Chair Welcome
Thank you for your interest in the Neurology Residency Program at the University of Rochester. The University of Rochester Medical Center has a long tradition of excellence in education, patient care, and research. The School of Medicine and Dentistry was founded in 1920 as one of the first steps in the plan of Mr. Abraham Flexner and his associates on the General Education Board to create a number of outstanding university medical schools to serve as models for existing schools and for new schools that would be developed in later years. Mr. George Eastman of Rochester and the General Education Board provided the University with funds to establish and endow the school. At the same time, the children of Henry A. and Helen Griffith Strong made another large gift which made possible the development of a University hospital, Strong Memorial Hospital, an integral part of the school. The major divisions and programs in the Department include: The Neuromuscular Disease Center, Behavioral Neurology, the Strong Epilepsy Program, the Stroke Program, Movement and Inherited Neurological Disorders, Child Neurology, Neuroimmunology (MS), Sensory Motor Neurology, the Clinical Trials Coordination Center, the Experimental Therapeutics Program, the Alzheimer's Disease Center, and the Molecular Medicine and Cellular and Gene Therapy Program. Department programs are housed in a 6,200 NSF modern office and data analysis space and over 23,000 NSF of modernized laboratory space. In the last several years, two research buildings were opened at the Medical Center to house the Rochester Institute of Biological Sciences (240,000 square feet). Department neuroscientist, Steven Goldman, M.D., is Director of the Neurology Department's Molecular Medicine and Cellular and Gene Therapy Program, and is in the Center for Aging and Developmental Biology. Over 20 other neuroscientists are in this new facility. The 10 Department subspecialty units all have major clinical programs with a regional or national/international referral base. Each unit has access to clinical space including a 5,000 NSF outpatient facility of the Neurology Department, which has 14 examining rooms and adjacent clinical electrophysiology laboratories. In addition, there are four examination rooms dedicated to clinical trials and housed within the Clinical Trials Coordination Center. The inpatient and outpatient facilities of the General Clinical Research Center are available. The Neurology Department is the major institutional user of GCRC research space. The University of Rochester Department of Neurology has developed steadily since the PI (Griggs) assumed the Chair in 1986 and has grown from 22 to over 90 full-time faculty members. In 2003, extramural research support totaled approximately $28 million, including $16 million of federal funding. Additional major strength in neuroscience is present in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Ophthalmology, Pharmacology and Physiology, The Center for Visual Science, and the Center for Aging and Developmental Biology. Robert C. Griggs, M.D.
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