Thank you for your interest in the Child Neurology Residency at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, a premiere training program housed in NYU Langone’s Department of Neurology. Our mission is to train outstanding clinical child neurologists, while nurturing clinical and basic neuroscience research interests.

We innovate education for healthcare providers specializing in childhood neurological conditions and provide state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients across a spectrum of cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our five-year, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)–accredited Categorical Child Neurology Residency program fills three positions annually and offers one of the most extraordinary and diverse training experiences of its kind in the country. Over the course of the program, trainees work with expert faculty in inpatient and outpatient settings at premier private and public institutions.

Residents rotate in up to five hospitals all located within the heart of Manhattan, gaining experience caring for patients and families with diverse and varied backgrounds from all over the world. These locations are located within walking distance of each other and include Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital—34th Street, Tisch Hospital, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, and the Manhattan campus of the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System. Meet our current child neurology residents and recent alumni.

Our world-class faculty members include general and subspecialty child neurologists, who provide emergency, intensive, inpatient, outpatient, and rehabilitation services, and represent all areas of both general and subspecialty pediatric neurology.

The child neurology program is closely integrated with our adult neurology training program, one of the largest in the country, and includes one clinical year of adult neurology spread out over three of the five years of training. Residents have access to NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s extensive adult neurology learning resources, simulation, and didactics throughout training. They engage in scholarly activity in the basic and clinical neurosciences, research, and quality improvement projects.

Our patient-oriented research curriculum, also known as PORC, pairs residents with faculty mentors and provides opportunities for residents to assist in getting research projects off the ground. Each spring, we highlight resident research through presentations and posters hosted at our Annual Neurology Research Symposium. Many of our residents present their work at and have been recognized at national meetings, including those of the Child Neurology Society, American Epilepsy Society, and American Academy of Neurology.

Our learners cultivate interpersonal communication and professionalism skills through an innovative, interactive curriculum at the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences (NYSIM). At NYSIM, you will build skills that include running stroke codes, performing lumbar punctures, examining the fundus, and recognizing approaching brain death.

We value feedback from our residents and seek ways to grow, innovate, and thrive. Division leadership participate in staffing our continuity clinics and are actively involved in weekly child neurology didactic sessions and the pediatric neuroradiology conference. We also offer formal research, educational, and professional mentoring programs, a wellness curriculum, and regular social gatherings for members of our division to form strong relationships and collaborate as a unified team.

When you graduate from our program, you are eligible to take the Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology certifying examination, offered by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the General Pediatrics Certifying Examination of the American Board of Pediatrics.

Throughout training, our residents benefit from living in and taking advantage of all New York City has to offer. The best part of our program is undoubtedly our people and culture, and we invite you to learn more about what it means to be part of our team!

To learn more about our program, please email us:

Aaron Nelson, MD, MBS, FAAP, FAAN
Director, Child Neurology Residency Training Program
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology
Aaron.Nelson@NYULangone.org

Kaleb H. Yohay, MD
Director, Division of Child Neurology
Clinical Professor, Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics
Kaleb.Yohay@NYULangone.org