She is board certified in Child Neurology as well as in the subspecialties of Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine. Dr. Mast received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from The Ohio State University where she completed an NIMH fellow ship in developmental psychobiology. She trained in pediatrics and completed her pediatric neurology fellowship at The New York Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center. She remained there as an assistant professor in Neurology and Pediatrics where she was a member of the division of Neurophysiology and the Epilepsy Center and was the neurologist for the neonatal ICU.