A Welcome from the Chair
Welcome to the Department of Neurology of the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. Rochester’s neurology department has a long tradition as one of the premier neurology training programs in the United States. First established by Dr. Robert J. Joynt in 1966 - 1986 and then expanded between 1987 - 2007 by Dr. Robert C. Griggs. The Department now has over 130 faculty. This includes 90 full-time academic faculty, 21 faculty in other departments with secondary appointments in neurology, and 11 faculty at other institutions with adjunct appointments in neurology. In 2009, extramural research support totaled $31 million, and the department has consistently ranked within the top 6 nationally in NIH research funding. Yet rather than rest on its laurels, the department is again aggressively expanding further, with a total of 22 new faculty recruits anticipated over the next 5 years, as part of the University of Rochester’s strategic plan for 2009-13.
By way of introducing the department’s structure and competencies, and both its basic and clinical program highlights, please consider the following:
Our scope and structure
Neurology is composed of the following major divisions, each led by nationally and internationally prominent senior investigators. Virtually all of these specialty units enjoy national as well as regional referral bases.
- Alzheimers and Geriatric Neurology
- Clinical Trials Coordination Center
- Division of Cell and Gene Therapy
- Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
- Experimental Therapeutics Program
- General Neurology Unit
- HIV Neurology
- Movement Disorders
- Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology
- Neurological Education and Training
- Neuromuscular Disease Center
- Neuro-Oncology
- Palliative Care Neurology
- Pediatric Neurology
- Peripheral Neurology
- Sleep Neurology
- Stroke and Vascular Neurology
- URMC Neurology at Rochester General Hospital
