Laura S. Boylan


Laura S. Boylan is a neurologist in New York City. She served as an adjunct professor of neurology at the New York University School of Medicine, an attending at Bellevue Hospital New York City Health + Hospitals and consulting neurologist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Education

Laura Boylan graduated and received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed an internship at St Vincent's Hospital and finished her residency in neurology at the Neurological Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Her passion to study neurology evolved from a desire to cure her family disease.

Research and career

Boylan began her research career at a job in the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her advisor inspired her to go back to medical school. She then went on to complete early research in neuromodulation and the psychiatric manifestation of neurologic disease, a focus of her current research. She has contributed to the scientific literature and published and spoken extensively for the general public on medicine, health care policy and reform. Boylan started Locum Tenens work after leaving full-time academe at NYU; this work took her to smaller cities and rural areas in the US. Boylan worked for years as a neurohospitalist in Duluth, Minnesota. Boylan has also taught as an honorary assistant professor in formal didactics and clinical rounds in hospitals in Addis Ababa and Gondar in Ethiopia.

Personal life

Boylan grew up in New York City; she has an older brother of 2 years, Ross Boylan. She was a mother when she started medical school.

Select publications

  • Boylan, Laura; Stein, Zena A.. . Epidemiologic Reviews. 13 : 143–177. .
  • Boylan, L. S.. Archives of Internal Medicine. 159 : 2091–2092. . PMID 10511000
  • Boylan, Laura S.. . American Journal of Psychiatry. 157 : 1343–1344. doi:. ISSN
  • Boylan, L. S.; Haskett, R. F.; Mulsant, B. H.; Greenberg, R. M.; Prudic, J.; Spicknall, K.; Lisanby, S. H.; Sackeim, H. A.. . The journal of ECT. 16 : 3–18. doi: ISSN PMID
  • Boylan, L. S.; Devanand, D. P.; Lisanby, S. H.; Nobler, M. S.; Prudic, J.; Sackeim, H. A.. The journal of ECT. 17 : 175–179. doi ISSN PMID
  • Boylan, Laura S.; Fouladvand, Mohammad. . Neurology. 56 : 576–577. doi: ISSN
  • Boylan, L S. . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 70 : 137a–138. doi:10.1136/jnnp.70.1.137a PMC PMID 11118274
  • Boylan, L. S.; Pullman, S. L.; Lisanby, S. H.; Spicknall, K. E.; Sackeim, H. A.. "". Clinical Neurophysiology: Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. 112 : 259–264. doi:10.1016/s1388-245700519-8. ISSN 1388-2457. PMID 11165527.
  • Boylan, L. S.; Flint, L. A.; Labovitz, D. L.; Jackson, S. C.; Starner, K.; Devinsky, O.. "". Neurology. 62 : 258–261. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000103282.62353.85. ISSN 1526-632X. PMID 14745064.
  • Boylan, Laura S.. Neurology. 69 : 1640. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000285525.64585.45. ISSN 0028-3878. PMID