On behalf of the Department of Neurology, congratulations to Drs. Tirisham Gyang, Giridhar Kalamangalam, and Matthew Farrer for receiving endowed professorships at the University of Florida. The department is incredibly fortunate to have such esteemed faculty and will continue to reach greater heights! Farrer was installed to the Lauren and…
Please join us in congratulating our neurology faculty member Chris Robinson! Dr. Robinson is a winner of 2020 College of Medicine Exemplary Teacher awards! Dr. Robinson has shown a commitment to the education of medical students, residents, and fellows, both informally during teaching rounds and also in his individuals accomplishments!…
Congratulations Dr. Kenneth Heilman on the publication of “Age-related changes in the allocation of spatially directed focal attention,” which was published in the October issue of Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition. ABSTRACT Objectives: Leftward deviation on a horizontal line bisection test (pseudoneglect) might be induced by right hemispheric dominance for mediating…
Please join us in congratulating our neurology faculty member Addie Patterson! Dr. Patterson is a winner of 2020 College of Medicine Exemplary Teacher awards! Dr. Patterson has shown a commitment to the education of medical students, residents, and fellows, both informally during teaching rounds and also in her individuals accomplishments!…
Congratulations Drs. ParunyouJulayanont, Nikolaus R.McFarland, and Kenneth M.Heilman on the publication of “Mild cognitive impairment and dementia in motor manifest Huntington’s disease: Classification and prevalence,” which was published in the October issue of …
Please join us in congratulating our neurology faculty member Aaron Carlson! Dr. Carlson is a winner of 2020 College of Medicine Exemplary Teacher awards! Dr. Carlson has shown a commitment to the education of medical students, residents, and fellows, both informally during teaching rounds and also in his individuals accomplishments!…
Please join us in congratulating our neurology faculty member Marc-Alain Babi! Dr. Babi is a winner of 2020 College of Medicine Exemplary Teacher awards! Dr. Babi has shown a commitment to the education of medical students, residents, and fellows, both informally during teaching rounds and also in his individuals accomplishments!…
Congratulations Drs. Michael Okun, Kelly Foote, Jamie Roper, Chris Hass, Leili Shahgholi, Aparna Wagle Shukla, and Leonardo Almedia on the publication of “Square Biphasic Pulse Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: The BiP-PD Study,” which was published in the latest edition of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Background Conventional Parkinson’s…
We are thrilled to announce that our amazing residency coordinator, Jennifer Shipley, has been awarded the 2020 Debra L. Dooley Program Coordinator Excellence Award from the ACGME! This national award is given to only five awardees annually from among the many thousands of ACGME coordinators and programs. It recognizes coordinators with the…
Congratulations Dana Szeles and Dr. Kenneth Heilman on the publication of “Improved Accuracy on Lateralized Spatial Judgments in Healthy Aging,” in the September issue of the Journal of International Neuropsychological Society. Abstract Objectives:Healthy young adults often demonstrate a leftward spatial bias called “pseudoneglect” which often diminishes with aging.
