Neurohospitalist Medicine
The Penn Neurohospitalist Fellowship program intends to train future leaders in academic inpatient neurology. The program will immerse trainees in a diverse clinical, research, and educational environment to launch the next phase of their career. Aims include honing diagnostic reasoning related to acute diseases affecting both the peripheral and central nervous system, developing managerial skills with interdisciplinary teams, refining teaching skills, and exploring quality improvement in the inpatient service line. Fellows will engage in intensive mentorship with faculty within the neurohospitalist division and neurology department more broadly for feedback on clinical work, academic interests, and career goals.
Curriculum
The curriculum will be tailored to each fellow's interests with clinical and research electives, with opportunities including epilepsy, neuromuscular medicine, neuroimmunology, palliative care, or neurointerventional radiology. Universally, the year will include escalating responsibilities beginning with joining neurohospitalist attendings on service and graduating to attending independently by the end of the year. Service time is primarily on the HUP Ward and Neurology Consult services with supplemental educational experiences with neurovascular and neurocritical care services at HUP, as well as neurohospitalist services at Penn Presbyterian Hospital and Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes.
The year will be broken up into one and two week blocks and include roughly:
• 4 months primary neurology inpatient service, including stroke and neurointensive care
• 5 months consultative neurology including stroke
• 2 months of elective
• 1 month of vacation
Didactics
Format will vary and include one-on-one sessions with neurohospitalist attendings, interdisciplinary fellow education lunch lectures, division meetings, national conferences.
Application Process
Candidates must be board eligible and have a license to practice in the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey by the start date of the fellowship.
Applications for the July 2024-June 2025 Neurohospitalist Fellowship position will be accepted from fall 2023 through January 15, 2024. To apply, please send a personal statement, curriculum vitae, and two to three recommendation letters to Dr. Douglas. Interviews will be held in January-March 2024.
Send applications to:
Anne Douglas, M.D.
Program Director
3400 Spruce Street, 3 West Gates Bldg.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Neurohospitalist Faculty
Anne Douglas, MD
Program Director
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Raymond Price, MD
Director, Neurology Residency
Professor of Clinical Neurology
Christina Alexandra Blum, MD
Director of Stroke Services, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology
Daniel Cristancho, MD, MBE
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Kelley Humbert, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Paul Novello, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Kara Shetler, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Laura Stein, MD, MS, Ed.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Matthew Broderick, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Denise Jiali Xu, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
