Chen, Iris, MD

Dr. Jeremy Wiygul, originally hailing from Texas, completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees within Texas prior to completing his residency in Urology in Durham, NC at Duke University Medical Center. After which he spent two years at Boston Medical Center as an Attending Urologist, followed by completing a Pediatrics fellowship at LIJ/Cohen Childrens Medical Center (formerly Schneider Childrens Hospital). Once his fellowship concluded, Dr. Wiygul moved with his family back to Boston, where he spent five years as an Assistant Professor of Urology and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as an Attending Urologist at The Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center. This included a final year and a half as Chief of Pediatric Urology, before moving back to New York and joining Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital- Queens.Dr. Wiygul is Board Certified in both Urology and Pediatric Urology, and is a member of the American Urological Association as well as the Society for Pediatric Urology. He treats the full spectrum of pediatric urologic disorders, with a special interest in complex hypospadias repairs as well as bladder exstrophy, a rare congenital disorder. He is skilled in minimally invasive surgical techniques, including laparoscopy and the da Vinci robotic system, in treating a variety of urologic conditions.His research interests include developing surveillance protocols for kidney and bladder conditions. Dr. Wiygul finds the most important service he provides to all patients is treating each little boy or girl he meets like his own three daughters.

Gopi Desai, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Queens and an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. She specializes in pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine.Dr. Desai has a special interest in childhood nutrition and pediatric obesity. She is passionate about serving the Queens community and demonstrates this through her community engagement and advocating for children and families. Dr. Desai graduated from the New York University School of Medicine and completed her pediatrics residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center. After her residency, Dr. Desai joined the faculty at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, where she practiced as a general pediatrician.

Dr. Jules Beal is an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an attending pediatric neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.Dr. Beal received his medical degree (M.D.) from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He trained in Pediatrics at Cohen Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, NY, and completed his residency in Child Neurology and a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at the Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx. He is board certified both in Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, and in Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.His clinical expertise is in childhood seizures, epileptic encephalopathies, neurocutaneous disorders, and migraine, in addition to general pediatric neurology. He has directed specialty clinics dedicated to neurocutaneous disorders and neurogenetic conditions. He also has extensive experience working with critically ill children and managing the neurologic manifestations and complications of complex medical diseases.In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Beal is active in research and education. He has initiated or been involved with multiple hospital-based quality improvement measures. He has participated in numerous clinical trials in child neurology and epilepsy, and has published more than 20 journal articles and chapters. Dr. Beal regularly gives talks to medical professionals on various topics in child neurology, and has been invited to speak at conferences by the American Epilepsy Society and the International League Against Epilepsy. He is a member of the American Epilepsy Society and the Child Neurology Society.