Our one-year Vascular Neurology Fellowship Program focuses on all aspects of cerebrovascular diseases, and provides care ranging from state-of-the-art acute stroke treatment to stroke prevention. Working in the Montefiore Comprehensive Center for Stroke Care, the highest volume center of its kind in New York City, fellows are provided comprehensive exposure to the evaluation and management of both common and uncommon cerebrovascular diagnoses. The fellowship emphasizes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary patient care, and is accompanied by a robust didactic program. Upon completion of training, fellows are well prepared to take on academic, hospitalist or stroke director roles. 

Our one-year, ACGME-accredited Epilepsy Fellowship Program provides trainees extensive exposure within the epilepsy monitoring unit and outpatient settings, as well as experience with long-term EEG monitoring studies of critically ill patients. During training, fellows divide time equally between the adult and pediatric services, and participate in the interdisciplinary evaluation of patients for epilepsy surgery. Our program emphasizes the integration of historical data, phase 1 EEG data, high-density EEG studies, neuropsychological information and MRI, SPECT and PET studies. This emphasis supports the development of surgical hypotheses and plan intracranial investigations as well as the selection of patients for resective surgery, thermoablation or neurostimulation. As part of their clinical experience, fellows participate in intracarotid sodium amobarbital procedures (Wada tests), sEEG and grid-strip phase 2 monitoring, electrocorticography and intra- and extra-operative functional mapping. While working in dedicated clinics, fellows learn to program responsive neurostimulation (RNS) and vagus nerve stimulators (VNS). Additionally, fellows learn to select patients for dietary treatment of epilepsy in collaboration with an epilepsy-trained nutritionist. Elective and research time is tailored to the trainee’s interests and career goals.

Available to graduates of ACGME-accredited neurology residencies, our Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship provides fellows with comprehensive training in the evaluation and management of adult and pediatric outpatient and inpatient neuromuscular disorders. 

Our curriculum includes subspecialty clinics (MDA and Myasthenia), neuromuscular consultation, electrodiagnostic testing, neuromuscular ultrasound, neuropathology (skin, nerve, muscle), extensive didactics and opportunities for clinical research. 

Following training, fellows are prepared for academic and private practice opportunities, and are eligible to sit for board certification with the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ABEM) and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology—Added Qualifications in Neuromuscular Medicine and in Neuromuscular Ultrasound (ABPN—AQNM and AQNU). 
 

First opened in the 1940s to treat returning WWII veterans with post-traumatic headaches, the Montefiore Einstein Headache Center is the first center in the world dedicated exclusively to the diagnosis and treatment of headache disorders and facial pain. The Center is committed to excellence in the diagnosis and treatment of headache disorders, advancing the current knowledge of headache through research and moving scientific discoveries into clinical practice. 

Our one-year, UCNS-accredited Adult Fellowship Program exposes fellows to a wide breadth of headache disorders in the outpatient and inpatient settings. Led by a growing faculty, our program instills in our fellows unique principles of individualized headache evaluation and patient-centered approaches to treatment. Past trainees of our program have gone on to become leading and influential experts in the headache field. 
 

The Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Einstein was established in 1975 as a clinical and research facility, one of only a few of its kind at the time. In 1977, the program became the first to be accredited by the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers, now known as the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Since its inception, our Sleep-Wake Disorders Center has cared for patients with a wide range of conditions, including sleep-related breathing disorders, parasomnias, insomnia, circadian rhythm disorders and sleep disorders associated with medical and psychiatric disorders. 

ACGME-accredited since 2005, our one-year Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program is devoted to ambulatory and inpatient clinical experiences and offers fellows the opportunity to rotate through three primary areas of sleep medicine at Montefiore Einstein: the adult neurology-focused Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, the pediatric Sleep Disorders Center at CHAM and the pulmonary-focused Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders facility. Additionally, fellows may rotate with dentists performing oral appliance fittings for sleep apnea management and ENTs evaluating patients for surgical options for sleep apnea management. 

Fellows benefit from a number of ongoing clinical research and pharmaceutical research trials between the Sleep Medicine Training Program and various other departments within Montfiore-Einstein. 
 

Our one-year, UCNS-accredited Geriatric Neurology Fellowship Program offers fellows highly supervised training within the Montefiore Hudson Valley Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease (CEAD) and in conjunction with the Montefiore Einstein Center for the Aging Brain (CAB). This program benefits from the CEAD’s expanding network of hospitals and physician groups in the Hudson Valley, and CAB’s years of expertise and best-in-class practices. While training, fellows also have access to research and training opportunities within Montefiore Einstein. 

Fellows of the program are taught one-on-one by a multidisciplinary team of specialists that include board certified neurologists, geriatricians, neuropsychologists, geriatric psychiatrists and social workers. Training takes place at the Diagnostic and Resource Center, which offers advanced care and services to its patients, including treatment, support, counseling, education and assistance with community-based services for individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias and their families.

The CEAD is one of ten Alzheimer’s Disease Centers of Excellence supported in part by a grant from the New York State Department of Health. The grant supports an ambitious program that endeavors to expand knowledge about Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias and improve access to screening, diagnosis and clinical trial opportunities for patients. The program also provides community-based support services for these patients and their caregivers, and offers training programs for providers in all clinical disciplines. During their training, fellows have ample opportunity to lead patient care and to assume greater responsibility over residents and medical students. Fellows also gain exposure to clinical trials, and have access to a strong research foundation under NIH grants.