Speciality Spotlight: Dr. Devorah Segal, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology

JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

Dr. Devorah Segal was born in Baltimore and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Prospect Park Yeshiva and went to BJJ seminary, followed by Brooklyn College. She attended Mount Sinai Medical School, where she earned her medical degree and a PhD in neuroscience. She then completed a residency in child neurology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a fellowship in pediatric neuro-oncology at NYU.

Dr. Segal practiced general child neurology and neurogenetics at Weill Cornell for several years, where she was also the director of the Child Neurology residency training program. She then returned to NYU, where she practices pediatric neuro-oncology and is the Associate Director of the Comprehensive Neurofibromatosis Center at NYU and the director of the pediatric neuro-oncology fellowship. Dr. Segal is the principal investigator or co-investigator of several clinical trials looking for new treatments for nervous system tumors. She is also the site principal investigator of a clinical trial studying a treatment for metachromatic leukodystrophy.

Dr. Segal lives in Passaic, NJ with her husband and 5 children, all of whom were born while she was in medical school.