Tracey A. Milligan, M.D., M.S.
Tracey A. Milligan, M.D., M.S., a distinguished clinician and expert in epilepsy treatment, is chair of the Department of Neurology at NYMC, and director of neurology at Westchester Medical Center. Prior to joining NYMC, Dr. Milligan served as associate professor at Harvard Medical School and vice chair for education in the Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During her residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, she created the neurology volunteerism program with the Brigham and Women's Outreach Program Indian Health Service. Dr. Milligan brings more than two decades of experience to NYMC.
Areas of Expertise
With more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Milligan brings additional expertise to improve neurologic health through education, research and service.
Dr. Milligan’s research and teaching accelerates the understanding of, and treatment for, many neurological disorders and conditions while enhancing neuroscience education for medical students.
Education
- M.S., Speech-Language Pathology, Emerson College
- M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Residency, Neurology, Massachusetts General/Brigham and Women's Hospitals
- Fellowship, Neurophysiology/Epilepsy, Massachusetts General/Brigham and Women's Hospitals
Honors and Awards
- Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award for Exceptional Institutional Service, Harvard Medical School
Research
As a practicing clinician-educator, Dr. Milligan focuses her research on best practices in education and on patients with epilepsy and has served on the board of directors of the Epilepsy Foundation of New England and as chair of the Professional Advisory Board.
Publications
- Milligan TA. "Unveiling the Impact of Seizures While Driving: A Retrospective Cohort Study on Type, Frequency, and Consequences in People With Epilepsy Prior to Diagnosis." Epilepsy currents, 24(5), (2024) 329-330. doi: 10.1177/15357597231218084
- Milligan TA. "Quelling the Area Tempesta: Removal of the Piriform Cortex Improves the Outcomes of Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy." Epilepsy currents, 23(1), (2022) 23-25. doi: 10.1177/15357597221137410
- Doughty CT, Gheihman G, Milligan TA, et. al. "Curriculum Innovations: Improving Residents' Knowledge and Interest in Outpatient Neurology Through an Interactive Patient-Centered Didactic Series." Neurology. Education, 2(1), (2023) e200043. doi: 10.1212/NE9.0000000000200043
- Milligan TA, Yun A, LaFrance WC Jr, et. al. "Neurology residents' education in functional seizures." Epilepsy & behavior reports, 18(), (2021) 100517. doi: 10.1016/j.ebr.2021.100517
- Milligan TA. "What's in Your Nomogram? Personalized Prognostication of Verbal Memory Decline after Temporal Lobe Resection in Adults With Epilepsy." Epilepsy currents, 22(1), (2021) 41-42. doi: 10.1177/15357597211058270
- Solomon JM, Bhattacharyya S, Ali AS, et. al. "Randomized Study of Bedside vs Hallway Rounding: Neurology Rounding Study." Neurology, 97(9), (2021) 434-442. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012407
- Gheihman G, Forester BP, Sharma N, et. al. "Identifying and Analyzing Systems Failures: An Interactive, Experiential Learning Approach to Quality Improvement for Clerkship-Level Medical Students." MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources, 17(), (2021) 11151. doi: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11151
