Dr. Mandel is a child neurologist with specialty training in epilepsy. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the MD-PhD program at Columbia University. He was a pediatric resident at Montefiore Medical Center and then completed his residency training in pediatric neurology at the Neurological Institute, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He joined the faculty in the Division of Child Neurology in 2003, and received his specialty training in epilepsy at the Neurological Institute.

Dr. Mandel has a special interest in infantile and childhood epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, neuroimaging, fetal neurology, neonatal neurology, and the diagnosis of rare neurological disorders.