Jon S Poling, MD - Royston

Dr. Jon Poling is a Board Certified neurologist practicing with Athens Neurology since 2001 after he completed his Residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. For his medical and graduate training, he was granted a full medical-scientist scholarship to the Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. His dual MD and PhD degrees were simultaneously granted in 1997 with his doctoral studies involving the electrophysiologic study of ion channels found in living neural membranes. This was completed in partnership between the Georgetown Department of Physiology/Biophysics and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1995, he was granted an NIH scholarship to attend the 1995 Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory to further his studies in Neurobiology.