Neurology Training Programs - UT Southwestern

Parkland and University Hospitals are both JCAHO-certified primary stroke centers. US News and4Campus and FacilitiesWorld Report ranked UT Southwestern University hospitals in the top 30 for six specialties includingneurology and neurosurgery. Children’s Medical Center was ranked for eight specialties including pedi-NEUROLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMSThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas campus is located a few minutesnorth of downtown Dallas and includes UT Southwestern Medical School, GraduateSchool of Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, four hospitals, numerousoutpatient clinics and a large research complex. In addition to dedicated teaching and pioneeringresearch, our neurologists provide outstanding care to patients from Texas and neighboring states.UT Southwestern is the major tertiary referral center for neurological disorders in the region and theonly neurology residency program in North Texas.atric neurology.The Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center(VAMC) is a 289-bed hospital located south of downtownDallas. The Dallas VAMC serves a 30-countyarea with approximately 430,000 veterans. In additionto the hospital, the VAMC includes a 30-bedspinal cord injury unit and long-term care facilities.Residents provide inpatient neurology consultationTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRH),located one mile south of UT Southwestern, is recognizedinternationally for clinical care and researchin chronic neurological and orthopedic disorders.Neurology residents rotate at TSRH for a uniqueexperience with rare chronic neurological problems.Each year, the Carell-Krusen neuromuscular sympo-and outpatient clinics for spinal cord injury, MS, epi-sium provides a forum for residents to present and tolepsy, sleep disorders and general neurology.learn from national experts.Parkland Memorial Hospital is the primaryZale-Lipshy University Hospitalteaching facility at the medical center. This 968-is a 144-bed tertiary referral teachingbed, public, tax-supported hospital has earneda national reputation not only for patient carebut also for medical education and training.Neurology services are located on the 8 th floor ofthe hospital with a dedicated neurology-focusednursing staff. Every neurology resident conductsa weekly outpatient clinic at Parkland.hospital focused on the neurosciences(neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatryand physical medicine). Patientsbenefit from the latest advances inneurovascular surgery, interventionalneuroradiology, and neurological intensive care.St. Paul University Hospital is a 271-bedteaching hospital focused onmedical and surgical subspecialtieswith outstanding programs in solidResidents rotate in several outpatient settings including the James W. Aston Ambulatory Care Centerand child neurology clinics at Children’s Medical Center. The neuromuscular disorders section includesMDA-supported multidisciplinary specialty clinics forALS, muscular dystrophy and myasthenia gravis. Clinicsfor multiple sclerosis, sleep disorders, and movementdisorders provide neurology residents with additionalspecialized training. The Harold C. Simmons comprehensivecancer center at UT Southwestern is the onlyNCI-designated center in North Texas and includes amultidisciplinary neuro-oncology clinic.organ transplantation (heart, lung,kidney and pancreas) and heartfailure. Neurology residents provideinpatient consultations.Children’s Medical Center of Dallas (CMC)includes a 500-bed hospital andnumerous outpatient clinics forchildren from birth through age 18.CMC, one of the top ten children’shospitals nationwide, is home topediatric neurology.Neurophysiology services (EEG, EMG, autonomic,sleep, and intraoperative monitoring studies) and neurosonologyare provided by the neurology departmentfor the entire UT Southwestern medical center campus.Full neurodiagnostic imaging support including MRI, CT, angiography, myelography, SPECT and PETis available at all the clinical centers. Several specialized MR scanners (including high field 7T and MRtensor imaging) are available for research applications.UT Southwestern maintains close affiliations with several other affiliated hospitals in Dallas and FortWorth, including the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine (an international research centerfor exercise physiology and metabolic muscle disorders). The Neurology and Neurotherapeutics Departmentalso coordinates the neurology residency training program based at Seton hospitals in Austin, Texas.NEUROLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMS5