{"id":277362,"date":"2026-03-31T12:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/dennis-fitzgerald-md\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:01:47","slug":"dennis-fitzgerald-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/dennis-fitzgerald-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dennis Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>El Dr. Dennis Fitzgerald es Doctor en Medicina por la Facultad de Medicina Donald y Barbara Zucker de la Universidad Hofstra\/Northwell de Hempstead, Nueva York. Complet\u00f3 su residencia en neurolog\u00eda y su especializaci\u00f3n en neurolog\u00eda cognitiva en el Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center de Boston.<\/p>\n<p>El camino del Dr. Fitzgerald hacia la neurolog\u00eda estuvo marcado por experiencias personales que despertaron en \u00e9l una profunda curiosidad por el cerebro y el comportamiento humano. Las p\u00e9rdidas tempranas en su familia le llevaron a buscar la comprensi\u00f3n de c\u00f3mo el cerebro influye en la vida que somos capaces de vivir. Estas experiencias formativas, combinadas con el ejemplo inspirador de su madre como madre soltera que criaba a tres hijos mientras trabajaba a tiempo completo como abogada, le inculcaron tanto la curiosidad cient\u00edfica como el compromiso con la atenci\u00f3n compasiva.<\/p>\n<p>Cree que lo primero que hay que hacer es conectar con los pacientes como personas. Sus citas comienzan con una conversaci\u00f3n abierta, en la que aprende sobre los antecedentes e intereses de los pacientes. \"Las visitas de seguimiento acaban siendo como ver a un viejo amigo\", se\u00f1ala. Este enfoque refuerza su compromiso de ayudar a cada paciente a superar su diagn\u00f3stico y tratamiento.<\/p>\n<p>Sus intereses cl\u00ednicos incluyen la neurolog\u00eda del comportamiento, con especial atenci\u00f3n a las enfermedades neurodegenerativas como el Alzheimer y la enfermedad de los cuerpos de Lewy. El Dr. Fitzgerald dedica tiempo a educar a los pacientes sobre sus enfermedades, explicando la neurociencia en t\u00e9rminos accesibles. \u00c9l cree que la comprensi\u00f3n transforma un diagn\u00f3stico intimidante en algo m\u00e1s manejable, capacitando a los pacientes y sus familias para navegar su viaje con mayor confianza.<\/p>\n<p>Fuera del trabajo, el Dr. Fitzgerald disfruta sobre todo pasando tiempo con su mujer y es tambi\u00e9n un \u00e1vido baterista que se inspira en maestros como Larnell Lewis y Dennis Chambers.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287810,"template":"","specialty":[148],"language":[],"keywords":[562,899,558,1332,862,891,314,315,556,1334,559,883,884,566,567,553,1333,554,563,564,900,1335,882,557,894,888,568,886,898,881,869,560,561,555],"address":[425],"class_list":["post-277362","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-neurology","keywords-adhd","keywords-aicd","keywords-alzheimers-disease","keywords-back-fusion","keywords-back-pain","keywords-brain-and-spine","keywords-brain-cancer","keywords-brain-tumor","keywords-concussion-management","keywords-corpectomy-stenosis","keywords-dementia","keywords-disc","keywords-disc-herniation","keywords-eeg","keywords-emg","keywords-head-ache","keywords-hydrocephalus-shunt","keywords-migrane","keywords-ms","keywords-multiple-sclerosis","keywords-neck-surgery","keywords-neuromuscular-disorders","keywords-neurosurgery","keywords-parkinsons-disease","keywords-sciatica","keywords-scoliosis","keywords-seizure","keywords-skull-tumor","keywords-spinal-stenosis","keywords-spine","keywords-spine-pain","keywords-stroke","keywords-tia","keywords-trigeminal-neuralgia","addresses-67_79"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dennis Fitzgerald MD - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/dennis-fitzgerald-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dennis Fitzgerald MD - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dennis Fitzgerald, MD earned his Doctor of Medicine from the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra\/Northwell University in Hempstead, New York. 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