Dr. Virginia Thornley is a Board-Certified Neurologist who practices in Sarasota, Florida. She practices general neurology encompassing headaches, back pain, neck pain, chronic pain syndromes due to disorders such as Fibromyalgia, dizziness, gait impairment, movement disorders, demyelinating disorders, infections of the nervous system. Her practice is open to different treatment options including non-pharmacologic agents and treatments in addition to conventional pharmaceutic agents. Lately, special interests include managing neurological sequelae from COVID infection.
She completed Internship at the University of Virginia. She finished Neurology Residency serving as Chief Resident at the University of Vermont. She trained in a 2-year Fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at the University of Rochester. She has published in the scientific journal Epilepsia (nee Moreno). She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Virginia supported by an NIH-NIDDK grant where she studied the effect of mitogen-activating protein kinase and its effect on the bovine adrenal glomerulosa.
Dr. Thornley worked the majority of her career in New York, New York at the St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai West), Harlem Hospital Center (where she was once the sole employed hospital neurologist of a busy urban hospital filling a critical need for neurologists) and was in private practice. She held the position as Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia University College of Surgeons and Physicians. She taught medical residents in the hospitals where she held the position as a Neurology Attending as well as medical students and residents from Columbia University who rotated in Harlem Hospital. She reads EEG’s, 72-hour ambulatory EEG’s and long-term video EEG monitoring. She finds satisfaction in counseling patients, especially those with complicated disorders.
As evident in her positions and clinical experience, Dr. Thornley is committed to giving only the highest quality of care as well as keeping abreast of the current literature.