The Department of Neurology

The Department of Neurology provides inpatient service and manages four outpatient ambulatory clinics in addition to cross-department consultation(s) in the following areas:

• Adult and adolescent neurology
• EEG (electroencephalogram)
• Video-EEG monitoring
• EMG (electromyogram)
• NCV (nerve conduction velocity)
• Ambulatory EEG
• Carotid Ultrasound
• TCD (transcranial Doppler)

• Roger Weir, MD
  

  Professor & Chair Department of Neurology

  Specialties: Nuerology, Psychiatry
• 
  Mosunmola Oyawusi, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Clerkship Director Neurology

  Specialties: Stroke, Neurodegeneratvie disorders
• 
  Safia Mohamud, MD
  

  Assistant Professor Department of Neurology

  Specialties: Neurology, Epilepsy, Stroke, Migraines

About Us

The Department of Neurology strives for excellence in the fields of education, service and research. As the only neurology residency training program in an institution dedicated to the training of minorities, it takes its role in promoting the understanding of neurological disorders that primarily affect the African-American population and minorities seriously.

It plays a major role in stimulating the interest of students in the neurosciences, where minorities in research and leadership roles, are seriously lacking. It strives to bridge the gap in specialized care given to minority population by training compassionate, caring and culturally sensitive neurologists servicing all populations.

All clinical faculty supervise resident research and are involved in areas of clinical research, some funded and some unfunded.

Our Physicians

Services

The department has consistently participated in the minority scholarship program established for medical students, by Aventis Pharmaceuticals, for promoting minority interest in the field of academic neurology, and conducted by the Academy of Neurology Education and Research Foundation Program.

The department also sponsors the SIGN (Student Interest Group in Neurology) program and has been able to attract Howard medical students into neurology residency training.

Clinical Service

The department runs an inpatient service, manages four outpatient ambulatory clinics, which includes the following:

• Neurology clinic
• Consultations in adult and child neurology
• Botox Clinic

Clinical Procedures

Neurodiagnostic lab testing evaluates how the peripheral, autonomic, and central nervous systems function to aid your care team in diagnosing your condition. The faculty conducts and interprets a number of clinical procedures that include:

• EEG (electroencephalogram)
• Video-EEG monitoring
• EMG (electromyogram)
• NCV (nerve conduction velocity)
• Botox
• Neuromuscular Ultrasound