The National MS Society launched a a program to recognize Centers for MS Comprehensive Care. The program focuses on the experience of the patient and emphasizes comprehensive and coordinated MS care.
The Centers for Comprehensive Care:
- Focuses on the experience of the patient
- Recognizes the benefit for patients to have access to a full array of medical, psycho-social and rehabilitation services to address the varied and often complex issues related to living with MS
- Acknowledges clinical sites that demonstrate the ability to provide coordinated and comprehensive MS care to patients, while allowing flexibility in center operations and staffing models
- Involves a strong collaboration between the Society and center
- Recommended by a National Comprehensive Care Review Committee
This page will be continuously updated and monitored to reflect Centers for Comprehensive care that have been reviewed and approved and have a formal written agreement with the Society. This list is growing, as there are many centers for comprehensive MS care in various stages of the process.
In addition to these locations, please contact us at 1-800-344-4867 for current, detailed information on other treatment resources in your area.
California
Fullerton Neurology and Headache Center
100 Laguna Road, #208
Fullerton, California 92835
Director: Jack H. Florin, MD
Phone: 714-738-0800
Mercy Medical MS Center
6555 Coyle Ave
3rd Floor Neurology
Carmichael, California 95608
Director: John A. Schafer, MD
Phone: 916-536-3670
University of California-Irvine
Gottschalk Medical Plaza
1 Medical Plaza Drive
Irvine, California 92697
Director: Michael Demetriou, MD
Associate Director: Gaby Thai, MD
Phone: 949-824-8600
Florida
University of Miami MS Center of Excellence
Department of Neurology
1150 NW 14th Street, Ste. 609
Miami, Florida 33136
Director: Kottil Rammohan, MD
Phone: 305-243-6658
University of South Florida, Multiple Sclerosis Division
Department of Neurology
12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC55
Tampa, Florida 33612
Director: Stanley John Krolczyk, DO, RPh
Phone: 813-974-8856
Illinois
Consultants in Neurology MS Center
Northbrook Office
1535 Lake Cook Road, Suite 601
Northbrook, Illinois 60062
Director: Daniel Wynn, MD
Phone: 847-509-0270
Neurologic Associates Ltd.
11824 Southwest Highway, Ste. 100
Palos Heights, Illinois 60463
Director: Arthur Itkin, MD
Phone: 708-361-0222
Northwestern University Medical Center
Galter Outpatient Facility
675 N. St. Clair Street, Suite 20-100
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Director: Bruce Cohen, MD
Phone: 312-695-7950
Iowa
Iowa Health Physicians
1221 Pleasant Street, Suite 300
Des Moines, IA 50309
Director: Todd Janus, MD, PhD, FAAN
Phone: 315-241-4081
Website: www.iowahealth.org
Ruan Neurology Clinic and Research Center
1111 6th Avenue, East Tower, Suite A100
Des Moines, Iowa 50314
Director: Bruce Hughes, MD
Phone: 515-358-0011
Kansas
University of Kansas Medical Center - MS Clinic
3599 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, Kansas
Director: Sharon Lynch, MD
Phone: 913-588-6970
Maryland
Maryland Center for Multiple Sclerosis
at the University of Maryland Medical Center
16 South Eutaw Street, 3rd Floor
Frenkil Building
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Director: Walter Royal, MD
Phone: 410-328-5605
Website: www.umm.edu/ms/index.htm
Massachusetts
Lahey Clinic, Inc.
MS Clinical Center
16 Hayden Avenue
Lexington, Massachusetts 02421
Director: Claudia Chaves, MD
Phone: 781-372-7140
Multiple Sclerosis Care Center
Mount Auburn Hospital
300 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 316
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Director: Linda Buchwald, MD
Phone: 617-499-5014
Website: www.mountauburn.caregroup.org/clinicalservices/neurology.htm
Newton-Wellesely Hospital
Multiple Sclerosis Clinic Center
Rehab Dept., 2 West
2014 Washington Street
Newton, Massachusetts 02462
Director: Marybeth Toran, MD
Phone: 617-243-6967
Website: www.nwh.org/clinical-centers/multiple-sclerosis-clinic/
MS Center at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
736 Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02135
Director: Ellen S. Lathi, MD
Phone: 617-789-2600/617-789-2378
Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center
@ Brigham & Women's Hospital
1 Brookline Place, Ste. 225
Boston, Massachusetts 02445
Directors: Howard Weiner, MD, Samia Khoury, MD, Guy Buckle, MD
Phone: 617-525-6550
UMass Memorial Healthcare MS Center
119 Belmont Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01605
Director: Peter Riskind, MD, PhD
Phone: 508-793-6555
Website: www.umassmemorial.org/medicalcenterIP.cfm?id=1725
Michigan
Henry Ford Hospital MS Center
Department of Neurology
2799 West Grand Boulevard
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Director: Stanton Elias, MD
Phone: 313-916-2585
Website: www.henryford.com
Missouri
John L. Trotter MS Clinic
Washington University School of Medicine/
Department of Neurology
660 South Euclid Avenue
Box 8111
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Director: Anne Cross, MD
Phone: 314-362-3293
MS Center @ St. Louis VA Medical Center
915 North Grand Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63106
Director: Florian Thomas, MD, PhD
Phone: 314-905-3289
St. Louis Univ Dept of Neuro & Psyc MS Ctr.
