Brian John Andrew Gill, MD

Dr. Louis H. Weimer is a Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center. A graduate of Emory School of Medicine, he completed residency training in Neurology at the The Neurological Institute of New York, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, serving as chief resident in his final year. Dr. Weimer completed a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular disease also at Columbia. Dr. Weimer directs the EMG laboratory and the Clinical autonomic laboratory and co-directs the Columbia Neuropathy Research Center. His clinical and research interests include autonomic and small nerve fiber function, dysautonomia, peripheral neuropathy, neurologic causes of syncope, and autonomic failure syndromes. Other special interests include neuropathy from medications and toxins, entrapment neuropathies, Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic syndrome and various other neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Weimer previously served on the board of directors of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and is on the national medical advisory board for the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association. He is a counsel member of the UCNS accreditation board. He is the chair of the quality assurance committee for the department of neurology. He has written numerous papers, book chapters, and review articles and reviews papers for several medical journals and is a section editor for Medlink Neurology and Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. In addition to patient testing, Dr. Weimer sees patients in consultation, in most instances patients with various forms of autonomic dysfunction, peripheral neuropathy, and neuromuscular disorders.

Dr. Elmira Raeifar is an Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC). She is also located at the ColumbiaDoctors Psychiatry Midtown office at CUIMC. Dr. Raeifar completed her doctoral training at Long Island University, Brooklyn, including an internship at Jacobi Medical Center. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia Health, Columbia University. Dr. Raeifar has experience working in a wide range of settings, from inpatient psychiatric units and intensive hospital-based outpatient programs, chemical dependency treatment facilities, to university counseling centers and outpatient mental health clinics. Dr. Raeifar’s interests include helping those who feel stuck: in work, relationships, other aspects of life; those who struggle with anxiety, depression and with people who face issues related to life transitions, identity concerns, and sexuality.