Welcome from the Program Director
Scott L. Silliman, M.D.
Program Director
Kenneth Hentschel, D.O., Ph.D.
Associate Program Director
Welcome to our 3-year, ACGME-approved Neurology Residency Training Program at the University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, one of two teaching campuses affiliated with the college. The other campus is located in Gainesville, Fla. In addition to the neurology residency, the College of Medicine - Jacksonville has many other residency and fellowship programs.
The neurology residency program's diverse competency-based curriculum combines an outstanding clinical experience with bedside and didactic teaching from exceptional UF faculty. The curriculum also provides extensive exposure to neurological research.
Neurology residents conduct their inpatient and outpatient adult neurology training, as well as their neurology resident clinic at the Shands Jacksonville Neuroscience Institute, a JCAHO-certified primary Stroke Center, and an AHCHA-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. The hospital's helicopter air ambulance is used to transport patients with ischemic strokes to the hospital from a 12-county area. These patients are evaluated for intravenous thrombolysis, intra-arterial thrombolysis, or clot retrieval. The Neuroscience Institute also serves as a referral center for epilepsy. Many of these patients are monitored in inpatient video-EEG rooms on the Neurology unit at Shands Jacksonville.
Two rotations are held in Gainesville, Fla., where residents rotate through pediatric neurology and a basic neuroscience course at Shands at UF and the UF College of Medicine respectively. Residents will see and provide care to pediatric patients with a variety of neurologic disorders, while being supervised and taught by UF physicians from the division of pediatric neurology.
Please take some time to navigate through our site to learn more about our residency program. Please contact us if we can offer any further information regarding our program.
Scott L. Silliman, M.D.
Associate Professor; Program Director, Neurology Residency; Program Director, Vascular Neurology Fellowship
Kenneth Hentschel, D.O., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor; Associate Program Director, Neurology Residency
