Designated a Center of Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Care and Research
Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmune Disorders
Columbia University Multiple Sclerosis Center
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an extremely variable illness that seems to affect each individual differently. It is our mission to provide patients with compassionate and superior care, lessen the impact that MS has on patients, families, and caregivers, enhance quality of life, and develop safe, effective disease-modifying and symptomatic therapies for the treatment of MS.
Columbia University Multiple Sclerosis Center
The Columbia University Multiple Sclerosis Center is a world-class treatment and research facility devoted to exemplary patient care and ground-breaking clinical research for multiple sclerosis (MS) and related disorders. Our multidisciplinary team is comprised of healthcare providers with particular expertise in the complex needs of individuals living with MS. Our experts include:
- Neurologists (both adult and pediatric)
- Nurse practitioners
- Clinical research coordinator
- Psychiatrists
- Neuropsychologists
- Urologists
- Neuro-ophthalmologists
- Rehabilitative specialists
- Experts in pain management
Our Services
To meet the specific needs of both adult and pediatric patients with MS and related disorders, our services include:
- Comprehensive diagnostic evaluations
- Ongoing education and counseling for patients and their loved ones
- Treatment with the most current and effective disease-modifying therapies
- Comprehensive injection training with disease-modifying therapies
- Symptomatic therapies (e.g. treatments to alleviate fatigue, and weakness)
- Outpatient infusion services
- A cutting-edge clinical trial and research program
- State-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at several locations, including the world-class Hatch Magnetic Resonance Research Center for patients involved in clinical trials
- Neuro-ophthalmology evaluations
- Visual and brainstem auditory evoked potentials
- Ocular coherence tomography
- Evaluation and treatment of bowel and bladder symptoms
- Physiatry evaluations and physical/occupational therapy
- Neuropsychological testing to evaluate cognitive and memory problems
- Psychiatry and psychology referrals for treatment of depression and mood disorders
- Pain management
- Speech therapy to address speech and swallowing problems
- Plasma exchange for severe MS attacks that do not respond to intravenous steroids