Training Programs Achieve UCNS Accreditation

11-15-2023 The United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS) is pleased to announce the names of 10 newly accredited UCNS fellowship training programs. Programs attaining UCNS accreditation status offer the core curriculum established by the subspecialty and meet required quality standards established by UCNS.

Accreditation is a voluntary process of evaluation and peer review based on UCNS accreditation standards. Fellows who complete a UCNS-accredited program meet the training eligibility requirements to apply for certification in the subspecialty. There are now  243 UCNS-accredited training programs in UCNS-recognized subspecialties. UCNS congratulates the following programs and their program directors in achieving UCNS accreditation effective December 1, 2023.

Program	Program Director
Autonomic Disorders
University of Utah	Melissa Cortez, DO
Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry
University of Arizona, Phoenix/Banner Sun Health Research Institute	Parichita Choudhury, MD
Headache Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College	Susan Broner, MD
Interventional Neurology
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso	Alberto Maud, MD
Neonatal Neurocritical Care
Children's National Hospital	Sarah Mulkey, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Medical Center	Charu Venkatesan, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine	Joseph Scafidi, DO, MS
University of California, San Francisco	Hannah Glass, MDCM
University of Texas Southwestern	Jennifer Thomas, MD
Washington University in St. Louis/St. Louis Children's Hospital	Sarah Bauer Huang, MD, PhD

Training programs interested in applying for accreditation will find application and program requirement information for each subspecialty under Accreditation at UCNS.org. Applications received by January 31, 2024,  will be reviewed for accreditation in the spring of 2024. Accreditation applications received by July 31, 2024, will be reviewed in the fall of 2024.