Publications:26
About Me
Dr. Festa is the Director of Neuropsychology in the Department of Neurology at the Barbara and Maurice Deane Center for Wellness and Cognitive Health and is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her research has focused on neurovascular neuropsychology, neuropsychological functioning in heart failure, the neurocognitive and psychological aspects of medical disorders, as well as the development of neuropsychological testing measures. She has been a neuropsychologist researcher on various programs funded by industry and the National Institutes of Health. She is currently collaborating with Mount Sinai researchers in examining the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of Covid-19 infection.
Dr. Festa’s clinical interest is in identifying the cognitive, behavioral, and affective sequelae of medical illnesses. She evaluates and develops treatment plans for patients with post-Covid-19 cognitive dysfunction, many referred from Mount Sinai’s Center for Post-Covid Care. Her clinical practice focuses on adult neuropsychological assessment in English-fluent patients with a broad range of cognitive problems including memory disorders, dementias, autoimmune disorders, brain tumors, cerebrovascular disease and stroke, postconcussion syndrome, infectious diseases, organ failure, and other medical/ neurological disorders.
Dr. Festa provides neuropsychological assessment services to adults age 17 and older. Dr. Festa offers telemedicine appointments when appropriate. Please call her office to schedule a video visit.
Dr. Festa is registered to provide telehealth services in Florida and Pennsylvania and is licensed in New York and New Jersey.
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Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Neurology
Research Topics
Cognitive Neurology
Clinical Focus
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Aphasia
- Brain Tumors
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Cognitive or Memory Impairment / Dementia
- Concussion
- Dementia
- Frontal Lobe Dementia
- Lewy Body Disease
- Memory Disorder
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Neuropsychological testing
- Postconcussion Syndrome
- Stroke
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Vascular Dementia
Research
Dr. Festa's research has focused on neurovascular neuropsychology, the effects of heart failure on cognitive functioning, neurocognition in Moyamoya disease, the neurocognitive and psychological aspects of medical disorders, as well as the development of neuropsychological testing measures.
Publications
Selected Publications
- Neuropsychiatric complications of coronavirus disease 2019: Mount Sinai Health System cohort study. Kapil Gururangan, Veronica J. Peschansky, Grace Van Hyfte, Parul Agarwal, Leah J. Blank, Brian Mathew, Jonathan Goldstein, Churl Su Kwon, Louise McCarthy, Ariella Cohen, Andy Ho Wing Chan, Pojen Deng, Mandip Dhamoon, Eveline Gutzwiller, Qing Hao, Celestine He, Britany Klenofsky, Hernan Nicolas Lemus, Lara Marcuse, Allison Navis, Wilson D. Heredia Nunez, Mallory N. Luckey, Emily M. Schorr, Anuradha Singh, Gabriela B. Tantillo, Claire Ufongene, James J. Young, Priti Balchandani, Joanne R. Festa, Georges Naasan, Alexander W. Charney, Girish N. Nadkarni, Nathalie Jetté. Journal of Neurology
- Greater executive dysfunction in patients post-COVID-19 compared to those not infected. Jacqueline H. Becker, Jenny J. Lin, Akosua Twumasi, Ruchir Goswami, Fernando Carnavali, Kimberly Stone, Monica Rivera-Mindt, Minal S. Kale, Georges Naasan, Joanne R. Festa, Juan P. Wisnivesky. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
- In-hospital outcomes in patients with and without epilepsy diagnosed with COVID-19—A cohort study. Claire Ufongene, Grace Van Hyfte, Parul Agarwal, Leah J. Blank, Jonathan Goldstein, Brian Mathew, Jung Yi Lin, Allison Navis, Louise McCarthy, Kapil Gururangan, Veronica Peschansky, Churl Su Kwon, Ariella Cohen, Andy Ho Wing Chan, Mandip Dhamoon, Pojen Deng, Eveline M. Gutzwiller, Qing Hao, Celestine He, Wilson D. Heredia Nunez, Britany Klenofsky, Hernan Nicolas Lemus, Lara Marcuse, Mallory Roberts, Emily M. Schorr, Anuradha Singh, Gabriela Tantillo, James Young, Priti Balchandani, Joanne Festa, Georges Naasan, Alexander Charney, Girish Nadkarni, Nathalie Jetté. Epilepsia
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