Optum Pediatrics-Forest Hills

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.

Dr. Tammy Hennika received her B.S. at Michigan State University and her medical school degree (M.D.) at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. Following her residency in Pediatrics at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Dr. Hennika completed a Fellowship in Child Neurology at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri and a Fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. She returned to New York City and joined the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, as a Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Instructor and recipient of a NSADA (K12) award with a research focus on medulloblastoma.She is board certified in Neurology with special qualifications in Child Neurology and in Neuro-Oncology.

Charles Tyshkov, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and Attending Child Neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. He graduated from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and finished his residency in Child Neurology at New York Presbyterian Columbia Medical Center. Dr. Tyshkov continued his training at New York University Langone Medical Center, where he completed a fellowship in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis.In addition to General Child Neurology, his clinical and research interests include Neuroimmunology, Neuroinflammation, and the various autoimmune syndromes affecting the nervous system (ADEM, MS, NMO, etc.).Dr. Tyshkov is an active member of the Weill Cornell Medicine research community, where he is working with colleagues at the MS Center on investigating neuroradiological correlates of cognitive performance.