Stanford Neurology & Neurological Sciences

the department has been a center of excellence for more than four decades and includes over 140 school of medicine faculty members with primary academic appointments in the department at our four outstanding teaching hospitals and health care systems. the stanford health care (shc) new 824,000 square-foot state-of-the-art hospital opened in 2019 with over 600 beds, making it one of the largest inpatient facilities in california. ranked in the top 10 for neurology and neurosurgical care by us news and world report, shc is at the cutting edge of the latest treatments for neurological diseases. shc boasts a dedicated outpatient stanford neuroscience health center—a facility like no other on the west coast—as well as clinics located throughout northern california. with over 60,000 annual outpatient visits and thus one of the largest neurology volumes in the u.s., stanford neurology provides care for a large and highly diverse patient population and supports excellence in clinical care, edu