Department of Neurology
Room 1400 • Phone: 419.383.3760 • utmc.webmaster@utoledo.edu
Our Clinics
Neurology Clinic
The clinic has a large referral base and manages patients with a wide range of neurological problems. The Neurology Clinic operates Monday through Friday. Residents spend approximately 3 months each year during the three year residency working full time in the Neurology Clinic.
General Neurology Clinic
General Neurology clinic provides care to patients with a broad spectrum of neurological problems both common and rare.
Residents Weekly Continuity of Care Clinic
Continuing care is provided for patients including those seen in the inpatient and consultative services.
Headache Clinic
Patients referred to the Headache Clinic include those with migraine, cluster headaches, chronic refractory head pain. The patients may be seen on routine visits or come into the clinic for acute treatment of headache with intramuscular and intravenous therapies.
Gretchen Tietjen, M.D.
Cerebrovascular Disorders Clinic
Patients with a wide variety of cerebrovascular disorders are managed in this clinic. Inpatient consultations are also provided. Eligible patients are entered into clinical trials.
Gretchen Tietjen, M.D.
Epilepsy Clinic
The Epilepsy Clinic emphasizes evaluation and management of patients with refractory seizures. Diagnostic services include EEG and long term intensive video EEG monitoring. Therapeutic options include epilepsy surgery and experimental drug trials
Imran Ali, M.D. and L. John Greenfield, Jr.,M.D.,Ph.D.
Multiple Sclerosis Clinic
Comprehensive care of patients with multiple sclerosis in order to provide the best possivel quality of life.
B. Moreau Koffman, M.D., Ph.D.
Neuromuscular Clinic
Neuromuscular Clinic provides care for patients with a wide variety of neuromuscular disorders including demyelinating neuropathies, myasthenia gravis, motor neuron disease, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Lou Gehrig's disease, muscular dystrophy and inflammatory myopathy. Patients in clinic may undergo diagnostic testing with nerve conduction studies and electromyography.
Noor Pirzada, M.D. and B. Moreau Koffman, M.D., Ph.D.
Botulinum Toxin Clinic
The botox clinic provides botulinum toxin therapy for various focal movement disorders. Examples of such movement disorders include spasmodic torticollis, blepharospasm, and writer's cramp. Injections are performed under EMG guidance. Patients who do not respond to botulinum toxin therapy or who become refractory tobotulinum toxin are treated with injections of phenol.
Noor Pirzada, M.D
Parkinson's Disease Clinic
The Parkinson's Disease clinic provides optimal medical and surgical options to patients at all stages of the disease process.
Lawrence W. Elmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Movement Disorders Clinic
Patients evaluated include those with Huntington's Disease, Essential and Familial Tremor, Tourette's Syndrome, Parkinsonian syndromes and Dystonic disorders.
Lawrence W. Elmer, M.D., Ph.D.