Craig David Blinderman, MD

Jessica Oppenheimer is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Division of Child Neurology. Currently, in collaboration with attending physicians, she manages pediatric patients with headache disorders and concussions in the outpatient setting, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, learning disabilities, and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder. She graduated from New York University where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, followed by a Master’s degree in Pediatric Nursing. She started her nursing career as a registered nurse on the Pediatric Cardiology-Neurology Unit at the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital where she worked from 2007 to 2011, before moving on to work as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Blythedale Children’s Hospital on the Pediatric/Adolescent and Traumatic Brain Injury Units. In December 2014, she transitioned to her current role in Child Neurology. In addition to her clinical work, she is actively involved in pediatric headache research.

Akin Beckley, MD, MBA is an Assistant Professor and Associate Residency Program Director at Columbia University Medical Center’s Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Beckley also serves as the Medical Director of the Inpatient Unit at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He specializes in seeing patients with neurological problems, cancer, amputations, and cardiopulmonary issues. Dr. Beckley received his undergraduate education at the University of Western Ontario and his MBA and MD from the University of Connecticut. He completed his internship and residency in Surgery at the Hospital of St. Raphael before moving on to complete his residency in Rehabilitation Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Beckley’s interests lie in neurological and cancer rehabilitation. His focus, when treating patients, is to help them get back to their level of function prior to them becoming ill using an interdisciplinary and collaborative method. He employs the help of other departments such as PT and OT to provide the best care necessary for the patient. He also emphasizes the importance of education among his patients and medical students to assure effective continued care.

Debbie Theodore is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, as well as Associate Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. Her research interests include prevention of HIV through the expansion and delivery of PrEP and the implementation and execution of clinical trials of vaccines and broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies for HIV prevention and treatment. Her research also includes prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 through clinical trials of vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and antiviral medication. She has a particular interest in understanding women-specific impacts of infectious diseases.