Gayatri Devi

Director of Park Avenue Neurology
Clinical Professor of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Gayatri Devi M.D. is  a New York City neurologist,  board-certified in Neurology, Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, Brain Injury Medicine, and Behavioral Neurology. Born and raised in India, after post-graduate residency training at Downstate and Columbia University, she established a center for neurologic wellness. A past Director of the Long Island Alzheimer’s Disease Assistance Center, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Columbia University; Clinical Core Co-director of the Taub Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Columbia, Director of the NY Memory and Healthy Aging Services, Dr. Devi is currently an Attending Physician at Lenox Hill Hospital | Northwell Health and Clinical Professor of Neurology at Downstate Medical Center. Her research focuses on the optimal treatment of stroke, cognitive loss, and pain, and is published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and her book, Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias. She has been President of the American Medical Women’s Association and the National Council on Women’s Health. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American College of Physicians for her research and community outreach. Her numerous awards include Distinguished Visiting Professor in Women’s Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is neurologic consultant to the NY State Committee for Physician Health and the NFL Players Association. She is also is a NYC Parks Enforcement Patrol Mounted Auxiliary.

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The Many Minds of Memory

Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 2:30pm

Past Event

Memory is not a dusty cellar, open treasure chest, or sealed pandora’s box. It is a dynamic process, a stream of renditions and reflections. It conveys to us not what strictly happened, but embeds us in a retained internal moment, in an external encounter, or an imprint from another’s story. Memory re-enforces, revises, re-edits, and re-interprets… read more »