Understanding that all patients are unique, the Center for Neuromodulation at Mount Sinai creates an interdisciplinary team centered around your specific condition or diagnosis. Our multi-specialized team partners, communicates and collaborates together, along with your existing physicians, to determine and tailor a treatment that is specifically designed for you.
The Center for Neuromodulation is a collaborative effort among the following Mount Sinai service areas:
- Neurosurgery
Treatments including deep brain stimulation, neuroaugmentative and ablative procedures - Movement Disorders
Conditions including Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia - Epilepsy
Conditions including refractory seizures - Rehabilitation and Pain Management
Conditions including neuropathy, post thoracotomy pain, post mastectomy pain, pelvic pain, pain following joint replacement, phantom limb, post-spine surgery pain, CRPS and cancer-related pain. - Psychiatry
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), major depression, Tourette syndrome - Advanced Circuit Therapeutics
Advancing precision neurosurgical treatments for complex neuropsychiatric disorders through the rapid translation of neuroscience and neuroengineering innovations.
Neurosurgery
Brian H. Kopell, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry
Director, Center for Neuromodulation
Co-Director, Movement Disorders Program
Dr. Kopell, a board-certified neurosurgeon, is a leading international expert in the field of Neuromodulation, specializes in a full range of deep brain stimulation and other neuroaugmentative and ablative procedures. He is fellowship trained in functional and restorative neurosurgery.
Fedor E. Panov, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Associate Director, Adult Epilepsy Program
Dr. Panov, a board-certified neurosurgeon, is an epilepsy and functional surgery specialist with interest in minimally invasive techniques to aid patients suffering from seizures and movement disorders. He is fellowship trained in epilepsy neurosurgery and movement disorders.
Meredith Spadaccia, NP
Meredith is a nurse practitioner who specializes in the global care of neuromodulation patients and will bring a holistic and detailed approach to your care.
Kay Carter
Kay is the medical secretary who manages the daily operations of the Center for Neuromodulation and is your liaison to your personalized treatment team at the Center.
Movement Disorders
Joohi Jimenez-Shahed, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Medical Director, Movement Disorders Neuromodulation and Brain Circuit Therapeutics
Dr. Jimenez-Shahed is a clinician-researcher specializing in movement disorders and DBS, with research interests in investigating the intraoperative neurophysiology of patients undergoing DBS for movement disorders.
Rachel Saunders-Pullman, MD, MPH, MS
Bachmann-Strauss Chair and Professor of Neurology
Dr. Saunders-Pullman is a movement disorders neurologist and clinical researcher specializing in the care of patients with Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, myoclonus, and tremors. Her research focuses on the understanding, detecting, and progression tracking of Parkinson’s disease and dystonia, with the goal of facilitating trials.
Susan B. Bressman, MD
Aan and Joan Mirkin Professor of Neurology
System Vice Chair for Neurology
Site Chair, Neurology at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Mount Sinai West
Director, Bonnie and Tom Strauss Movement Disorders Center
Co-Director, Movement Disorders Program
Dr. Bressman is a board-certified neurologist who focuses on the clinical care and research of movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease and dystonia. Establishing imaging and other disease biomarkers, the NIH, Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson’s Foundation, Michael J. Fox Foundation, and Dystonia Medical Research Foundation have funded her research.
Vicki L. Shanker, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Dr. Shanker is a board-certified neurologist who focuses on the clinical care and research of movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, and essential tremor. After the deep brain stimulator is implanted, Dr. Shanker leads in providing programming and follow-up medication.
Katherine E. Leaver, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Dr. Leaver is a board-certified neurologist dedicated to providing excellent clinical care for patients with movement disorders. She is currently involved in many research projects, including investigating Deep Brain Stimulation outcomes in patients with Parkinson's Disease.
Winona Tse, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
As an Associate Professor of Neurology in the Mount Sinai Movement Disorders Center, Dr. Tse sees patients with Parkinson's disease, tremor disorders, dystonia and other movement disorders.
