Jason Brant Carmel, MD, PhD

Jason B. Carmel, MD, PhD, is a child neurologist and motor system neuroscientist interested in central nervous system injury and repair. During his postdoctoral fellowship in Jack Martins laboratory, Dr. Carmel developed expertise in corticospinal injury and response to activity-based treatments. Using a combination of anatomy, physiology (brain mapping), and behavior, he has been able to identify the brain circuits that adapt to developmental brain injury.Dr. Carmels Movement Recovery Laboratory uses activity-based therapies, including brain stimulation and intensive behavioral training to promote recovery of function, both in rodents and humans. In a rodent hemiparesis model, they have demonstrated that stimulation of spared motor circuits causes them to sprout at their terminations in the spinal cord, form functional connections with spinal motor circuits, and restore motor skill.Dr. Carmels expertise in animal models of human disease and clinical neurology will allow him to translate the gains in understanding that we hope to achieve in the proposed studies into improved treatments for children with cerebral palsy. This is Dr. Camels goal as a physician-scientist: to direct a truly translational program in which we model activity-based repair strategies in young animals with early brain injury and then use those results to design better treatments for children at risk for cerebral palsy.

Dr. Danielle Emmet, DO is a board-certified physiatrist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Emmet earned her medical degree at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine where she also completed an additional year-long fellowship in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. While in medical school, she conducted clinical research on the association between body awareness, osteopathic manipulative treatment and perceptions of pain, which has since been published. Dr. Emmet completed her internship in Internal Medicine at Westchester Medical Center and residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York Presbyterian-Columbia and Cornell. During residency she pursued advanced training in evaluating and treating pelvic pain and musculoskeletal disorders affecting the pelvic girdle. Clinically, Dr. Emmet cares for a broad range of people. She has a particular interest in treating musculoskeletal causes of pelvic girdle pain and musculoskeletal conditions affecting pregnant and postpartum women. She is passionate about the important role physiatrists play in treating pelvic pain and addressing the healthcare disparity for these conditions which are often undertreated, can be potentially disabling, and greatly impact a person's quality of life. She also provides comprehensive rehabilitation for people living with disabilities and people regaining independence following injuries, illness, or medical treatments. She is skilled in spasticity management for people with neurological conditions. She integrates the principles of lifestyle medicine into the longitudinal care of her patients. She acknowledges the unique psychological experiences and needs of patients undergoing rehabilitation, and has advanced training in psychosomatic medicine. Additionally, she is skilled in providing Osteopathic manipulative treatment. Dr. Emmet is an active member of American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Association of Academic Physiatrists, International Pelvic Pain Society, and American Academy of Osteopathy.

Dr. Daniel Lowenstein is an assistant professor of neurology at CUIMC, in the Division of Child Neurology. Dr. Lowenstein completed his medical doctorate at Tel Aviv Universitys Sackler School of Medicine in Israel, followed by residency training at Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and fellowship training in epilepsy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is board certified in Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology. Dr. Lowenstein sees outpatient pediatric neurology patients, with a focus on pediatric epilepsy, and is also an attending in the pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. Boards and other certifications:ABPN Epilepsy