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The Department of Neurology at the University of Colorado School of
Medicine is one
of the most exciting academic Departments in the country.
Long known for our
excellence in clinical neurology, devotion to patient care,
and commitment to clinical
and basic neuroscience research, the Department constantly
reevaluates and attempts
to improve its clinical services, educational program and
research activities.
The Department is a regional referral center that evaluates
and treats people who live
in the entire Rocky Mountain area as well as Colorado. We
service four hospitals that
care for tertiary referral patients, as well as those with
common neurological disorders.
Our outpatient clinic provides care to patients with general
neurological disorders as
well in the subspecialties of neuro-ophthalmology, movement
disorders, behavioral
neurology, neuro-oncology, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy,
neuromuscular disease,
nervous system infections and stroke.
The Residency Program exposes our house officers to various
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subacute and chronic neurological disease. Residents work
closely with the full-time
faculty who train them to become excellent clinical
neurologists. Each faculty member
is also assigned to be a resident mentor, thus providing
for a close relationship that
helps residents adjust to, and plan for, a career in
Neurology. For those who decide
to take further training as clinical or basic neuroscience
fellows, the faculty and
Chairman help them plan a future in clinical or academic
medicine.
The Department of Neurology is particularly known
internationally for its
investigations in viral and immunological disease of the
nervous system. No
Department of neurology in the world has as many
individuals studying infectious
disease in the human nervous system. More than 30 MDs,
PhDs, graduate students
and professional research assistants devote their total
effort to identify an antigen(s)
in multiple sclerosis, to investigate the molecular
pathogenesis of herpesvirus latency
in the human nervous system, and to determine the
mechanism of virus-induced
programmed cell death (apoptosis).
Donald
H. Gilden, M.D.
Louise Baum Professor and Chairman
Department of Neurology
University of Colorado School of Medicine
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