Alina Masters-Israilov, M.D. Specialties: Neurology, General Neurology

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About Alina Masters-Israilov, M.D.
Alina Masters-Israilov completed her undergraduate studies at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College in New York. She then attended medical school at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn where she also completed her intern year in internal medicine. She finished her neurology residency and served as chief resident at the Albert Einstein/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She then joined the Montefiore Headache Center to pursue her headache and facial pain fellowship, before joining as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the associate director for the neurology clerkship and the director for the headache elective for WCM medical students. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and of the American Headache Society, where she was recently awarded the "Frontiers in Headache Research" scholarship award for her research on the onabotulinumtoxinA wear-off phenomenon in chronic migraine.
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital
Expertise
Abdominal Migraine, Intractable
Abdominal Migraine, Not Intractable
Cluster Headache
Facial Pain
Headache
Migraines
Education
- Degrees: Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York
- Degrees: State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Languages Spoken
- English
- Russian
- Spanish