Jay P. Mohr, MD
Overview
Dr. Mohr is from Lynchburg, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Episcopal School, Haverford College, and the University of Virgina where he was a USPHS 5-Year Plan Fellow and received an MS (Pharmacology) and MD. He trained in Medicine at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, in Neurology at the New York Neurological Institute, and in Neuropathology and Stroke at the Massachusetts General Hospital (C.M. Fisher). After 3 years Army service at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research during the Vietnam War, he returned in 1971 to the Massachusetts General Hospital to found and direct the Stroke Service and the Neuro Intensive Care Unit, and the Neurology Unit at the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Hospital. He became founding Chairman of the Department of Neurology and the University of South Alabama, and returned in 1983 to the Neurological Institute as the first Sciarra Professor of Neurology and is now the Director of the newly-formed Doris and Stanley Tananbaum Stroke Center. He is author or co-author of a variety of peer-reviewed and invited publications and a few books.
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Second Opinion
- Stroke
Academic Appointments
- Sciarra Professor of Neurology
Administrative Titles
- Director, Doris and Stanley Tananbaum Stroke Center
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Languages
- German
- Spanish
Gender
- Male
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Insurance Accepted
Aetna
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- EPO
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- NYP Employee Plan
- NY Signature
- POS
- PPO
- Student Health
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- EPO
- HMO
- PPO
MagnaCare (National)
- MagnaCare
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
Oxford Health Plans
- Freedom
- Liberty
RiverSpring
- Special Needs
UnitedHealthcare
- Columbia University Employee Plan
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- Internship: Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
- Residency: Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY
- Fellowship: Massachussetts General Hospital
Board Certifications
- Neurology
- Vascular Neurology
Honors & Awards
Honors
Medical School
1959-63 Joseph P. Collins Foundation scholarship in Neurology, University of Virginia
1963 Walter Reed Student-Faculty Research Prize, University of Virginia
Society honors
1995 Frank Netter Award for Clinical Research, American Academy of Neurology
1996 Award for Clinical Excellence in Stroke, American Heart Association
1997 American Men & Women of Science
2001 NIH CC Great Teachers Award
2003 Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association, founding awardee
2004 Distinguished Scientist Award, American Stroke Association, founding awardee
2009 Diana Tamari Sabbagh Memorial Lesture, American University Beirut
2006 Distinguished Service to Stroke Award, American Heart Association
2009 Joseph Wepner Award, 18th European Stroke Conference, Stockholm
2011 Raymond D. Adams award, American Neurological Association
2012 C. Miller Fisher Stroke Visionsary Award, AHA Northeastern Stroke Association
Elected societies
1963 American Association for the Advancement of Science
1980 American Neurological Association
1988 Soci francaise de Neurologie
1991 Australasia Neurological Society
1992 Academia Brasileiro de Neurologia, honorario
1993-95 Councilor, American Neurological Association
1999 Austrian Stroke Society, honorary member
Other
1977 Best Doctors in America, Town & Country Magazine
1978 Who's who in the Southeast
1979-81 Student teaching award as best department (Neurology), University of South Alabama
1980 Who's Who; Who's Who in the World; Wer ist Wer (Germany)
1983-98 Best Doctors in America, Town & Country Magazine
1991-98 400 Best Doctors in the US, Good Housekeeping magazine
1993- Who's Who in the World
1994- Best Doctors in the US
1996- Best Doctors in America, American Health magazine.
2004- Who's Who in America
2009- Who’s Who in Healthcare and Medicine
2009 American Heart Association Distinguished Service to Stroke Award
2010- Super Doctors, NY Times
2012- Top Doctors for 15 Years
2012 World Stroke Organization Awards Committee
2013- 2nd World Arteriovenous Malformation Congress, scientific committee, 2014
2013- Scientific committee, 9th World Stroke Congress, Istanbul, 2014
2013- Top Neurologist in New York, NY in Leading Physicians of the World
1995 Frank Netter Award for Clinical Research, American Academy of Neurology
1996 Award for Clinical Excellence in Stroke, American Heart Association
1997 American Men & Women of Science
2001 NIH CC Great Teachers Award
2003 Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association, founding awardee
2004 Distinguished Scientist Award, American Stroke Association, founding awardee
2009 Diana Tamari Sabbagh Memorial Lesture, American University Beirut
2006 Distinguished Service to Stroke Award, American Heart Association
2009 Joseph Wepner Award, 18th European Stroke Conference, Stockholm
2011 Raymond D. Adams award, American Neurological Association
2012 C. Miller Fisher Stroke Visionsary Award, AHA Northeastern Stroke Association
Elected societies
1963 American Association for the Advancement of Science
1980 American Neurological Association
1988 Soci rancaise de Neurologie
1991 Australasia Neurological Society
1992 Academia Brasileiro de Neurologia, honorario
1993-95 Councilor, American Neurological Association
1999 Austrian Stroke Society, honorary member
Other
1977 Best Doctors in America, Town & Country Magazine
1978 Who's who in the Southeast
1979-81 Student teaching award as best department (Neurology), University of South Alabama
1980 Who's Who; Who's Who in the World; Wer ist Wer (Germany)
1983-98 Best Doctors in America, Town & Country Magazine
1991-98 400 Best Doctors in the US, Good Housekeeping magazine
Research
Research is focused on clinical, radiologic and pathologic correlations of clinical stroke syndromes; doppler studies and cerebral hemodynamics of large-artery disease; arteriovenous malformations (AVMs); studies of the course and outcome of stroke and its various subtypes; cardiac and hematologic risk factors of stroke; and modification of stroke outcome by specific therapies tested in multi-center trials.
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov