New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Campus Program

Child Neurology Analyst Verified · Oct 3, 2026

New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Campus Program

New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell Campus Program is a residency program specializing in Child Neurology, located in New York, New York, directed by Srishti Nangia, MD and coordinated by Monique Taparelli. The program accepts applications through October 1, 2027 and holds an accreditation status of Continued. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at [email protected] or (212) 746-3278. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.

Program Identity & Fit

This is an academic, tertiary/quaternary child neurology residency embedded in Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, with additional integration into Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Rockefeller University through a tri-institutional research structure. Training follows the standard PGY-3 "adult year" model followed by escalating pediatric neurology inpatient/outpatient responsibility, with structured exposure to EEG, adult neurology ICU, psychiatry, and elective/selective time for individualized subspecialization. The division emphasizes high NIH/NINDS funding relative to other New York child neurology programs and cutting-edge translational tools (genomic CSF analysis, focused ultrasound, deep-learning motion quantification), while explicitly stating it also produces private-practice clinicians, indicating a program comfortable spanning both academic and community-facing outcomes. Leadership language stresses individualized mentorship, non-conformist problem-solving, and returning trainees to a strong clinical-history/physical-exam foundation before further specialization.

Who it fits

An applicant with a strong basic-science or translational neuroscience research background who wants rigorous adult-neurology grounding before pediatric subspecialization, and who is drawn to a high-resource, multi-institutional academic environment without needing to commit exclusively to a bench-research career track.

Research intensity

Strong - research is structurally required (mentored project, research committee, professors' rounds presentation) and the division highlights leading NIH/NINDS funding, though career paths into private practice are explicitly supported as well.

Career orientation

Mixed - Academic Medicine, Fellowship, Physician-Scientist

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