TheNeurological Institute of New York is an American hospital research center located at 710West 168th Street at the corner ofFort Washington Avenue in theNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital /Columbia University Medical Center in theWashington Heights neighborhood ofManhattan,New York City.
The institute was founded in 1909 byJoseph Collins, Charles Elsberg (Columbia University P&S neurosurgery chair from 1909 to 1937), Joseph Fraenkel, and Pearce Bailey, as the first hospital and research center in the western hemisphere devoted solely to neurological disorders. From 1910 to 1911,Barbara Spofford Morgan directed the psychological clinic.[1]
The Neurological Institute began teaching medical students atColumbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1921,[2] became affiliated withPresbyterian Hospital – nowNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital – in 1925, and merged with it in 1943. It consists of a department of academic neurology and a department of neurological surgery.
The Chair of the Department of Neurology at Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons is simultaneously the Neurologist-in-Chief of NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia.
The institute's building dates from the original incarnation of Columbia-Presbyterian campus built 1928 by philanthropistEdward Harkness and was designed byJames Gamble Rogers.[3] An addition was made in 1948, designed by Rogers & Butler.[4][5]
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