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Tristan T. Sands, MD, PHD

Pediatric Neurology
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Pediatric Neurology,

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iconAbout Tristan T. Sands, MD, PHD

Tristan T. Sands, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons (Columbia VP&S) Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics. He is a pediatric neurologist who treats children and babies suffering from epilepsy and a physician scientist with expertise in genetic causes of epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disease. Dr. Sands completed his MD-PhD at Columbia VP&S through a Medical Scientist Training Program with thesis work in lab of Dr. Arnold Kriegstein. During child neurology residency at UCSF, Dr. Sands trained in electroclinical phenotyping of the epilepsies under Dr. M. Roberta Cilio. After finishing his clinical training at Colum...

Board Certifications

  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Epilepsy
  • Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology

iconExpertise

  • Developmental & Epileptic Encephalopathy
  • Drug resistant epilepsy
  • Genetic Epilepsies
  • Neonatal and Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathies

iconEducation

  • Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Residency: University Of California At San Francisco
  • Residency: University of California San Francisco Medical Center

iconTitles & Positions

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics

iconHospital Affiliations

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital