Hal Blumenfeld MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology and of Neurosurgery; Director, Yale Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC)

Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): NeuroscienceInterdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Yale Medical Group
Neurobiology: Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance
Neurology: Epilepsy and Neurophysiology | Blumenfeld Lab
Neurosurgery: Epilepsy Program
Biography
Dr. Blumenfeld's clinical and research work focuses on epilepsy, cognition and brain imaging. He directs Yale's Clinical Neuroscience Imaging Center (CNIC), a new multi-disciplinary core facility for innovative study and treatment of brain disorders. Teaching activities include a textbook titled Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases, Sinauer Assoc., Publ. 2002, 2010.Education
- M.D., Columbia University , 1990
- Ph.D., Columbia University , 1992
Selected Publication
- Blumenfeld H. (2012). Impaired consciousness in epilepsy. The Lancet Neurology, 11: 814–826.
Latest Honor and Recognition
- The Francis Gilman Blake Award, Yale University, School of Medicine(2007)
Articles

Autumn 2012
New research program gives incoming students a head start
Early this year, within days of receiving their acceptance letters from the School of Medicine, members of the Class of...

Autumn 2010
Neuroanatomy Through Clinical Cases, 2nd ed.
by Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurology, neurobiology, and neurosurgery (Sinauer...

Autumn 2007
Becca R. Levy, Ph.D., Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., Ph.D.
Two Yale scientists have received Investigator Awards from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research...

Summer 2005
Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., FW ’98
Hal Blumenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., FW ’98, assistant professor of neurology, neurobiology and neurosurgery, has received the...

Autumn 2007
From the inner city to Yale and neurosurgery
An elite neurosurgeon born in crushing poverty, Benjamin Carson, M.D., told the Class of 2007 how learning transformed...



