Weill Cornell Medicine

The headache medicine elective for medical students at Weill Cornell provides an opportunity for medical students to be fully immersed in headache specialty clinics with our group of headache specialists. Students obtain headache histories and exams, formulate diagnostic and treatment plans, and participate in procedures such as nerve block and onabotulinumtoxinA injections. Students also present to the headache team on a topic of their choice within headache medicine.

Headache Faculty: Alina Masters-Israilov, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology, Director of Medical Student Headache Elective, Neurology Clerkship Associate Director

Address: 1300 York Ave, New York, NY 10065

Focus: Adult

Rotation Duration: 2 Weeks

Number of Headache Teaching Attendings: 8

Offerings: Outpatient, Procedures, Case Conference. Student has the opportunity to present a headache topic to headache teaching attendings at the end of the elective. They may also join Neurology Grand Rounds and any other department talks if interested (all Neurology topics).

Headache Fellowship: Yes

Prerequisites: Neurology OR Medicine clerkship completed

Accepts Visiting Students: Yes

Financial Support: Weill Cornell-Qatar students may also take this elective. When they are in NYC, they live in housing provided by the Weill Cornell-Qatar school.

Request By: 1 month in advance of the start of the elective. Students have months in advance to sign up, but have until 30 days prior to add/drop.

For more information, please contact Alina Masters-Israilov, MD, Associate Director, Neurology Clerkship at alm9268@med.cornell.edu or Dionne Grinage at dig4001@med.cornell.edu.