Neurology
The Department of Neurology was founded in 1967. William A. Sibley, MD, was Head of the Department for the first 15 years, during which time the department developed a national reputation for excellence in resident and medical student education, patient care, and research. The department entered a new period of growth in 1986, when Alan B. Rubens, MD, assumed the position as Head of the Department. New faculty members with expertise in various clinical and research areas of Neurology joined the department in the ensuing years. The most recent phase of development began in July, 1995, when Bruce M. Coull, MD, became the new Head of the Department. Dr. Coull's vision is to maintain the best of academic neurology in terms of clinical care, teaching, and research, while adjusting these goals in line with the rapidly changing face of medicine.
The Department has an active training program (Neurology Residency and Fellowship Programs). Our faculty is also actively involved in the education of students of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, both in the basic and clinical sciences (including the mandatory clinical clerkship in neurology). A number of our faculty have won prestigious teaching awards.
Inpatient services are rendered on the Neurology Wards at University Medical Center, the Tucson VA Medical Center, University Physicians Kino Hospital, and at Tucson Medical Center. Outpatient clinics cover all areas of general neurology, as well as specialty areas such as Behavioral Neuroscience and Alzheimer's, Epilepsy, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis, Sleep Disorders, Stroke, and Vertigo & Ataxia.
Members of the Department are actively involved in research, both basic and applied. Our clinical research office is very active and currently is carrying out clinical trials on medications and other treatments for Alzheimer's Disease, Epilepsy, Migraine, and Multiple Sclerosis. Other ongoing clinical trials involve diagnostic/treatment interventions for Stroke.
A number of our faculty have been named in either The Best Doctors in America, 2nd Edition, S Naifeh and GW Smith (eds.), 1994-1995 or The Best Doctors in America, Pacific Region, S Naifeh and GW Smith (eds.), 1996-1997:
- Behavioral Neurology - Dr. Geoffrey Ahern
- Demyelinating Disease - Dr. William Sibley
- Epilepsy - Dr. David Labiner
- Stroke - Dr. Bruce Coull
Department Head:
Bruce M. Coull, MD
Contact information:
Arizona Health Sciences Center
1501 N. Campbell Avenue
PO Box 245023
Tucson, Arizona 85724
Tel: 520/626-6568
Fax: 520/626-2111 |
