Division of Hospital Neurology

About Hospital Neurology

Joshua P. Klein, MD, PhD

Joshua P. Klein, MD, PhD, Chief, Division of Hospital Neurology and Associate Professor of Neurology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School, completed residency in Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and fellowship in Diagnostic Neuroradiology at BWH. He is Chair of the Neurohospitalist Section of the American Academy of Neurology, Chair of the Membership Committee and on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Neuroimaging, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Neurohospitalist Society.

At BWH, he is Clinical Service Director and Director of Performance Improvement for Neurology, Chair of the Neurology Finance Committee, and Associate Director of the Neurology Medical Student Clerkship. Dr. Klein was selected as Neurology Faculty Teacher of the Year in 2012 and is a Fellow of the American Neurological Association (FANA) and the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN). He is a frequent lecturer at national and international neurology conferences and has published extensively. He serves on the editorial board of Access Medicine Neurology (McGraw Hill) and as Scientific Chair of the Audio Digest Foundation Neurology Board Review Course. With his clinical mentors Allan H. Ropper and Martin A. Samuels, he is co-authored the 10th edition of the textbook “Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology”, and is currently co-authoring the 11th edition of the same title.

Shamik Bhattacharyya, MD, MS

Shamik Bhattacharyya, MD, MS, Divisions of Hospital Neurology, Spinal Cord Disorders, and Neurological Infections and Inflammatory Diseases. Dr. Bhattacharyya is an Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School, completed his residency in Neurology at BWH and MGH, and has fellowship training in neuro-inflammatory diseases at BWH. His outpatient clinics focus on neuro-inflammatory disease and spinal cord disorders. He has presented at national meetings and published in renowned journals.

Amar Dhand, MD, DPhil

Amar Dhand, MD, DPhil, Divisions of Hospital Neurology and Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease. He has expertise in stroke syndromes, rehabilitation medicine, neuropathic itch, diagnostic reasoning, and social interactions in medicine. He has built novel patient education tools such as the NeuroBoard, a dry erase map of the brain. His research concerns social networks and health outcomes in neurology patients. His goal is to understand and harness social networks to improve patients’ lives.

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