Dr. Jules Beal is an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an attending pediatric neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.

Dr. Beal received his medical degree (M.D.) from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He trained in Pediatrics at Cohen Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, NY, and completed his residency in Child Neurology and a fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at the Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx. He is board certified both in Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology, and in Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

His clinical expertise is in childhood seizures, epileptic encephalopathies, neurocutaneous disorders, and migraine, in addition to general pediatric neurology. He has directed specialty clinics dedicated to neurocutaneous disorders and neurogenetic conditions. He also has extensive experience working with critically ill children and managing the neurologic manifestations and complications of complex medical diseases.

In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Beal is active in research and education. He has initiated or been involved with multiple hospital-based quality improvement measures. He has participated in numerous clinical trials in child neurology and epilepsy, and has published more than 20 journal articles and chapters. Dr. Beal regularly gives talks to medical professionals on various topics in child neurology, and has been invited to speak at conferences by the American Epilepsy Society and the International League Against Epilepsy. He is a member of the American Epilepsy Society and the Child Neurology Society.