurology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University’s Department of Neurology is recognized for providing the highest standards of care for the diagnosis and management of neurology patients in Brooklyn. SUNY Downstate is the first and leading university hospital and clinical research center in Brooklyn, and one of the leading neurology and cerebrovascular research centers in the state (in combination with H+H Kings County Hospital’s Thrombectomy Capable Stroke Center and the Jaffe Comprehensive Stroke Center at Maimonides Medical Center). It also supports a National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC)–accredited Level 3 Epilepsy Center.
One Brooklyn Health’s Department of Neurology
The Department of Neurology at One Brooklyn Health (OBH) delivers specialized diagnostic and therapeutic care for neurological conditions across central and eastern Brooklyn. The department treats a wide range of neurological disorders. OBH plays a vital role in regional vascular neurology as a certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. The department offers advanced neuroendovascular interventions, such as neurointerventional surgery and minimally invasive aneurysm procedures, supported by specialized neuroendovascular surgeons, neurosurgeons, and neurocritical care. Its clinical performance has earned national recognition from the American Heart Association, including the Get With The Guidelines® Gold Plus and Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite awards. The department remains committed to expanding access, advanced treatment, and neurological health equity within underserved Brooklyn communities.
Contact us
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Call: 718-283-6411
Email: NeuroSymposium@maimo.org
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