Faculty
Felicia B. Axelrod, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Carl Seaman Family Professor for Dysautonomia Treatment and Research
Dr. Axelrod received her medical doctorate from the New York University Medical School in 1966. After a Pediatric residency at NYU-Bellevue Medical Center, she was boarded in this specialty.
When the need to identify a designated treating physician for FD was recognized, Dr. Axelrod accepted this newly created position and within the first year founded the Dysautonomia Treatment and Evaluation Center.
Dr. Axelrod was appointed as the first Carl Seaman Family Professor for Dysautonomia Treatment and Research in 1992. NYU School of Medicine awarded her the Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award in Health Science in 1998 and the Samuel Leidesdorf Alumni Award in 2003.
She was President of the American Autonomic Society in 2001 and 2002 and recognized by her peers within the Society as the David H. Streeten Awardee in 2005.
Horacio Kaufmann, M.D., F.A.A.N.
Professor of Neurology, Medicine and Pediatrics, Felicia B. Axelrod Professor of Dysautonomia Research
Internationally known for his research on autonomic disorders, Dr. Kaufmann joined NYU in 2007 to head the Dysautonomia Center.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He trained in neurology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York where he also completed his fellowship and was later an endowed Professor of Neurology. Dr. Kaufmann’s research focuses on neurologic abnormalities of blood pressure control.
His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the Dana Foundation, the National Organization of Rare Disorders and the Dysautonomia Foundation.
Dr. Kaufmann served as Chairman of the Autonomic Disorders Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology, and of the Section of the Autonomic Nervous System of the American Academy of Neurology.
He was president of the American Autonomic Society. He is the editor in chief of Clinical Autonomic Research.
Lucy Norcliffe Kaufmann, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Dr. Norcliffe-Kaufmann earned her Bachelor of Science with honors in biomedical sciences from the University of Durham and her Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Leeds in England.
Her doctoral thesis focused on cerebral blood flow, particularly the role of breathing changes in syncope.
She has been funded by the British Heart Foundation. Dr. Norcliffe-Kaufmann received the 2004 Streeten Award, and the 2005 Travel Fellow Award both from the American Autonomic Society.
Dr. Norcliffe-Kaufmann is a research scientist at the Dysautonomia Center working on the cardiovascular abnormalities of patients familial dysautonomia.
