HCA Healthcare Sunrise Health GME-Southern Hills Program is a residency program specializing in Neurology, located in Las Vegas, Nevada, directed by Venkatachalam Veerappan, MD, MRCP and coordinated by Michelle Maiorino. and holds an accreditation status of Continued. International Medical Graduates interested in this program may contact the program coordinator directly at michelle.maiorino@hcahealthcare.com or (702) 916-6906. IMGPrep analysts have verified and compiled this program’s IMG acceptance rate, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 score requirements, Visa Sponsorship Policy, graduation year cutoff, and ECFMG certificate requirements — available to IMGPrep subscribers.
This is an HCA Healthcare community-based, hospital-employed GME program housed at Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center, a certified Comprehensive Stroke Center in the Las Vegas market, with neurology added as an expansion specialty alongside the hospital's existing family medicine, transitional year, psychiatry and addiction medicine training. The clinical environment is a corporate, non-university community hospital with stroke certification and general medical-surgical, ICU and NICU infrastructure rather than a quaternary academic referral center, positioning trainees for broad exposure to acute neurologic and stroke presentations within a large multi-hospital system (Sunrise Health GME) rather than a subspecialty-dense academic department. There is no stated research infrastructure, dedicated neuroscience faculty, or fellowship pipeline described on the site, indicating the program's identity centers on solid general clinical neurology training within a community hospital system rather than academic or research production. The program appears to value residents who fit into a service-oriented, hospital-employed, "Care Like Family" culture within a rapidly growing HCA GME network.
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Program Director
Name: Venkatachalam Veerappan, MD, MRCP
Program Coordinator
Name: Michelle Maiorino
Email: michelle.maiorino@hcahealthcare.com
Phone: (702) 916-6906
Address: ,Las Vegas
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