L Kan Child Neurology

Dr. Sabiha Merchant is a Child Neurologist practicing at NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group Queens located in Fresh Meadows, NY. She received her medical degree from Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College Shivaja University, completed her residency in Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist, her fellowship in Child Neurology and a two year fellowship in Epilepsy. Dr. Merchant specializes in Pediatrics, Child Neurology, and Pediatric Neurology with expertise in tic disorder, movement disorder, pediatric epilepsy, tourette syndrome, and neurometabolic disorder.Dr. Merchant is an Attending Physician in Neurology and Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Division of Child Neurology. She also serves as Director of the Pediatric Neurophysiology fellowship at Weill Cornell.

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.

Glenn Waldman MD is a Board Certified Neurologist and is a teaching attending for the Neurology residency training program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital. Dr. Waldman administers Botox for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches, torticollis, blepharospasm/hemifacial spasm, writer's dystonia and spasticity. Dr. Waldman co-authored the first paper describing the West Nile Virus Encephalitis outbreak.