Subspecialty Training Programs Achieve UCNS Accreditation

6-1-2025 The United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS) is pleased to announce the names of nine 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 251 UCNS-accredited training programs in UCNS-recognized subspecialties. UCNS congratulates the following programs and their program directors in achieving UCNS accreditation effective December 1, 2024.

Program	Program Director
Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry
Emory University	Chadwick Hales, MD, PhD
Clinical Neuromuscular Pathology
University of Kansas Medical Center	Mazen Dimachkie, MD
Headache Medicine
Henry Ford Health	Ashar Ali, DO
Neonatal Neurocritical Care
Northwestern University/Lurie Children’s Hospital	Andrea Pardo, MD
University of Calgary	Khorshid Mohammad, MD, MSc
University of California, Irvine/Children’s Hospital of Orange County	John Tran, MD
University of Rochester	Justin Rosati, MD
Neurocritical Care
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine	Keith Dombrowski, MD
Neuro-oncology
Barrow Neurological Center at St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center	Matthew Smith-Cohn, DO

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 the July 31, 2025, deadline will be reviewed for accreditation in the fall of 2025.