Mill Etienne, M.D., M.P.H., FAAN, FAES, is vice president and chief medical officer of the western region for Westchester Medical Center Health Network. He currently directs the “Multiculturalism in Medicine” and “Impact of War on Medicine” electives for fourth-year medical students at NYMC. Dr. Etienne is a visiting scholar at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. He is also past president of the New York State Neurological Society.
Dr. Etienne was the founding director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he also served as director of the autonomic laboratory. While at Walter Reed, Dr. Etienne was associate program director of the neurology residency program and was on the clinical neurophysiology teaching faculty for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the NIH. He was also chief of the Ethics Committee on board the U.S. Naval Ship Comfort during Operation Unified Response, the U.S. military response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. During the spring 2020 peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Etienne was deployed with the Navy to serve in New York City at the Javits Medical Station. He is a captain in the U.S. Navy and currently serves as the executive officer of the USNS Comfort Reserve unit.
Dr. Etienne is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, and American Epilepsy Society. He has authored numerous book chapters and publications in peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and has received multiple teaching awards throughout his tenure at NYMC. Dr. Etienne received the 2025 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges, the 2024 American Academy of Neurology DEI Changemaker Award, and the 2024 American Medical Association Dedication to the Profession Award. Dr. Etienne is board-certified in neurology, epilepsy, clinical neurophysiology, brain injury medicine, and public health.
Dr. Etienne is a Forbes contributor and an unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant with the National Football League.
Education
- Fellowship, Neuroepidemiology, National Institutes of Health and Columbia University
- Fellowship, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University
- Fellowship, Epilepsy, Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University
- Residency, Neurology, Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia University
- Internship, Internal Medicine, Columbia University
- M.D. '02, School of Medicine, New York Medical College
- M.P.H., Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- B.A., Yale University
Areas of Expertise
- Neurology
- Epilepsy and Brain Injury Medicine
- Disaster Medicine
- Access to Healthcare
- Representation in Medicine
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Epilepsy
Publications
- Goldberg C, Whitford T, Elsayed G, et. al. "Informed Consent as Innovation: Redesigning Consent in the Age of AI and Immersive Medicine." Cardiology in review, (), (2026) . doi: 10.1097/CRD.0000000000001440
- Thorman IB, Sacknovitz A, Goyal A, et. al. "Gabapentin and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury: A multinational cohort of 49,925 patients." Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics, (), (2026) e01041. doi: 10.1016/j.neurot.2026.e01041
- Hirani R, Etienne M. "Reader Response: Long-Term Intake of Red Meat in Relation to Dementia Risk and Cognitive Function in US Adults." Neurology, 107(5), (2026) e213529. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000213529
- Jungbauer-Groznica M, Rosenbaum P, Staropoli I, et. al. "Complement augments antibody neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 variants." Science translational medicine, 18(859), (2026) eaec6027. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aec6027
- Fisher K, Ligay A, Stratford M, et. al. "Cardiac Autonomic Dysfunction and Sudden Cardiac Death in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Clinical Implications and Considerations for Care." Cardiology in review, (), (2026) . doi: 10.1097/CRD.0000000000001392
- Whitford T, Goldberg C, Hussain SS, et. al. "Retention Royale: a Gamified Territory-Conquest Add-on for Anki to Enhance Engagement with Spaced Repetition." Medical science educator, 36(3), (2026) 1509-1511. doi: 10.1007/s40670-026-02721-8
- Vazquez Z, Dyce C, Samous S, et. al. "Cardiovascular Manifestations of Epilepsy." Cardiology in review, (), (2026) . doi: 10.1097/CRD.0000000000001375
Memberships and Affiliations
- Life Member, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
- Member, Gold Humanism Honor Society
- Honorary Member, Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society
- Life Member, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