Matthew Swan, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Dr. Swan is a fellowship trained movement disorders neurologist with advanced training in DBS for Movement Disorders.
Joan Miravite, DNP
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Joan is a family practice nurse practitioner and experienced in programming DBS systems for movement disorders in the adult and pediatric populations since 2000. She teaches programming to fellows and other students nationally.
Mayra Pozo, FNP
Mayra is a nurse practitioner who assists in the medical management of movement disorders providing botulinum toxic injections and DBS programming.
Meredith Spadaccia, AGPCNP-BC
Meredith is a nurse practitioner who cares for patients with movement disorders and other neurological diseases. She holds a degree from Columbia University specializing in Adult Health. Meredith strives to create a positive space for her patients, and promote both physical and mental well-being. Meredith is passionate about DBS programming.
Matthew Swan, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Dr. Swan is a fellowship trained movement disorders neurologist with advanced training in DBS for Movement Disorders.
Christina Palmese Roosen, PhD, ABPP
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Dr. Palmese is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with over 15 years of experience in the field. She holds a special expertise in epilepsy and movement disorders patients having completed a fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center.
Tiffany M. Arnold
Tiffany is the coordinator for the DBS program who is instrumental in chaperoning patients through the candidacy workup towards surgery. She projects the goals and high patient care standards of the program through a number of social media outlets and community outreach initiatives.
Rehabilitation and Pain Management
Corey W. Hunter, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Hunter is a pain management doctor specializing in the treatment of CRPS, pelvic pain, facial pain, and neuropathy. He is considered a key opinion leader in the use of spinal cord stimulation and regenerative medicine with a focus on clinical research studying new and experimental treatments for pain.
Thomas Bryce, MD
Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Dr. Bryce is an expert in spinal cord injury and specializes in intrathecal drug delivery (Baclofen pumps) for spasticity.
Miguel Escalon, MD
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Escalon, an expert in spinal cord injury, specializes in intrathecal drug delivery (drug pumps) and Botox injections for spasticity and pain management.
Kirk Lercher, MD
Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Lercher is an expert on the outcomes and treatment/rehabilitation of patients with stroke and traumatic brain injury. He is an expert on how intrathecal baclofen can help patients with brain injury.
Vincent Huang, MD
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine
Dr. Huang is certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He strives to make each patient’s visit to his practice a pleasant and pain-free experience. Dr. Huang understands that speedy relief is a highly valuable aspect of pain and mobility management and ensures that recuperation can be brought about quickly through his skilled treatment techniques. He focuses on each patient individually by performing thorough physical examinations and diagnoses.
Psychiatry
Martijn Figee, MD, PhD
Director, Interventional Psychiatry Program
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Neuroscience
Dr. Figee focuses on the psychiatric application and study of neuromodulation, in particular deep brain stimulation (DBS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). His research focuses on the role of reward and mood circuits in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression and Parkinson’s disease, and how these circuits can be modulated with DBS. He pioneered the first application of fMRI in DBS-implanted individuals.
Andrew Smith, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Smith works to reduce trial-and-error in psychiatry by advancing individualized modulation of neural circuits. His clinical work at the Center uses transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, and deep brain stimulation to treat illnesses such as major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Shannon O’Neill, PhD
Dr. O’Neill provides pre-surgical psychological assessments as well as ongoing psychotherapy for DBS implanted patients. Primary diagnoses treated within this role include neurological movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, essential tremor), obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome, and major depressive disorder.
Amy Aloysi, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Dr. Aloysi specializes in the neuromodulation management of patients with psychiatric disorders. She offers expertise in non-invasive strategies such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as well as DBS and VNS for depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Advanced Circuit Therapeutics
Helen S. Mayberg, MD
Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry
Director, The Nash Family Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics
Dr. Mayberg is a neurologist renowned for her study of brain circuits in depression and for her pioneering deep brain stimulation research, which has been heralded as one of the first hypothesis-driven treatment strategies for a major mental illness.