Louis H. Weimer, MD

Dr. Louis H. Weimer is an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology at Columbia University. A graduate of Emory School of Medicine, he completed residency training in Neurology at the The Neurological Institute of New York, The New York-Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center, serving as chief resident in his final year. Dr. Weimer completed a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular disease also at Columbia.

Dr. Weimer is a full time member of the EMG laboratory and additionally directs the Clinical autonomic laboratory. His clinical and research interests include testing of autonomic and small nerve fiber function, dysautonomia, small fiber neuropathy, neurologic causes of syncope, and autonomic failure syndromes. Other special interests include neuropathy from medications and toxins, entrapment neuropathies, and the myopathy of critical illness. He also coordinates the resident training in neuromuscular disease and trains fellows in clinical neurophysiology.

Dr. Weimer is the current chairman of the alternative media education committee and member of the training program committee for the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and is on the national medical advisory board for the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association and frequent oral board examiner for the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He has written numerous papers, book chapters, and review articles and reviews papers for several medical journals.

In addition to patient testing, Dr. Weimer sees selective patients in consultation, in most instances patients with various forms of autonomic dysfunction.

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