A Unique Clinical Training Environment
Residents train across three major health systems located on the University of Miami Medical Campus: Jackson Memorial Hospital, UHealth Tower, and the Bruce W. Carter Miami VA Medical Center. Together, these sites provide exposure to remarkably diverse patient populations and clinical settings.
Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) is a major tertiary referral center for South Florida, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. As a Level I Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center, Jackson offers extraordinary clinical volume and complexity, including both common neurologic disorders and rare presentations. Its mission to serve a large and diverse community provides residents with an unparalleled breadth of clinical experience.
UHealth Tower (UHT), located across from Jackson, provides experience in a university-based hospital setting and close integration with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, offering extensive neuro-oncology exposure, and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, providing outstanding opportunities in neuro-ophthalmology.
At the Miami VA Medical Center, residents care for a distinct veteran population through integrated inpatient and outpatient experiences.
Across these settings, residents train within programs recognized for advanced neurological care, including Comprehensive Stroke and Level IV Epilepsy programs and multiple neurological Centers of Excellence. The combination of three complementary health systems on one campus creates an unusually broad and comprehensive training environment.
Faculty, Mentorship, and Subspecialty Training
More than 100 faculty members in the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Neurology serve as clinicians, educators, researchers, and mentors. Every major neurological subspecialty is represented, giving residents access to nationally and internationally recognized faculty and a wide range of career mentors.
Residents receive structured exposure to vascular neurology, epilepsy, neuromuscular medicine, movement disorders, neuroimmunology, cognitive and behavioral neurology, headache, neuro-oncology, and neurocritical care, with additional opportunities in neuro-interventional radiology, sleep medicine, and neuro-ophthalmology.
Numerous fellowship programs across these disciplines allow residents to work closely with fellows and faculty while exploring potential career paths. Our goal is straightforward: graduates should leave the program prepared to confidently manage patients across the full spectrum of clinical neurology.
Research and Scholarship
Research and scientific discovery are integral to the department’s academic mission. Faculty lead clinical, translational, and basic science programs spanning stroke and cerebrovascular disease, neurodegeneration, movement disorders, neuromuscular disease, neuroimmunology, neurotrauma, genetics, mitochondrial biology, and other areas of neuroscience.
The department has a strong tradition of NIH-funded research and participates in national research collaborations, including NIH StrokeNet and NeuroNEXT. Residents are encouraged to participate in scholarly work and have access to faculty mentorship, clinical research programs, and selected institutional and federally supported research opportunities.
For residents considering careers as clinician-scientists, we offer a dedicated Resident Clinician Research Program providing structured mentorship and protected opportunities to develop research skills and pursue an academic research career.
Program Director
Associate Program Directors
Program Coordinator
Terry Crugnale
Email: tcrugnale@med.miami.edu