Josh Duckworth

Josh Duckworth is a neurologist at Nuvo Med, where he practices integrative neurology and neurocritical care medicine. His clinical focus includes traumatic brain injury, migraine and headache conditions, peripheral nerve injuries, memory concerns including dementias, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, peripheral neuropathy and stroke. His focus also includes botulinum toxin (Botox) therapy.

He is a retired physician of the United States Navy Medical Corps. Earlier, he worked as a neurologist and neurointensivist at the NATO Role III Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He previously served as medical director of the Warrior Recovery Center and the Concussion Specialty Care Center, and of the Defense Brain Injury Center at Naval Medical Center San Diego and the Naval Office of Neurotrauma. His academic appointments have been at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, University of California San Diego, George Washington University and Yale University. He co-authored the Emergency Neurological Life Support guidelines on intracranial hypertension and brain herniation.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from California State University, Sonoma and a Doctor of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. His training includes an internship at Naval Medical Center San Diego, a neurology residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center, and a fellowship in neurocritical care at Johns Hopkins Hospital.