Assistant Professor of Neurology
223 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
Phone: (646)558-0891
Fax: (646) 385-7164
Dr. Tracy Butler is an assistant professor of neurology at NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center. Her research uses positron emission tomography, functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging, and complementary electrophysiological techniques to investigate neuropyschiatric and neuroinflammatory aspects of human epilepsy. She graduated with honors from Amherst College with undergraduate majors in philosophy and neuroscience. She completed medical school, neurology residency, and fellowship training in epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Columbia University. She also was an NIH- sponsered research fellow in cognitive neuroimaging at the Functional Neuroimaging Labratory in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is a member of several professional organizations including Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. Dr. Butler is also an ad hoc reviewer for Neuroimage, Lancet, Archives of Neurology, Archives of Psychiatry, American J. Psychiatry, Epilepsy and Behavior and the Journal of Neuroimaging.
Undergraduate:
Amherst College 1989
Medical Education:
Columbia University 1996
Internship:
Columbia- Presbyterian Medical Center 1996-1997
Residency:
Columbia University, Neurological Institute