International Issues: A guide to US academic global health programs in neurology

Rohini D Samudralwar1, Adeline Goss1, Kathryn Rimmer1

  • 1From the Department of Neurology (R.D.S.), Washington University in St. Louis, MO; Department of Neurology (A.G.), University of California, San Francisco Medical Center; Department of Neurology (K.R., K.S., K.T.T.), Columbia University Medical Center, New York; Department of Neurology (A.N.), Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York, NY; Global Neurology Program, Department of Neurology (O.K.S.), and Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Department of Neurology (O.K.S.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Internal Medicine (O.K.S.), University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia; and Department of Neurology (J.H.C.), NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.

Neurology
|April 4, 2018
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