Divya Jayaraman, MD, PhD
Locations and Appointments
CUIMC/Harkness Pavilion
Insurances Accepted
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- Affinity Health Plan
- Amerigroup of New Jersey
- CIGNA
- Emblem/GHI
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
- Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Fidelis Care
- Healthfirst
- Local 1199
- Magnacare (National)
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- MVP Health Care
- Quality Health Management
- UnitedHealthcare
- WellCare
- World Trade Center Health Plan
About Divya Jayaraman, MD, PhD
Dr. Jayaraman graduated magna cum laude with an undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard College in 2008. She then joined the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program, where she received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 2017. She completed her residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital in 2019. Her training in child neurology at Boston Children's Hospital coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic. After completing child neurology residency in 2022, she stayed at Boston Children's Hospital as a clinical and research neurology fellow, conducting research in the lab of Dr. Alan Beggs on the genetics of inherited muscle disorders, while also seeing patients with neuromuscular disorders in clinic and working as a spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) clinical trial sub-investigator with Dr. Basil T. Darras at Boston Children's Hospital. Finally, she completed a clinical fellowship in neuromuscular medicine and electromyography (EMG) at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2024. She is a diplomate of the ABPN in Child Neurology.
Dr. Jayaraman's clinical expertise and practice focuses on neuromuscular disorders of infancy, childhood and adolescence, including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, myasthenia gravis, inherited and acquired myopathies and neuropathies, as well as general pediatric neurology.
Expertise
Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT)
Child Neurology
Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome (CMS)
Dermatomyositis
Developmental Disorder
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
Guillain-Barre
Myasthenia Gravis
Myopathy
Pediatric Autism
Pediatric Headaches
Seizures
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Tourette Syndrome
Education
Fellowship: Boston Children’s Hospital
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Internship: Boston Children’s Hospital
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Boston Children’s Hospital
Residency: Boston Children’s Hospital
Titles & Positions
Assistant Professor at CUMC
Education
- Medical School: Harvard Medical School
- Internship: Boston Children’s Hospital
- Residency: Boston Children’s Hospital
- Residency: Boston Children’s Hospital
- Fellowship: Boston Children’s Hospital
- Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Awards & Honors
- 2005-06, Harvard College - John Harvard Scholar for academic achievement
- 2006, Harvard College - Detur Book Prize for overall academic achievement
- 2022, Boston Childrens Hospital - “Resident Clinician of the Year”
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor at CUMC