Company Profile

Absher Neurology is located in Greenville, South Carolina. Absher Neurology has several goals:

1. Delivering high quality neurology care, with an emphasis on stroke, behavioral neurology and dementia, headache, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, movement disorders, neurophysiology, and other common problems;

2. Pursuing important clinical neuroscience research in the Greenville area; and

3. Providing professional and public education services in the Upstate region of South Carolina.

Personnel

Physicians

John R. Absher, M.D., F.A.A.N., is the President of Absher Neurology.  Dr. Absher grew up in Vienna, Virginia, and received a BS with honors in Chemistry from Radford University in 1982.  In 1986, he received an M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University.  He completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Maryland Medical Systems, in Baltimore, and then completed his neurology residency training from 1987 to 1990 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in Iowa City, Iowa.  He then completed a two year Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry fellowship while serving as an Instructor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  In 1992, Dr. Absher joined the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where he remained an Assistant Professor of Neurology until 1999, when he relocated to Greenville, SC.  Dr. Absher is fully credentialed in MRI/CT imaging, and in neurosonology through the American Society of Neuroimaging (ASN), and has been involved with educational activities in this area for almost a decade through both the ASN and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).  Dr. Absher maintains an adjunct faculty position at Wake Forest University, and has also established new academic ties with the University of South Carolina Medical School, as the Director of Academic Neurology for the Greenville Hospital System.  Dr. Absher is "board certified" by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, in Adult Neurology, and has numerous publications.  You may send an email (click here requests) to request a reprint of one of his publications, request that he consider a speaking engagement, or comment about other matters.  You may review or print Part I of Dr. Absher's Curriculum Vitae (CV), and Part II (the Teaching Portfolio) is available upon request.

Office Staff:  All available through our office number, 864-286-8222.

	Laureen Keating Absher, MBA, MA, is the Practice Administrator.  You may contact Laureen for any questions or concerns regarding practice operations.  Laureen also serves as the director of the Alliance for Neuro Research, LLC.  You may reach the ANR office at 864-272-0069.
	Lois Chapman (Cookie) is the Billing and Collections Representative.  She can help if you have questions about your bill, insurance coverage, or other related issues.
	Jennifer McCarthy is the Medical Records Clerk.  She can help you with a medical records request, a form that needs to be completed, and other issues.
	Tina Thackston is the Front Office Receptionist.  She is responsible for most of the scheduling for new patients.  She can help you assure that your first visit goes well and that all necessary information is available at the time of your visit.
	Terry Millard is the L.P.N.  Terry facilitates clinical care and participates in clinical research as the research nurse.
	Natalie Pace is the part-time nerve conduction technologist.
	David Wilt, FNP, is the Family Nurse Practitioner.  David assists with both inpatient and outpatient neurology.  David received his Master of Science in Nursing degree in May 2005 from Clemson University.