Jaspreet S Johal, MD

Dr. Jaspreet Singh Johal is originally from Toronto, Canada where his family still resides. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto with a BSc in Human Biology and Neuroscience. He then continued his studies in medicine at St. George’s University in Grenada, and went on to complete his residency training in Neurology at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Dr. Johal completed fellowship training in Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of Virginia and is glad to be closer to his family and to provide neurologic care to  Ithaca and the surrounding region. Outside of medicine, Dr. Johal enjoys traveling to new countries, following and participating in sports such as hockey, soccer, and basketball, and experimenting with new cuisines. Dr. Johal is excited to be in Ithaca with his fiancée, who is in residency at Cayuga Medical Center.

Education & Training

• Medical Education: St. George’s University School of Medicine (Grenada, West Indies)
• Internship  (Transitional Year): Lehigh Valley Health Network (Allentown, PA)
• Residency:  Lehigh Valley Health Network (Allentown, PA) – Neurology
• Fellowship:  University of Virginia Medical Center – (Charlottesville, VA) Clinical Neurophysiology/EMG

Certifications

• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology – Neurology

Memberships

• American Academy of Neurology

AREAS OF SPECIAL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

• General Neurology
• Cognitive Disorders
• Dementia
• Diabetic neuropathy
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Neuropathy
• Electrodiagnostics – EMG and NCS testing
• Headache
• Inflammatory myopathy
• Motor neuron disease
• Myasthenia gravis