Dr. Nirenberg pursued her undergraduate education at Yale University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in English Literature. She was subsequently awarded a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Her doctoral research included investigation of the neuroanatomy of the dopamine-containing neurons that are affected in Parkinson's disease and related disorders. She earned her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical School, where she received awards for the highest achievement in the graduating class in both Medicine and Pediatrics.
After medical school, Dr. Nirenberg completed a residency in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where she received a prize for excellence in teaching. She then completed a three-year fellowship in Movement Disorders at the Columbia University Center for Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders. She is currently on faculty at Weill Cornell as an Assistant Professor of Neurology and the Associate Director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Institute.
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