Meet Our New Fall 2025 Faculty

Please join us in welcoming new faculty!

Shital Patel, MD, MHA

Division of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology

Shital Patel, MD, MHA, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Critical Care and Hospitalist Neurology. Dr. Patel earned her medical degree from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and completed her internship in internal medicine and residency in adult neurology at Virginia Commonwealth University. She then pursued a fellowship in vascular neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As a neurohospitalist, Dr. Patel specializes in the inpatient care of acute neurological disorders and emergencies, with particular expertise in vascular neurology and the acute management of stroke.

Luke Quehl, MD

Division of Child Neurology

Luke Quehl, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at CUIMC in the Division of Child Neurology. He earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his neurology residency at the University of North Carolina. Before joining Columbia, Dr. Quehl cared for infants and children with a wide range of neurological conditions at Boston Children’s Hospital and Tufts Medical Center. His clinical focus includes seizures, newborn brain injury, early developmental concerns, and long-term neurodevelopmental follow-up.

Dr. Quehl’s research background includes work in tic and movement disorders. He now focuses on neonatal neurology, with an emphasis on improving seizure detection in newborns and identifying early predictors of neurodevelopmental outcomes after brain injury.

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Luke Quehl, please call 646-426-3876.