Department of Neurology
The Neurology Department at Wake Forest University School of Medicine is composed of 27 M.D. faculty members. Their names and areas of expertise are listed elsewhere. We have singular expertise in stroke, neuromuscular disease, epilepsy, pediatric neurology, movement disorders, neuro-ophthalmology, and neuro-rehabilitation. There are a total of 122 members of the entire Department including: 27 M.D. faculty, 7 Ph.D. faculty, 1 administrative faculty, 5 research faculty, 28 academic staff, 28 clinical staff, 9 research staff, 7 neuropsychology staff, 13 house officers, and 5 clinical fellows.
Clinical care activities include a large Inpatient Neurology Service at The North Carolina Baptist Hospitals, Inc. We have a separate neurologic Acute Stroke Unit and an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. The Inpatient Neurology Service is relocated in the newly constructed Ardmore Tower. We have superlative facilities in our Diagnostic Neurology laboratory such as EEG, video EEG, sleep studies, electromyography (EMG), and nerve conduction studies. The Medical Center recently opened the state's first MEG Center There will be further description of the laboratory facilities in the Section descriptions. Our sections include: Neuromuscular Disease, Epilepsy, Pediatric Neurology, Stroke, Neuropsychology, Neurosonology, and Neurorehabilitation.
The Inpatient Service is composed of two teams, each with an attending physician, a neurology resident, a medical houseofficer, and five to six medical students. Each service averages fifteen to twenty patients with a huge variety of neurological conditions. We have an extensive outpatient neurologic facility where we see over 15,000 patients with neurologic disorders each year. Specialists in the various areas such as neurobehavior, movement disorders, neuromuscular disease, neuro-ophthalmology, stroke, and epilepsy see these patients and each of the faculty is also an excellent general clinical neurologist. We provide a special triage service where urgent patients can be seen within twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
Third year medical students rotate for one month on the neurology service and many of them elect to pursue a career in neurology. A number of students from The Wake Forest University School of Medicine and from other university medical centers pursue elective rotations in our Neurology department during their fourth year. Such students include those from other countries such as Germany, India, Finland, and Italy.
We also have an extensive Fellowship Program offering post-neurology residency graduate training in electromyography/neuromuscular disorders, electroencephalography/epilepsy, pediatric neurology, stroke, and neurosonology-ultrasound of the extra- and intracranial cerebral circulation. Our ultrasound laboratory is one of the finest in the world.
The academic offices of the Department of Neurology are located on the third floor of Meads Hall while the Neurology Outpatient Clinic is on the fourth floor of the Clinical Sciences Building.
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