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University of Rochester Medical Center: A Driving Force in Neuromedicine University of “The Del Monte Rochester Neuromedicine Medical Center’s Institute will foster contributions in the feld of collaboration among neuromedicine researchers, and research have between scientists and improved patient physicians, closing the health, enhanced gap between what we physician training, know and what we and spurred practice.” new thinking on a number of research fronts. URMC has routinely ranked in the top 10 among the research institutes in NIH funding URMC CEO for neuromedicine studies. In URMC laboratories, hundreds of Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D. neuroscientists have opened up new avenues of possible treatment for conditions like muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease and stroke, and they lead several worldwide efforts to fnd better treatments for people with Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease. URMC neuromedicine physicians and researchers are also making a difference in Rochester, actively developing a community-wide approach to neuromedicine clinical programs. Today, Medical Center neurologists manage care at three of the city’s hospitals and its neurosurgeons work out of all four of Rochester’s hospitals, ensuring that all residents have consistent access to the highest standards of care and technology. The group is also working with all of the area’s health systems to develop a consistent triage and treatment approach community-wide for stroke patients in an effort to decrease disability and save even more lives. And we continue attract the best and brightest physicians and scientists to our doorsteps. During the last decade, three times as many University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry graduates have chosen to pursue careers in neuromedicine than in other schools. For the last eight years, all residents pursuing adult neurology at the University passed national certifying exams on the frst try, compared to an 85 percent national pass rate. URMC is also one of three recipients of an NIH training grant that teaches resident physicians to translate lab discoveries into new therapies for brain diseases.