CUMC NEWSROOM
May 10, 2017

Neurologist and neuroscientist Melodie Winawer, MD, associate professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), has always written, ever since she was a young child. Essays, poetry, short stories, and, at age 15, the beginnings of a novel. When asked in 10th grade to give a one-word description of herself, she said “storyteller.”

Dr. Winawer became a physician, researcher, and an educator instead of pursuing an early career as a fiction writer. At CUMC, she sees patients; searches for epilepsy genes using mouse models, computational genomics, and human studies; and designs neuroscience courses for medical students. [read more]