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Dr. Jessica Lee offers expertise on preventing and recognizing a stroke

 

Dr. Lee answers three questions about stroke in the Fall 2011 edition of UT Southwestern MED.

Neurology department hosts stroke symposium for acute stroke first responders

 

UT Southwestern's Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics hosted a stroke symposium on October 22 to educate first responders about acute stroke.

Dr. Rong Zhang accepts secondary appointment in Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics

 

Dr. Rong Zhang whose research focuses on the connection between exercise and brain function joins the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics as an Associate Professor.

Dr. Steven Warach, NIH neurologist chosen to lead Seton/UT Southwestern Clinical Institute

 

Neurologist and senior investigator for the National Institutes of Health joins UT Southwestern.

Nobel Prize Winner Trained in
UT Southwestern's
Department of Neurology

 

Dr. Bruce A. Beutler, the new Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at UT Southwestern Medical Center became the fifth Nobel Laureate at UT Southwestern Monday when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Drs. Shilpa Chitnis and Richard Dewey co-author movement disorders handbook

 

Simply titled, Movement Disorders, the handbook is part of the Oxford American Neurology Library and brings together contributions from internationally known movement disorders experts.

Alzheimer's Disease Center awarded 5-year, $9 million grant

 

The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health has renewed the Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) grant for another five years. The NIH grant award is for $9 million and is the fifth consecutive grant renewal for the ADC dating back t

New neurology residents start training; second-years experience revamped introductory course

 

Seven adult and five pediatric neurology residents started their training in UT Southwestern's Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics this summer while second years started their training a month early for a newly revamped introduction to neurology

Neurology resident William Renthal, M.D., Ph.D. awarded AAN Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology

 

Reared by a biochemist and a psychiatrist, William Renthal, M.D., Ph.D., had but one place to go immediately after graduation from high school in San Antonio: Wall Street. Wall Street?

Movement disorders specialist, Dr. Pravin Khemani, joins department

 

A former UT Southwestern resident and fellow has returned to the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics to take a position on the faculty.