About
Dr. Sabiha Rashia Merchant is a pediatric neurologist in Fresh Meadows, New York, board certified in Epilepsy and Neurology With Special Qualification In Child Neurology. She is an Attending Physician in Neurology and Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Division of Child Neurology. Dr. Merchant completed her medical degree at Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College in Mumbai, India, followed by pediatric residency training at Brooklyn Hospital Center. She completed a Pediatric Neurology Fellowship at NYU Medical Center and a two-year Epilepsy Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and now serves as Director of the Pediatric Neurophysiology Fellowship at Weill Cornell. Her clinical interests include childhood epilepsy syndromes, neurometabolic diseases, epileptic encephalopathies, and intractable epilepsies that may be surgically treated. She also treats pediatric movement disorders, including tics and Tourette's syndrome.
Conditions Treated
- Headache
- Tourette syndrome
- Tic disorder
Insurances Accepted
Most common in New York
Others
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