Locations and Appointments
CUIMC/Harkness Pavilion
ColumbiaDoctors - Columbus Circle
Insurances Accepted
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About Jesus D. Villamizar, MD
Jesus D. Villamizar, MD is an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Division of Child Neurology. Dr. Villamizar graduated from Rutgers University and medical school at St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada. He completed child neurology residency at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA and a fellowship in epilepsy at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Villamizar is a pediatric and neonatal neurologist and epileptologist with clinical focuses on seizures, infantile and childhood epilepsy, and epilepsy surgery.
Specialties & Expertise
- Benign Neonatal Epilepsy
- Child Neurology
- Dravet syndrome
- Electrical Status Epilepticus during Sleep (ESES)
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Epilepsy
- Epilepsy Surgery
- Epilepsy with Myoclonic-Atonic Seizures (Myoclonic-Astatic Epilepsy, Doose syndrome)
- Epileptic Encephalopathies
- Epileptic Seizures
- Landau Kleffner Syndrome
- Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
- Neonatal and Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathies
- Neonatal Epilepsy
- Neonatal Neurology
- Ohtahara syndrome and Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy
- Pediatric Epilepsy
- West syndrome
Education
- Medical School: St. George's University – School of Medicine
- Internship: UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Residency: UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Leadership, Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor of Neurology at CUMC
