Brain Trust continued
work with Richard Lenehan, MD,
chairman of the Department of Neurology
and a longtime Scott & White physician.
The team was joined by Dr. Kirkpatrick,
and a deep bench of specialists, physician
assistants, nurses, and technicians.
When the new Children’s Hospital at
Scott & White opens this fall, the full
scope of Neuroscience Institute services
will be provided to pediatric patients.
Today the Neurosciences Institute has
more than 32 providers and is in the
process of recruiting 10 more best-of-class
providers to the team.
Innovation
The clinical needs of the patient set the
direction for Neuroscience Institute innovation, research, and the focus of our
growing team of investigators.
“In addition to offering the most
comprehensive range of neurologic,
neurosurgical, and psychiatric specialists in
Central Texas, Scott & White has state-of-
the-art neuroimaging technology,” says
Dr. Lenehan. “There’s nothing we cannot
do or cannot make happen that is currently
considered modern neuroscience,” says
Dr. Friehs.
Jennifer Robinson, PhD, is director of
the Functional Neuroimaging Center. A
neuroimaging specialist, Dr. Robinson
focuses on functional MRI (fMRI), an
imaging process that can map the brain’s
activity centers. The test is similar to an
MRI except that a computer screen is
Lynn Owens and
Dr. Elmyra Encarnacion
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