Jose Javier Provencio, MD, FCCM, FAAN, FNCS

Louise Nerancy Professor in Neurology

Medical Director of the Nerancy Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
Division Head, Hospital Medicine Division, Department of Neurology
 

Dr.  Jose Javier Provencio is the Director of the Nerancy Neurological Intensive Care Unit and a translational researcher in the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia.  He received his medical degree in 1993 from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and completed residencies in neurology and internal medicine, medical and neurological critical care at the University of Virginia.

Nationally, Dr. Provencio serves on the Council of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM).  He is the co-chair of the Grants subcommittee of the Neurocritical Care Research Central and on the steering committee of the Curing Coma Campaign of the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS).  He serves on the organizing committee for the SCCM Multiprofessional Critical Care Review course and on the editorial board of the CHEST SEEK Critical Care Medicine Self-Education and Evaluation of Knowledge Review series.

Dr. Provencio is the Division Head of the Hospital Medicine Division of the Neurology department that includes the ICU and Hospitalist Neurologists, and the medical director of the Nerancy Neuroscience Intensive Care unit and the Neurointermediate Care unit.  His laboratory studies the inflammatory underpinnings of acute brain injuries (particularly aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage), and, with his collaborators, his lab investigates the role of meningeal neutrophils in the cognitive function of the brain.

He is married with three children and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.