Divya Jayaraman, MD, PhD
Overview
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.
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT)
- Child Neurology
- Developmental Disorder
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
- Guillain-Barre
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Myopathy
- Pediatric Autism
- Pediatric Headaches
- Seizures
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy
- Tourette Syndrome
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor at CUMC
Gender
- Female
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Aetna
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- NYP Employee Plan
- NY Signature
- PPO
- Student Health
Affinity Health Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
Amerigroup of New Jersey
- New Jersey Services (Medicaid Managed Care)
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
Emblem/GHI
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Emblem/HIP
- ConnectiCare
- EPO
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
- Select Care (Exchange)
- Vytra
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthPlus
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
Fidelis Care
- Essential Plan
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
Healthfirst
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Leaf (Exchange)
- Medicare Managed Care
Local 1199
- Local 1199
MagnaCare (National)
- MagnaCare
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
Multiplan
- Multiplan
MVP Health Care
- Child/Family Health Plus
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
Quality Health Management
- Quality Health Management
UnitedHealthcare
- Compass (Exchange)
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid (Community Plan)
- Oxford Freedom
- Oxford HMO
- Oxford Liberty
- POS
- PPO
VNSNY CHOICE
- SelectHealth
- Special Needs
WellCare
- Medicare Managed Care
World Trade Center Health Plan
- World Trade Center Health Plan
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- AB, 2008 Biochemical Sciences, Harvard College
- PhD, 2015 Neurobiology, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- MD, 2017 Harvard Medical School
- Internship, 2018 Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Residency, 2019 Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Residency, 2022 Child Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Fellowship, 2023 Clinical and research in neurology/neuromuscular medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Fellowship, 2024 Clinical neuromuscular Medicine and electromyography, Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Honors & Awards
- 2022, Boston Children’s Hospital - “Resident Clinician of the Year”
- 2017, Harvard Medical School - Henry Asbury Christian Award
- 2006, Harvard College - Detur Book Prize for overall academic achievement
- 2005-06, Harvard College - John Harvard Scholar for academic achievement
Research
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov