ACN East - Neurology
525 East 68th Street
6th Floor
New York, NY 10021
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Dr. Merkler is a native New Yorker who received his undergraduate degree from Brown University where he graduated magna cum laude. Dr. Merkler earned his medical degree from New York University where he received the prestigious Rosenbluth Grant for international laboratory research. Dr. Merkler completed residency in neurology at the Weill Cornell Medical College and served as the Chief Resident in his final year. Dr. Merkler then completed a two-year fellowship in neurocritical care at Columbia University / Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Merkler is board certified in Neurology and Neurocritical Care. Dr. Merkler is an expert in stroke and acute brain and spine...
Board Certifications
- Neurology
Education
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- Medical School: NYU / Grossman School of Medicine
Languages
- English
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Attending Neurologist
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Newyork-Presbyterian Gracie Square Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital
Education
- Medical School: NYU / Grossman School of Medicine
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Awards & Honors
- 2021 Siekert New Investigator Award in Stroke
- 2020 Weill Cornell Medicine Covid-19 Research Grant
- 2019 American Neurological Association Travel Award
- 2018 Career Development Award from the Americaxn Heart Association
- 2017 Neurology Best Faculty Teaching Award
- 2017 KL2 Award from the NIH
- American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting Fellow Scholarship Award
- Neurology Resident Teaching Award, Cornell University
- American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting Resident Scholarship Award
- Chief Resident in Neurology at Cornell
- Rosenbluth Foundation Travel Grant for research conducted in Peru through NYU School of Medicine
- Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, Brown University
- Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Attending Neurologist
- Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Board Certifications
- neurology
Languages Spoken
- english