Hunter Neurology

Timeline

First Subspecialty Trained Multiple Sclerosis Specialist in Tennessee - 1997

• First Advanced Practice Neurological Nurses in Multiple Sclerosis Program in Tennessee - 
• First Clinic to provide a comprehensive continuous subspecialty care team
• First community based regional Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis Center in Tennessee - 2000
• First community-based National Multiple Sclerosis Society Affiliated Center in Tennessee - 2000
• First Full time Multiple Sclerosis Clinic in Tennessee - 2000

2000+

• First Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers affiliated Center in Tennessee - 2001
• First to use Optical Coherence Tomography in routine care of neurological patients - 2002
• First Multiple Sclerosis-Certified Nurse in Tennessee (Heli M. Hunter, A.P.R.N.) - 2002
• Second Multiple Sclerosis-Certified Nurse Practitioner in Tennessee (Janet M. Brown, A.P.R.N.) -2003

• First to bring central motor conduction studies to care of neurological patients in Tennessee - 2004
• First to bring community-based infusion program for multiple sclerosis 2001
• First clinic to employ brainstem reflexes in routine diagnostic evaluations for CNS demyelination -2000
• First community based autonomic studies program - 2002First Multiple Sclerosis Program with neuroimaging credentialed neurologist - 2004
• First community based neurological practice to provide multiple subspecialty trained neurologists - 2004
• First advanced imaging program in multiple sclerosis using 3 Tesla imaging - 2005
• Largest community research practice in MS in Tennessee 2010