Baptist Health Miami Neuroscience Institute has named board-certified neurologist Nestor Galvez-Jimenez, M.D., director of the autonomic neurology program. He specializes in movement disorders and autonomic failure. He treats such conditions as Parkinson’s disease, dystonic syndromes, tremor, myoclonus, Tourette syndrome, chorea, Huntington’s disease, gait and balance issues, cerebellar ataxias and dysautonomia as well as other autonomic problems such as long COVID neurological complications, orthostatic intolerance and sweat disorders.
Before joining Baptist Health, Dr. Galvez was a neurologist and director of the Movement Disorders Program and Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic Florida and the inaugural holder of the Pauline Braathen Distinguished Chair in Neurology, conferred in 2012.
Dr. Galvez is committed to training and mentoring the next generation of clinicians. He serves as a professor of neurology at both Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as well as clinical professor of biomedical sciences at Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.
Dr. Galvez earned a Doctor of Medicine degree at Universidad San Carlos Facultad de Ciencias Medicas in Guatemala City as well as at the State University of New York in Albany, NY. He earned a master’s degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville Spain and a master’s degree in health services administration at Barry University in Miami. He also earned a Master of Jurisprudence degree in health law, policy and management and risk management and compliance at Texas A&M University in College Station.
