Deena Kuruvilla, MD

Dr. Kuruvilla earned her medical degree at the Medical University of Lublin in Poland. She completed her medical internship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Subsequently, she completed her Neurology residency at Brown University in Rhode Island, where she was chief resident. She went on to complete a fellowship in Headache and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is board certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and certified in Headache Medicine by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. Dr. Kuruvilla’s primary academic area of interest deals with the procedural side of Headache Medicine, which include nerve block injections, botulinum toxin injections and trigger point injections for the treatment of headache. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and American headache society and actively serves on the special interests sections for the procedural headache medicine and inpatient headache management sections of the American headache society.