Overview
Dr. Gomes is a board-certified neuroradiologist with specific clinical and research interests in the neuroimaging of children and patients with epilepsy. He is an associate professor of radiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Gomes received his MD, as well as a PhD in neuroscience, through the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed a medical internship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, followed by diagnostic radiology residency and neuroradiology fellowship training at Montefiore Medical Center. He has previously served as assistant professor of radiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center and associate professor of radiology at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center.
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Functional Brain Mapping
- Pediatric Neuroradiology
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor of Radiology at CUMC
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital
Gender
- Male
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Insurance Accepted
Aetna
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- EPO
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- NYP Employee Plan
- NY Signature
- POS
- PPO
- Student Health
Cigna
- EPO
- Great West (National)
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
Emblem/GHI
- Medicare Managed Care
- PPO
Emblem/HIP
- ConnectiCare
- EPO
- Essential Plan
- HMO
- Medicaid Managed Care
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
- Select Care (Exchange)
- Vytra
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- EPO
- HMO
- PPO
Local 1199
- Local 1199
MagnaCare (National)
- MagnaCare
Medicare
- Railroad
- Traditional Medicare
Multiplan
- Multiplan
Oxford Health Plans
- Freedom
- Liberty
RiverSpring
- Special Needs
UnitedHealthcare
- Compass (Exchange)
- Empire Plan
- HMO
- Medicare Managed Care
- POS
- PPO
Research
Selected Publications
Gulko, E, Overby, P, Ali, S, Mehta, H, Al-Mufti, F, Gomes, W. (2020) Vessel Wall Enhancement and Focal Cerebral Arteriopathy in a Pediatric Patient with Acute Infarct and COVID-19 Infection. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 41(12) 2348-2350.
Goenka, A, Yozawitz, E, Gomes, WA and Nafday, SM. (2019) Selective head versus whole body cooling treatment of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: comparison of EEG and MR imaging findings. American Journal of Perinatology. 37(12) 1264-1270
McClelland, AC, Gomes, WA,. Shinnar, S, Hesdorffer, DC, Bagiella, E, Lewis, DV, Bello, JA, Chan, S, MacFall, J, Chen, M, Pellock, JM, Nordli Jr, DR, Frank, LM, Moshe, S, Shinnar, RC, Sun, S for the FEBSTAT Study Team. (2016) Quantitative evaluation of medial temporal lobe morphology in children with febrile status epilepticus: Results of the FEBSTAT study. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 37(12):2356-2362
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov