Megan E. Galvin, MS, FNP-BC

Dr. McBrian is an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Division of Child Neurology. Dr. McBrian grew up in New Jersey where she graduated with honors from Rutgers College, in New Brunswick. Subsequently she attended medical school at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University graduating in 2002. She completed a pediatric residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in 2004 at which time she returned to Columbia University to complete fellowships in Child Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology. She is a diplomate of the ABPN in child neurology. Dr. McBrian has a special interest in the treatment of epileptic encephalopathies of infancy and childhood, intractable epilepsy amenable to epilepsy surgery, and use of dietary therapy to manage intractable epilepsy.

Jessica Oppenheimer is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Division of Child Neurology. Currently, in collaboration with attending physicians, she manages pediatric patients with headache disorders and concussions in the outpatient setting, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, learning disabilities, and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder. She graduated from New York University where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, followed by a Master’s degree in Pediatric Nursing. She started her nursing career as a registered nurse on the Pediatric Cardiology-Neurology Unit at the NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital where she worked from 2007 to 2011, before moving on to work as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Blythedale Children’s Hospital on the Pediatric/Adolescent and Traumatic Brain Injury Units. In December 2014, she transitioned to her current role in Child Neurology. In addition to her clinical work, she is actively involved in pediatric headache research.

Angela M Nolan, MS, FNP-BC, is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner in the Division of Child Neurology. She graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a minor in Domestic Violence Prevention and Services. She later graduated from Dominican University New York with a Master of Science in Nursing. Before joining the Division of Neurology, Angela worked on the Neurology Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Morgan Stanley Childrens Hospital for four years. She is board-certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).