St. Louis University DBA SLUCARE
3660 Vista Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Director: Florian Thomas, MD, PhD
Phone: 314-977-6082
The MS Center for Innovations in Care
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
3009 N. Ballas Road, Suite 207B
St. Louis, Missouri 63131
Director: Barry A. Singer, MD
Phone: 314-872-7333
Website: www.mslivingwell.org
West County Multiple Sclerosis Center
Mercy Hospital St. Louis
1176 Town & Country Commons
Chesterfield, Missouri 63017-8200
Director: Barbara Green, MD
Phone: 636-893-1260
Nebraska
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Multiple Sclerosis Clinic
South Tower Doctors Building, Suite 222
Omaha, Nebraska 68198
Director: Pierre Fayad, MD
Phone: 402-559-7857
New Jersey
MS Center at St. Barnabas
200 South Orange Avenue, Suite 124A
Livingston, New Jersey 07039
Director: Joseph Herbert, MD
Phone: 973-322-7484
MS Diagnostic and Treatment Center
University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
90 Bergen Street, Suite 8100
Newark, New Jersey 07103
Director: Stuart D. Cook, MD
Phone: 973-972-9181
Holy Name Hospital MS Center
718 Teaneck Road
Teaneck, New Jersey 07666
Director: Mary Ann Picone, MD
Phone: 201-837-0727
Website: www.holyname.org/mscenter
New York
Alpha Neurology MS Comprehensive Care Center/
Staten Island University Hospital
27 New Dorp Lane
Staten Island, New York 10306
Director: Allan Perel, MD
Phone: 718-667-3800
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
MS Care Center
1770 Grand Concourse, Suite 2G
Bronx, New York 10457
Director: Rene Elkin, MD
Phone: 718-901-8142
Corinne Goldsmith Dickinson Center
for Multiple Sclerosis
Mount Sinai Medical Center
5 East 98th Street, First Floor
New York, New York 10029
Directors: Fred Lublin, MD, Aaron Miller, MD
Phone: 212-241-6845
MS Center of Northeastern New York
Riverhill Center, Suite 105
1205 Troy-Schenectady Road
Latham, New York 12110
Director: Keith Edwards, MD
Phone: 518-785-1000
Website: msneny.empireneuro.org
New York Presbyterian Hospital Cornell
Judith Jaffe Multiple Sclerosis Center
1305 York Avenue, Ste. Y217
New York, New York 10021
Director: Timothy Vartanian, MD
Phone: 646-962-9800
NYU-Hospital for Joint Diseases
MS Comprehensive Care Center
301 East 17th Street, Suite 544
New York, New York 10003
Director: Joseph Herbert, MD
Phone: 212-598-6305
North Carolina
Carolinas Medical Center-Multiple Sclerosis Center
1010 Edgehill Road, North
Charlotte, North Carolina 28207
Director: Jill Conway, MD, and Michael Kaufman, MD
Phone: 704-446-1900
North Dakota
Sanford North Neurology MS Center
701 1st Avenue S.
Fargo, ND 58103
Director: Susan Scarberry, MD
Phone: 701-234-4035
Website: www.meritcare.com
Ohio
Neurology & Neuroscience Associates, Inc.
