Staff
Georges Ghacibeh, MD, MS, FAAN
Dr. Ghacibeh is a neurologist with special expertise in Epilepsy, Behavioral Neurology and Sleep Medicine. He graduated medical school at the Lebanese University in Beirut, then moved to New York where he completed a residency in Neurology at New York University. He served as Chief Resident of Neurology at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Medical Center. He then moved to Gainesville, Florida, to complete a one year fellowship in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, followed by a second fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Ghacibeh is board certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in Clinical Neurophysiology and Video-EEG monitoring by the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Dr. Ghacibeh is an associate professor of neurology at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, and has previously served as assistant professor of Neurology and Medical Director of the EEG laboratory at the University of Florida Medical Center for three years, then moved to New Jersey, where he served as co-director of the comprehensive epilepsy center at Hackensack University Medical Center for five years. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and has published numerous articles in medical journals and chapters in medical textbooks.
Dr. Connors is a neurologist with special expertise in epilepsy and neuromuscular disorders. He received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University, completed neurology residency at New York University, and completed a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Columbia University.
Dr. Connors is board certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, and Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He has published multiple peer-reviewed research articles and was awarded a training grant by the Epilepsy Foundation during his fellowship.
Dr. Connors is an assistant professor of neurology at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and serves as the Director of the Division of Epilepsy and co-director of the ALS program at the Department of Neurology at Hackensack University medical Center.
Pankaj Kakkar, MD, MBA
Dr. Kakkar is a neurologist with special interest in stroke and headaches. He completed medical school education at Robert Woods Johnson in New Brunswick and Neurology Residency at Temple University in Philadelphia. He sees adolescents and adults with all neurological disorders but has a special interest in the treatment of headaches and migraine.
Dr. Kakkar entered medicine as a second career. He was a computer engineering for many years prior to making the difficulty decision to go back to Medical School and become a neurologist.
Eric Mittelmann, MD
Dr. Mittelmann is a board-certified general neurologist with special expertise in neuromuscular disorders. He completed his neurology residency at Montefiore Medical Center followed by a Neuro-muscular fellowhip at Montefiore medical Center. He has special expertise in performing EMG and nerve conduction studies.
Dr. Tsai is a board-certified general neurologist with special expertise in epilepsy. She graduated from Sidney Kimmel Medical College (formerly Jefferson Medical College) and trained in neurology residency at Montefiore Medical Center. She completed additional fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Cornell.
Dr. Leung is a board-certified child neurologist with special expertise in epilepsy and EEG. She received her medical degree at New York College in Osteopathic Medicine. After completed a one year internal medicine internship at Nassau University Medical Center, she moved south for her Child Neurology Residency training at the Virginia Commonwealth University. She returned back to New York to subspecialize in Pediatric Epilepsy at New York Presbyterian Columbia University.
Dr. Jad Donato is a board-certified neurologist with special expertise in the field of epilepsy. He graduated from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School them moved to New York City where he completed both his a Adult Neurology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. Once he completed his residency, at stayed at Montefior edical Center for a year of fellowship in Epilepsy.