The neurological community on Vancouver Island has expanded in the last six years. We are currently 12 hospital-affiliated neurologists in Victoria, with two more joining in spring 2019. Most of us work part or full-time in private office settings and several subspecialty interests are represented including neuromuscular medicine, neuro-ophthalmology, cognitive neurology, epilepsy / EEG, MS, and stroke. We are expanding our hospital-based outpatient programs which currently include a stroke rapid assessment clinic, MS clinic, neurophysiology departments, and an acute neurology clinic. Victoria offers full-service tertiary care neurology including endovascular treatments for stroke, as well as on-site neurosurgical collaboration. We have three hospital-affiliated neurologists up-Island as well and are actively recruiting to Nanaimo.
Vancouver Island is an active teaching site for the Faculty of Medicine at UBC, and hospital-affiliated neurologists hold clinical faculty appointments.
Some Victoria-based neurologists lecture to the entire UBC undergraduate medical class via videoconference. Victoria-based faculty are also actively involved in teaching students from the Island Medical Program, including the clinical skills component of the first two years. Students in the third-year ambulatory internal medicine block rotate through hospital-based neurology clinics. Students in the Duncan-based ICC work with our neurologist in Mill Bay. Soon we will be developing elective experiences for fourth-year medical students in Victoria and Nanaimo.
Victoria-based faculty are also heavily involved in postgraduate teaching, and there are usually at least 2 residents undertaking neurology rotations each block. Neurology and internal medicine residents visit from Vancouver to do community electives. Additionally, we train residents from our Victoria-based programs in the Royal College common PGY-1 year, internal medicine, emergency medicine, psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and family medicine. We have developed a stroke-specific rotation which has been incorporated in the emergency medicine and internal medicine curricula.
 | Edward Atkins Clinical Associate Professor Specialty: Neuro-ophthalmology Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital | | Kristen Attwell-Pope Clinical Instructor Specialty: General Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital | |
 | Laura Baxter Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: MS Clinic/Hospital: Nanaimo Regional General Hospital | | Peter Boulton Clinical Instructor | |
| Andre Durocher Clinical Instructor Specialty: General Clinic/Hospital: Victoria General Hospital |  | Alexandre Henri-Bhargava Clinical Associate Professor Specialty: Behavioural Neurology/ Dementia Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital | |
| Janka Hegedus Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: General Clinic/Hospital: Victoria General Hospital | | Olinka Hrebicek Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: MS Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital | |
| Nadim Jiwa Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: Neuromuscular/General Clinic/Hospital: Victoria General Hospital | | Olga Lekontseva Clinical Instructor Specialty: General Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital; Victoria General Hospital | |
| Andrew Lockey Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: Stroke Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital; Victoria General Hospital | | Ryan MacIsaac Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: Epilepsy Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital; Victoria General Hospital | |
| Alexander Moll Clinical Associate Professor Specialty: General Clinic/Hospital: Duncan Hospital | | David Parton Clinical Assistant Professor | |
| Andrew Penn Clinical Associate Professor Specialty: Stroke | | Mahsa Sadeghi Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: Stroke Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital; Victoria General Hospital | |
| James Scott Clinical Assistant Professor | | Martin Sutton-Brown Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: Neuro-ophthalmology Clinic/Hospital: Nanaimo Regional General Hospital | |
| Keiran Tuck Clinical Assistant Professor Specialty: Movement Disorders Clinic/Hospital: Royal Jubilee Hospital; Victoria General Hospital |