Nataliya Ternopolska, MD, Joins St. Luke’s Neurology Associates

Bethlehem, PA (11/28/2016) – Multiple Sclerosis specialist Dr. Nataliya Ternopolska has joined St. Luke’s Neurology Associates in its multidisciplinary Multiple Sclerosis Center where she will diagnose, provide compassionate care for and devise treatment plans for patients with central nervous system disorders.

Dr. Ternopolska served as a multiple sclerosis fellow at the Judith Jaffe Multiple Sclerosis Center at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Before that she was chief resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, where she also served as an intern.

A graduate of Vinnica Medical University in Ukraine, Dr. Ternopolska was chosen to receive a prestigious National Multiple Sclerosis Society Grant in 2013 and has presented her research to the American Academy of Neurology and the Tykeson Fellows Conference, a forum in which young scientists share MS research, ideas and advice.

Multiple Sclerosis is a neurological condition that commonly strikes young and middle-aged adults in the prime of their life. Because of the multiple factors involved in this chronic disease, St. Luke’s MS Center has a multidisciplinary team that is focused on patients, their families and their environments that includes: neurology, psychology, urology, a social worker and a rehabilitation team. 

St. Luke’s Neurology Associates has offices in Allentown, Bethlehem, Quakertown, Tamaqua and East Stroudsburg. Dr. Ternopolska will be seeing patients in the Eighth Avenue Neurology office, 484-526-5210, as well as the Monroe Neurology office, 570-424-1102.

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit, regional, fully integrated and nationally recognized network providing services at seven hospitals and more than 270 outpatient sites. The network’s service area includes Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery, Berks and Monroe counties in Pennsylvania and in Warren County in New Jersey. Dedicated to advancing health education, St. Luke’s operates the nation’s oldest School of Nursing and 22 graduate medical educational programs and is considered a major teaching hospital, the only one in the region. In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke’s created the region’s first Medical School. Repeatedly, including 2016, St. Luke’s has earned Truven’s 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation as well as 50 Top Cardiovascular program in addition to other honors for clinical excellence. St. Luke’s is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of St. Luke’s information technology applications such as electronic medical records, telehealth, online scheduling and pricing information. St. Luke’s is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers in comparison to major teaching hospitals and other health systems.
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