Devorah Segal, MD, PhD

Devorah Segal, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College and Assistant Attending Pediatrician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She is board certified in Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology.Dr. Segal received her B.A. in Chemistry at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She then earned her MD and a PhD in Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She served as a resident in Pediatrics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where she remained to complete her Pediatric Neurology residency training. Dr. Segal completed a fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at NYU Langone Medical Center prior to joining Weill Cornell in the Division of Child Neurology.Dr. Segal's clinical interests include neurogenetic disorders, pediatric headache, pediatric stroke, pediatric neuro-oncology, neurocutaneous disorders such as neurofibromatosis types 1 and 2, and other brain tumor predisposition syndromes.  Dr. Segal is a member of the Weill Cornell Center for Neurogenetics and is part of ongoing clinical research into several rare neurogenetic disorders, in collaboration with teams around the world.