Clinical Center for Multiple Sclerosis - UT Southwestern, Dallas TX

Love me some UTSW MS center! Was with a previous Neurologist and had to let her go for personal reasons and than found Dr. Shanan Munoz. She is very sweet professional and encouraging. Her nurse Danielle is a sweetheart and NP Crystal is absolutely wonderful and very knowledgeable about MS.i finally feel comfortable and feel optimistic for my future with this devastating illness. Phenomenal staff and place! 100x stars!

After seeing several Drs, Dr Akuda diagnosed MS and prescribed medication that halted years of debilitating attacks. I have regained most of what I lost since then 5 yrs ago. I also recently met someone Dr Akuda helped heal from major paralysis to now almost no symptoms!

While he was the only doctor to figure out the problem that had disabled me for four years, I still have to give him an awful rating. In the beginning, i was really happy because i had hope that things could get better. Someone had finally figured out what was wrong with me. I drove three hours round trip, to see this doctor, because i trusted him.

The treatment is a combination of physical therapy, and anti-depressants. They wrote me the prescription, i had interactions, so they asked me to come back in to try a different kind. When I came back in, they had me take a depression questionnaire and didn't like my answers. They had me talk to a social worker who kept trying to convince me to check myself into a mental hospital. Finally, after talking to the nurse for a short while, they decided I was too depressed, for anti-depressants. They were concerned because antidepressants raise suicidal tendencies in some patients. They told me to see a psychiatrist to get my depression under control, and then come back.

Those pills would have been the start of me getting my life back, and they told me no. I was depressed because I have -no- quality of life, due to this condition. I've barely left the house in four years. Just walking around the house makes me dizzy and sick, forget normal things like driving or going to a grocery store. That medication would've killed two birds with one stone, but they were too concerned with a possible legal liability, to help me. It was devastating. I will never answer another depression questionnaire at a doctors office, ever again. I will never tell the truth about how I'm doing emotionally, to a doctor, ever again.

This sequence of events made me realize they don't care about their patients, just legal liability. No thank you.

Has just gone down hill in the last several yrs. The halls used to be bustling with Drs. Have been a patient here since it was created. What a dream Dr. Frohman had when he put it together. He was my dr. For 15 yrs. Was in a clinical trial in the early 2000's if a dr didnt show another would step in worked as a team, last trial I completed I was asked to come back the next day to see the dr several times. Bad way to treat volunteers. My last appt with Frohman they told me at checkout that he was leaving, they just did the same with my next Dr. Guess they dont want you to thank them for yrs of a dr. Patient relationship. The PA Diana Logan is awesome and very thorough. Wished I could make her my new Dr. Just recieved a letter to call them to be assigned a new Dr. Would have been nice to do it and discuss with my dr. At last appt. DFW would sure be a great place for a MS clinic like this was in the past. Except not in a university setting, just a practice where drs main job was seeing patients

Unfortunate experience with this group. Went in 10 years ago with CNS lesions and multiple symptoms. They study it for a while and tell me no MS and sent me home. I went about my business and lo and behold, 10 years later, diagnosed with MS. I can't recommend this group based on my negative experience.

Dr Okuda was the rudest Dr I have ever had the misfortune of meeting will never walk in that building again have had misdiagnosis from one Dr there then made the mistake of once again going there to see a new Dr with definite proof of diagnosis and found myself wondering if I was really talking to a Dr