b'COVERING THE FIRST STATEGraduate of UMSOM Movement Disorders Fellowship Is Delawares Sole SpecialistJustin Martello, MD had no ideaThe UMSOM Department of just how special his specializationNeurologys Movement Disorders would turn out to be. But even as aprogram typically accepts only two high school student, he knew thatFellows each year, who then engage he wanted to be a neurologist. Afterin an intensive one to two-year earning his MD and completing hisexperience involving both hands-neurology residency at the Universityon clinical and research activities. of Maryland School of MedicineOur Fellows get broad training and (UMSOM), Dr. Martello was acceptedclinical management of Parkinsons into the schools Movement Disordersand related disorders, says Stephen Fellowship program in 2015. Reich, MD, Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Professor in NeurologyDr. Stephen Reichand Fellowship Director. We cover a complete spectrum of clinicalbe the only) practicing movement treatments, from the use of deepdisorders specialist in the entire brain stimulation to administeringstate. While he admits that the role botulinum toxin. And in terms ofappeared challenging at the outset, their research projects, in almost allhe knew that he was prepared. From cases our fellows have presentedthe knowledge I gained at Maryland, I their research at either a national orfelt there was nothing that I couldnt international meeting. do when I started, he says. And Dr. Martello notes that his fellowshipthats especially true now. Even so, experience provided him with thewe are still learning every day.springboard for his future practice.Dr. Reich is gratified by the I gained a great deal of firsthanddedication and career success of experience in practice by beingformer fellows like Dr. Martello. We able to go into the operating roomare proud of the fact that our fellows to observe different surgeries byhave had excellent clinical training our neurosurgeons, he says. Weand input, he says. Now they are Dr. Justin Martello were also connected to communityputting it to good use in caring for physicians if we wanted to dopeople with movement disorders Although I had a lot of great choiceselectives, which I did to see whatin areas that were previously between Hopkins and Georgetownprivate practice was like in theunderserved. Graduates of the to do my movement disordersmovement disorder world. University of Maryland Movement fellowship, Maryland really hasRight after he completed his UMSOMDisorders fellowship are currently probably the strongest program infellowship, Dr. Martello was offereddelivering subspecialty care the area with the broadest coveragea position at Christiana Care Healththroughout the mid-Atlantic region, of movement disorders and theirSystem in Wilmington, Delaware,including Frederick, Annapolis, and treatments, he notes. It is awhere he found to his surprise thatWashington DC.rigorous, well-defined, and organizedhe was the first (and continues to program.Although I had a lot of great choices between Hopkins and Georgetown to do my movement disorders fellowship, Marylandreally has probably the strongest program in the area with thebroadest coverage of movement disorders and their treatments.8 CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES UPDATEFALL 2019'