Department of Neurology
The Department of Neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine is composed physicians who specialize in: Neuromuscular Disease, Epilepsy, Pediatric Neurology, Stroke, Neuropsychology, Neurosonology, and Neurorehabilitation.
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 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 has the state's first MEG Center.
The Inpatient Service is composed of two teams-the Stroke Service and the General Service-each with an attending physician, a neurology resident, a medical house officer, and five to six medical students. Each service averages 8-12 patients with a huge variety of neurological conditions. The consult team will follow approximately 20 patients at a time. We have an extensive Outpatient Neurologic facility where we see over 15,000 patients with neurologic disorders each year. 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, sleep, 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 3rd floor of Meads Hall while the Neurology Outpatient Clinic is on the 4th floor of the Richard Janeway Clinical Sciences Tower.
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