Neurology

Education and Training

Neurology Fellowship Programs

Experimental Therapeutics of Neurological Disorders

Important Programs and Facilities

• Experimental Therapeutics Unit: A collaborative program of Pharmacology and Physiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, Biostatistics, and other departments under the leadership of Ira Shoulson, M.D., Louis C. Lasagna Professor in Experimental Therapeutics.
  
  
• Strong Epilepsy Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center: Funded by New York State, federal and private support, this program brings state-of-the-art medical and surgical treatment to patients with epilepsy. Rochester is the coordinating center for a multicenter clinical trial assessing the affectiveness of early surgery for intractable epilepsy.
  
  
• A Major Department Iniative in the Center for Translational Neuromedicine: The Division of Cell and Gene Therapy and Division of Glial Diseases and Therapeutics, directed by Steven Goldman, M.D., Ph.D. is exploiting neuronal and oligodendrocyte progenitor cells to develop new treatment strategies for different disease targets.
  
  
• Headquarters and Coordinating Centers for Multi-Center Therapeutic Trials: Trials in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Tourette's Syndrome, dystonia, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, peripheral neuropathy, Duchenne dystrophy, facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, inclusion body myositis, myotonic dystrophy, periodic paralysis, episodic ataxia, AIDS dementia and attention deficit disorder.
  
  
• Clinical Research Center: Neurology has major involvement in the NIH-funded Clinical Research Center. Richard T. Moxley, III, M.D. is Associate Director. This facility accommodates both inpatient and outpatient clinical studies.
  
  
• Movement and Inherited Neurologic Disorders (MIND) and Clinical Trials Coordination Center (CTCC): The MIND Unit is Directed by Bernard Ravina, M.D., MSCE. The CTCC is directed by Karl Kieburtz, M.D., MPH, with Steven Schwid, M.D. and Bernard Ravina, M.D., MSCE as Associate Directors. The Muscle Study Group (MSG) Coordination Center directed by Rabi Tawil, M.D. These provide the facilities and support for the conduct of major multi-center clinical trials, sponsored by NIH, FDA, many foundations and the pharmaceutical industry.
  
  
• Center Grants Funded by NINDS (2003-2008):
  • Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center
    Principal Investigator: Richard T. Moxley, III, M.D.
    
  • Clinical Investigation of Neurological Channelopathies
    Principal Investigator: Robert C. Griggs, M.D.
    
    

• Clinical and Translational Science Award: The 2006 award to the University of Rochester of a $40.1 million Clinical and Translational Science Award.
  
  
• Other:
  • Major programs in health services research with faculty who maintain joint appointments in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine.
  • Major interactions with the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology including full-time faculty joint appointments (Michael McDermott, Ph.D. and Christopher Beck, Ph.D.) and major computer and programming resources.