David Myland Kaufman, MD is Deputy Director of Residency Training, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Director of Neurology at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY. He is the author of the highly regarded Kaufman’s Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists, 7th Edition.

Dr. Kaufman earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago and completed training in internal medicine and neurology at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) hospitals.  During his residency, Dr. Kaufman originated the nationwide course, Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists, which he still directs. More than 25,000 psychiatry residents and students have attended the course, which has served as the basis for his classic textbook, Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists.

Dr. Kaufman has been a visiting professor at Ben Gurion University, Yale University, Pritzger / University of Chicago, and other American medical schools, and U.S. Naval Medical Centers, as well as a frequent lecturer at AECOM. He is a member of medical schools’ Leo M. Davidoff Society for excellence in teaching.

In addition to his educational role at AECOM hospitals, Dr. Kaufman, in partnership with Dr. Michael Swerdlow, founded the quintessential neurology faculty practice, K&S, at Montefiore hospital. K&S is the largest and longest surviving faculty practice in the institution. Dr. Kaufman also gives neurology consultations and attending rounds and supervises neurology clinics at Montefiore. In the clinics and faculty practice, Dr. Kaufman concentrates on the neurologic aspects of psychiatric illness and movement disorders. He works closely with the psychiatrists and, for botulinum treatment of certain dystonias, the neuromuscular group. Dr. Kaufman is the 2007 recipient of Montefiore’s Staff and Alumni award for outstanding service.