About the Department of Neurology
Welcome from the Department Chair
Welcome to the Department of Neurology at University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. Since our founding in 1911, our department has a rich history of providing extraordinary care to patients with neurological conditions throughout the mid-south. We offer outstanding training the next generation of physicians and neurologists, using comprehensive curriculum coupled with a nurturing environment. We push to advance neuroscience using basic, translational, and clinical research to find groundbreaking discoveries. We also focus on outreach programs effecting both regional and global outreach.
We offer clinical care of the highest quality to patients with neurological disease by working with multiple hospital partners in the Memphis metropolitan (area of 1.3 million people), as well as throughout the state of Tennessee and tri-state area. We provide direct care services and consultations ranging from general neurology to all different subspecialty areas. We see patients referred to us by primary care physicians and other medical specialists, as well as, by direct patient contact. Our faculty provides comprehensive stroke care and cutting edge neurocritical care at Methodist University Hospital and Baptist Hospital. We also provide state of art epilepsy care at Baptist Hospital where the only regional adult Epilepsy Monitoring Unit is located. We support general neurology inpatient consultative service at Baptist Hospital, Regional One hospital (housing a world renown level 1 trauma center and complicated high risk obstetrics department), and VA hospital. We also support ambulatory care at all three affiliated hospitals and Semmes Murphey clinic. Memphis is the healthcare hub of the Mid-South with world renowned hospitals and specialty programs to enrich our educational environment beyond the neurology and neuroscience. We are excited to be at the center of it.
In addition, we provide a rigorous, yet nurturing learning environment to next generation physicians and neurologists. Our clinical faculty provides all-encompassing and innovative education to our medical students (pre-clinical years to clerkship rotation), Neurology residents, and fellows. Many of our faculty and residents are members of Academy of Master Educators at UTHSC. Our basic and clinician scientist faculty are advancing science and medicine using innovative research. Our faculty research focuses on many different aspects of neurology such as genetic discoveries and innovative clinical trials. Our faculty have been instrumental to projects and trials funded by NIH, various medical foundations, and the medical industry. Also, our faculty mentors students, post-doctoral scientists, residents, and fellows in their research projects. These efforts led to many novel discoveries and revolutionary treatments.
We strive to provide community outreach program from local minority groups to international/global underserved areas. Our faculty, students, and trainees participate in multiple patient outreach and education opportunities as well as clinical care programs. Also, our faculty organizes and educates international physicians from underserved countries in diagnostic and treatment of stroke and other neurovascular conditions.
Currently our department is expanding into more subspecialties and educational program. We are re-structuring to meet the current and future demands by improving access to exceptional neurological care to all patients in need. It is an exciting time to be part of UTHSC Neurology and to work with such a dedicated, collaborative, and outstanding team.
Thank you for visiting our department and UTHSC College of Medicine. Please feel free to reach out to me or any member of our leadership and administrative team with questions. We look forward to seeing you in vibrant Memphis!
Hae Won Shin, MD
UTHSC Chair of the Neurology and Semmes Murphey Professor