Welcome to Penn State Hershey Neurology
Welcome to Penn State Hershey Neurology where we're a rapidly growing department that is part of the Neuroscience Clinical Institute. Our goal is to be the premier academic neurological center in Central Pennsylvania by providing the highest quality patient care, research and training.
We are committed to excellence in the delivery of neurological care, and we place the needs, well-being, and comfort of our patients above and beyond all other considerations. We strive to provide care that is evidence based, effective, efficient, compassionate, economically competitive and patient centered. More...
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Dr. Sankar Bandy completed his undergraduate studies at Calcutta National Medical College and medical school training at Calcutta University. He then completed his neurology residency training at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and fellowship training in Clinical Neurophysiology at Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Bandy is presently Assistant Professor of Neurology and cares for patients with Neuromuscular Disorders.
Date: June 7, 2013 Speaker: Bhawna Jha, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, PSU. Topic: Risk Management in Pain Medicine.
Date: June 14, 2013 Speaker: Mark Scheuer, MD, Persyst Development Corp. Topic: Advances in Brain Function Monitoring Using Trend-Assisted EEG.
Date: June 21, 2013 Speaker: Lawrence Kass, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, PSU. Topic: Providing Feedback
Date: June 28, 2013 NO GRAND ROUNDS
The following Physicians have been named to the "Best Doctors in America, 2013-2014"
Neurology
- Bariatric surgery restores nerve cell properties altered by diet Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, according to Penn State College of Medicine scientists, who have shown how surgery restores some properties of nerve cells that tell people their stomachs are full.More...
- Penn State College of Medicine awarded $1 million AMA grant Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded a prestigious $1 million grant by the American Medical Association as part of a program aimed at transforming the way the physicians of tomorrow are trained.More...
- Penn State Hershey entrepreneurs win first 'startup boot camp' awards Dr. Joseph Sassani, ophthalmologist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and professor of ophthalmology and pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, is the winner of The TechCelerator@Hershey’s inaugural Eight Week Boot Camp program for promising entrepreneurs.More...
- Collaborative Hershey and University Park medical service trip This spring brought the first collaborative spring break service trip for University Park undergraduates and Hershey medical students and physicians.More...