| Dr.
Loftus did his medical school training and his Neurology Residency at the
Baylor College of Medicine. While in medical school, he received the Outstanding
Student in Neurology award for his graduating class.
After neurology training, Dr. Loftus joined Diagnostic Clinic of Houston,
a multispecialty physician group in the Texas Medical Center. He began
doing Neurology Research at Diagnostic Clinic and has been Diagnostic
Clinic's principal investigator on several studies. To date these studies
have focused on migraines, diabetic neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia,
and the prevention of stroke. Research funding has been provided by
Astra-Zeneca,
Glaxo, and Johnson and Johnson. In 2006, he left Diagnostic Clinic and
started Bellaire Neurology.
Dr. Loftus has been an invited speaker for the Texas Association of
Family Practice 2001 CME meeting and again in 2004. In 2003, he spoke
for the
Texas Neurological Association's Annual Meeting. He has presented MS
research at international venues in 2005 and 2006. He is a member of
the American Academy of Neurology, American Medical Association,
Texas
Neurological
Association, Texas Medical Association, and the Harris County Medical
Association.
Dr. Loftus believes strongly in the tradition of physicians educating
their own. From medical students, to residents, to other specialists and
contemporaries, Dr. Loftus loves to teach. For ten years, as Voluntary
Associate Professor of Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurology,
he spent part of each day one month (including weekends) each year as
the Neurology Inpatient and Consult Attending at Ben Taub General Hospital.
During this month, he was responsible for directing the neurology residents
and medical students for all inpatient neurology patients. He current
gives numerous educational talks each year to physicians on migraine,
epilepsy, and neuropathic pain.
Dr. Loftus admits his private practice patients to either the Methodist
Hospital, where he is on active staff or Park Plaza Hospital. He has served
on a Quality Assurance Board of a medical hospital for 10 years.
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