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Dr. Diaz is an Assistant Professor of neurology in the Division of MS\/Neuroimmunology at UNC. She sees patients in the MS and transverse myelitis clinics of UNC, providing care to patients with multiple sclerosis and autoimmune and infectious diseases affecting the nervous system. She completed her neurology residency at Yale and neuro-infectious\/MS\/neuroimmunology fellowship at UC San Diego.<\/p>\n

Dr. Diaz has lived and worked in Peru intermittently since 2019 through an NIH Fogarty fellowship and continues to lead studies in Peru with the goal of improving neurological outcomes in Latin America, including studies on epidemiology\/risk factors for dementia, cognitive impairment in Peruvians living with HIV and transverse myelitis in Peru. She is the co-director of a bilateral neurology resident rotation between UNC and Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n

Certifications<\/strong>
\nAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, November 2019, Neurology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20792,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[222,422,216],"class_list":["post-17415","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-faculty-researcher","ud_division-inpatient-faculty-supervisor","ud_division-ms-and-neuroimmunology","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Diaz","ud_first_name":"Monica M","ud_gallery_summary":"

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