Columbia University Medical Center Neurological Institute of New York

The Neurological Institute of New York, is an American hospital research center located at 710 West 168th Street at the corner of

Fort Washington Avenue Fort Washington Avenue is a major north-south street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. It runs from Fort Tryon Park to 159th Street, where it intersects with Broadway. It goes past Bennett Park, the highest natural point ...

in the

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (abbreviated as NYP) is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City. It is the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The hospit ...

Columbia University Medical Center Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) is the academic medical center of Columbia University and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. The center's academic wing consists of Columbia's colleges and schools of Physicia ...

in the Washington Heights neighborhood of

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

History

The institute was founded in 1909 by Joseph Collins, Charles Elsberg (Columbia University P&S neurosurgery chair from 1909 to 1937), Joseph Fraenkel, and Pearce Bailey, as the first hospital and research center in the western hemisphere devoted solely to neurological disorders. From 1910 to 1911, Barbara Spofford Morgan directed the psychological clinic. The Neurological Institute began teaching medical students at

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (officially known as Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons) is the medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irvin ...

in 1921, became affiliated with Presbyterian Hospital – now

– in 1925, and merged with it in 1943. It consists of a department of academic neurology and a department of neurological surgery. The Chair of the Department of Neurology at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons is simultaneously the Neurologist-in-Chief of NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia. *Richard P. Mayeux, MD, MSc - Current *Timothy A. Pedley, MD, FAAN - 1998 to 2011 *Lewis P. “Bud” Rowland, MD - 1973 to 1998 *Milton Shy, MD - 1967 * H. Houston Merritt, MD - 1948 to 1967 The institute's building dates from the original incarnation of Columbia-Presbyterian campus built 1928 by philanthropist

Edward Harkness Edward Stephen Harkness (January 22, 1874 – January 29, 1940) was an American philanthropist. Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Nor ...

and was designed by

James Gamble Rogers James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 – October 1, 1947) was an American architect. A proponent of what came to be known as Collegiate Gothic architecture, he is best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia Univer ...

. An addition was made in 1948, designed by Rogers & Butler.

References

Notes

External links

*
NYP
Neurology website
Obit
for Dr Roland
Interview
with Dr Pedley Hospitals in Manhattan Research institutes established in 1909 1909 establishments in New York City Columbia University research institutes Medical research institutes in New York (state) Hospitals established in 1909 {{Manhattan-struct-stub