Our Hospitals

The Mount Sinai Hospital

The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded as a charitable hospital in 1852 with a vision to provide medical care for indigent Jews in New York City. At present, the hospital is a 1,134-bed, tertiary-care teaching facility at the center of the largest private hospital network in New York City, the Mount Sinai Health System.  It has an international reputation for being one of the nation’s largest and most respected hospitals and medical schools, and holds true to its central mission of caring for underserved patients from diverse socioeconomic and racial/ethnic backgrounds and communities. This includes a #12 ranking for the Mount Sinai Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Our department is the oldest department of neurology in New York City; we opened our inpatient neurology service in 1900.  For well over a century, our department faculty have made significant contributions to neurological knowledge through clinical and scientific research and have trained many generations of neurologists.  With interdisciplinary centers focused on the most common and most complex neurological disorders, the Department provides patients with a unique blend of personalized care powered by our groundbreaking research teams. This integrated approach is instrumental in our pursuit of improving outcomes in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, CNS autoimmune diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, vestibular disorders and many other neurological disorders, referred from within our expansive health system, as well as from throughout the world.  We also have faculty with specialized training in emerging specialties of neuropalliative medicine, medical informatics, and quality improvement.

Education of medical students, residents and fellows is another important aim of the department.  The Mount Sinai Hospital Neurology Residency was founded in 1957 and has trained generations of neurologists.  Our department also has excellent fellowship opportunities in cerebrovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, neurophysiology, neuromuscular, headache, behavioral neurology, clinical neurophysiology, neuro-otology, neuro-oncology, neuro-infectious diseases, and movement disorders. 

Affiliate Training Sites

New York City Health and Hospitals/Elmhurst

Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, New York, is a high-volume, 545-bed public hospital within the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.  The Hospital is a Primary Stroke Center on track to soon become Thrombectomy Capable, a Level 1 Trauma Center, and a Cardiac Center in the Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Team network. 

Elmhurst serves an area of nearly one million people in the most ethnically diverse community in New York City and the most culturally diverse population in the U.S. Patients at Elmhurst come from across the globe, speaking a multitude of languages and dialects and bringing with them their particular beliefs and customs.  The neurology rotations at Elmhurst provide a uniquely immersive education not just in managing complex neurological diseases, but in communicating effectively about these diseases with an incredibly diverse patient population. During their PGY-3 year, our neurology residents rotate through the inpatient, consultation, and outpatient clinic services at Elmhurst for a total of 6 months, interspersed among their other rotations at Mount Sinai. During this time, they are exposed to extraordinary cultural diversity, as well as diversity of neurological disorders. These months are consistently considered by our residents to be among the most transformative and educational of their residency.

Neurology faculty at Elmhurst are vested in helping the neurology residents develop their own cultural competence through modeling, as well as informal and case-based teaching. To assist in language translation, Elmhurst employs a team of in-house interpreters trained in medical interpretation. The hospital offers a contracted phone medical translation service in 140 languages, including Swahili, Tagalog, Hmong, Basque, and Navajo.

Elmhurst hospital’s mission is to provide the highest quality care regardless of ability to pay. The neurology residents collaborate closely with a highly skilled team of social workers and case managers, all of whom are dedicated to helping the residents learn how to best and most effectively navigate the health care system for these underinsured, uninsured, and undocumented patients.

Director: Joseph Farraye, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Mount Sinai Neurology Residency and Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG) Fellowship Alum

The Bronx VA Hospital

The James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx contains 243 hospital beds, including a mental health inpatient service, nursing home, and spinal cord injury unit, and it is designated as a VA Primary Stroke Center. The facility provides a comprehensive range of medical and surgical subspecialty services. The neurology team consults on patients in every part of the hospital. The outpatient clinic space, home to the neurology resident clinic, and the faculty general and subspecialty neurology clinics, is located in the main hospital and includes six shared consultation-examination rooms, as well as EEG procedure rooms.  

The Bronx VA has the only long-term video EEG monitoring program in the local New York/New Jersey VA network. Comprehensive neuroradiology facilities are available, including MRI, CT, and PET scanners, as well as ultrasonography. The Bronx VA uses the same electronic medical record system as is used throughout the VA system nationally, allowing seamless access to medical records of patients seen at other VA hospitals, as well as active duty health records from the Department of Defense.

Gregory Elder, MD – Director of Neurology
Research Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology