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Alina Masters-Israilov, M.D.

Neurology

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Personal Statement

Alina Masters-Israilov, MD is a board certified neurologist and UCNS certified headache specialist. She is passionate about personalized patient care and helping to destigmatize migraine and other headache disorders. She performs onabotulinumtoxinA injections for the prevention of chronic migraine as well as pericranial nerve block injections, sphenopalantine ganglion blocks and trigger point injections. 

Biographical Info

Alina Masters-Israilov completed her undergraduate studies at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College in New York. She then attended medical school at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in Brooklyn where she also completed her intern year in internal medicine. She finished her neurology residency and served as chief resident at the Albert Einstein/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She then joined the Montefiore Headache Center to pursue her headache and facial pain fellowship, before joining as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is the associate director for the neurology clerkship and the director for the headache elective for WCM medical students. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and of the American Headache Society, where she was recently awarded the “Frontiers in Headache Research” scholarship award for her research on the onabotulinumtoxinA wear-off phenomenon in chronic migraine.

Honors and Awards

2018 recipient of Frontiers in Headache Research scholarship from the American Headache Society.

Clinical Expertise
Headache
General Neurology
Migraines
Abdominal Migraine, Intractable
Abdominal Migraine, Not Intractable
Cluster Headache
Facial Pain
Languages
English
Russian
Spanish
Education 
  • M.D.
    State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn
    2014
  • B.A.
    Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York
    2010
Appointments 
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
    Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

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