Jeffery C. Wagner, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Neurology
Director, Medical Student Clinical Neurology Clerkship
Director, Resident Noon Lecture Series
Focus: Education, Clinical Neurology, Neuromuscular Diseases, Electromyography, Botulinum Toxin Injections
Jeff Wagner grew up in Salem, Oregon. He attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1998. He then matriculated in the medical school class of 2002 at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon where he received his MD. After a one year medicine internship at Providence Portland (Oregon) Medical Center, Dr .Wagner completed his neurology residency at Oregon Health and Sciences University. He subsequently completed a 1 year neurophysiology fellowship with an emphasis on neuromuscular diseases at the University of Utah. He joined the Department of Neurology at the University of Utah as an assistant clinical professor and is acting director of the medical student clinical neurology clerkship and the neurology resident noon lecture series.
Dr Wagner’s clinical interests include neuromuscular diseases, electromyography, botulinum toxin injections and movement disorders. He also participates in the outreach program which provides neurology education at Moi University teaching hospital in Eldoret, Kenya and and spends two weeks there each November teaching and providing care.
He is also the assistant director of the University of Utah neurology outreach clinic in Jackson, Wyoming that is headed by Dr. David Renner.
Selected Publications
- Wagner JC, Lutsep HL. (2005). Thrombolysis in young adults. J Thromb Thrombolysis, 20(2), 133-6.
- Wagner JC, Lutsep H. (2006). Lessons from a Prospective Trial: No Warfarin for Intracranial Stenosis. Future Neurology, 1, 31-34.
- Wagner JC, Bromberg MB. (December 2007). HIV Infection Presenting with Motor Axonal Variant of Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease, 9(2).
Book Chapters
- Wagner JC, Smith AG. (2008). Porphyric Neuropathy. In Florian Lang (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