701 White Pond Drive, Suite 300
Akron, Ohio 44320
Director: DeRen Huang, MD, PhD
Phone: 330-572-1011
Website: www.nnadoc.com
Oak Clinic
3838 Massillon Road Suite 360
Uniontown, Ohio 44685
Director: Timothy Carrabine, MD
Phone: 330-896-9625
Website: www.oakclinic.com
Ohio State University MS Center
Department of Neurology
Camera Center, 2050 Kenny Road
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Director: Mike Racke, MD
Phone: 614-293-4964
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research
Building U
1950 East 89th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Directors: Richard Rudick, MD, Robert Fox, MD, Jeff Cohen, MD
Phone: 216-444-8612
Website: www.ccf.org/mellen
Pennsylvania
Northshore Neurosciences/UPMC Hamot Multiple Sclerosis Center
120 East Second Street, 3rd Floor
Erie, Pennsylvania 16507
Director: Erica Grazioli, D.O.
Phone: 814-452-8300
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Multiple Sclerosis Center
811 Lillian Kaufman Building
3471 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Director: Rock Heyman, MD
Phone: 412-648-6761
West Penn Allegheny Health System MS Center
Allegheny General Hospital
420 East North Avenue, Ste. 206
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Director: Thomas Scott, MD
Phone: 412-359-8850
Rhode Island
MS Center of Care New England
Kent Hospital Outpatient Rehabilitation
1351 South County Trail, Ste. 200
East Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818
Director: Joseph Guarnaccia, MD
Phone: 401-886-0629
Rhode Island Hospital MS Center
2 Dudley Street, Suite 555
Providence, Rhode Island 02905
Director: Syed Rizvi, MD
Phone: 401-444-3032
South Dakota
Great Plains MS Center Neurology Associates
1100 East 21 St, Suite 506
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Director: Lisa Viola, DO
Phone: 605-315-0844
Tennessee
Saint Thomas Center for MS Treatment,
Tennessee Neurology Specialists
4230 Harding Road, Suite 501 West
Nashville, Tennessee 37205
Director: Robert J. Fallis, MD
Phone: 615-383-8575
Texas
Baylor College of Medicine/The Methodist Hospital
Maxine Mesinger MS Clinic
6501 Fannin, NB100
Houston, Texas 77030
Director: Victor Rivera, MD
Phone: 713-798-6296
Pediatric MS Clinic at Texas Children's Hospital
Blue Bird Circle Neurology Clinic
6621 Fannin CC 1250
Houston, Texas 77030
Director: Timothy Lotze, MD
Phone: 832-822-1779
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
6410 Fannin Street, Ste. 1014
Houston, Texas 77030
Director: Raymond Martin, MD
Phone: 832-325-7080
Website: www.uth.tmc.edu/schools/med/neurology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
5959 Harry Hines Blvd. POB I, 11th Floor
Dallas, Texas 75390
Director: Elliott M. Frohman, MD, PhD
Phone: 214-648-9574
Utah
The University of Utah Neurology MS Clinic
Imaging & Neurosciences Center
729 Arapeen Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
Director: John Rose, MD
Phone: 801-587-8127
Website: www.medicine.utah.edu/neurology/
Rocky Mountain MS Clinic
370 E. 9th Avenue
Salt Lake City, Utah 84103
Director: John Foley, MD
Phone: 801-408-5700
Vermont
MS Center of Northern New England
FAHC-UHC Campus
1 South Prospect Street
Burlington, Vermont 05401
Director: Angela Applebee, MD
Phone: 802-847-5441
Website: www.fletcherallen.org/services/neurological_care/specialties/multiple_sclerosis/
Virginia
James Q. Miller Multiple Sclerosis Clinic
UVA Health System
500 Ray C. Hunt Drive
Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
Director: Myla D. Goldman, MD, MS
Phone: 434-243-5457
Washington
Providence Holy Family Multiple Sclerosis Center
5901 N. Lidgerwood, Suite 25
Spokane, Washington 99208
Director: Roger N. Cooke, MD
Phone: 509-489-5019
Wisconsin
Aurora Bay Care Medical Center
2845 Greenbrier Road, Ste. 140
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54308
Director: Merle Teetzen, MD
Phone: 920-288-8100
Marshfield Clinic MS Center
1000 N. Oak Street
Marshfield, Wisconsin 54449
Director: Loren Rolak, MD
Phone: 715-387-5350
Pro Health Care Neuroscience Center
MS Clinic
725 American Avenue
Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188
Director: Stanya Smith, MD
Phone: 262-928-8668
Froedtert & Medical College of WI MS Clinic
Department of Neurology
9200 West Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226
Director: Lea Rayman, MD
Phone: 414-805-5203
Anyone interested in learning more about treatment options for pediatric MS can learn more by visiting our information on the Pediatric MS Centers of Excellence.