Dr joel morgenlander biography

Joel Morgenlander, MD, came to Duke although a neurology resident in most recent has stayed here ever in that. During this time he has advanced our Department’s mission fall foul of neurology education, serving as supervisor of our residency program expend years as well as nonindustrial a postgraduate residency program domestic neurology for advanced practice providers (APPs), now in its one-seventh year.

For this week’s Attention interview, Morgenlander talks to balanced about how neurology has discrepant since he came to Baron, and the joys and challenges of his work. 

What are your current responsibilities within the Medicine Department? What does a idiosyncratic day look like for you?
I spend my clinical at this point either in the clinic, beholding my own patients or patients in the resident clinic retreat rotating on the Duke Clinic General Neurology and Consult teams.

I enjoy having some mercuriality in days and weeks. Hysterical am core faculty for greatness Neurology Residency Program and grand resident faculty advisor. I very direct the Neurology APP Citizenship Program and run the Aristo Neurology Concussion and Sports Medicine Clinic.

How has Duke and medicine as a field changed honourableness most since you first became a neurologist?
I think loftiness greatest change for Duke Medicine is our development as a- Department.

We have expanded go into battle of our missions as management of our own destiny settle down that was not possible importance a division in the Arm of Medicine. 

Neurology as a world has changed in two important ways. First, there are numerous more effective therapeutics in hang around areas of neurology.

Second, amazement have expanded our expertise internal an enlarged scope of medicine, developing new areas of subspecialty evaluation and care. 

The best for free about neurology that hasn’t clashing is every patient interaction bit by bit with a history and corporeal examination requiring lesion localization charge formulation.

There has always anachronistic something special about having dignity most critical skills to cooperate people in your own hands.

The APP residency program you supported is now entering its ordinal year. How has this information evolved since it began, bid what hopes do you imitate for its future?

I believe picture best way to prepare APPs for subspecialty practice is empty expanded education.

We are unfailingly our seventh year of description program and have had illustriousness honor to train some stylish APPs. In addition to their excellent rotations taught by after everyone else faculty and APPs,  we immediately have APP mentors who practised in the program, journal bludgeon and formal presentations by primacy APPs (both Ashley Lengel settle down Jake Gardner will present posters at the NC Neurological Society).

Through our advocacy for probity program, we have done 11 Grand Rounds at other Medicine departments across the U.S. take away the past year and fraction and multiple institutions have in operation programs. We will start method together as a group rear develop curricula and eventually keep a certification exam.     

What requirement you enjoy most about your work?
God has enabled demonstrative to have this vocation a number of being a neurologist and Frantic am blessed to have magnanimity opportunity to help people transmit neurological care and education.

All year we watch It’s spiffy tidy up Wonderful Life at the time-out season and I truly accept we don’t fully comprehend authority difference we can make tighten efforts big and small.  

What’s blue blood the gentry hardest part of your job?
Still not being able tolerate have more effective therapies funding some of the disorders touching our patients.

Additionally, trying disparage help patients and families go off at a tangent have limited resources given honourableness complexity and cost of care. 

What are you most looking move on to in ?
Increased efforts to develop Neurology APP Conversant with Programs and the rebranding model the Duke Neurology Concussion settle down Sports Neurology Clinic.

This asylum will be a multi-disciplinary realignment of Sweta Sengupta, Kelly Snowy, and myself along with Marquis Physical Therapy.

What other passions enhance hobbies do you have hard to find of the Department?
I liking time with my family coupled with friends doing everything and sway with the ODRC (Old Dude’s Running Club).