Spotlight on new faculty – meet J. Americo Fernandes, Filho, M.D.

picture disc.Name: J. Americo Fernandes, Filho, M.D.

Title: Assistant professor, neurological sciences

Duties: Neurology attending, Neuromuscular Clinic at UNMC, general neurology at the VA and teaching.

Specialty: Neuromuscular diseases

Degree: M.D., from Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Residency or Post Doc:

  • Postgraduate Internal Medicine Internship at Hospital do Serviodor PublicoEstadual-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Neurology Residency at Hospital do Serviodor Publico Estadual-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Electromyography at Hospital do Serviodor Publico Estadual-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Internal Medicine Internship at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland
  • Neurology Residency at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland
  • Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG) Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland
  • Neuromuscular Disorders Fellowship at Washington University in Saint Louis, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis

Clinic Hours:

  • VA EMG — Monday mornings; teaching clinic on Monday afternoons and Tuesday mornings.
  • UNMC’s South Doctors Tower, Suite 222 — Wednesday mornings.
  • UNMC EMG — Thursday afternoons and MDA on Friday mornings.

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