Gary Rex Nelson

Gary Rex Nelson, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Eccles Primary Children's Outpatient Services Building

801-213-3599

Layton Parkway Clinic

Primary Children's Hospital Outpatient Services at Layton Hospital, Pediatric Neurology
801-213-3599

Pocatello Children's Clinic

208-232-1443

  • Dr. Gary Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Utah. He is a general child neurologist and sees patients with any neurological concerns. He has special interest in pediatric stroke, autoimmune and parainfectious neurological disease, quality improvement, and inpatient and critical care neurology.

    Dr. Nelson received his medical degree from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine after completing undergraduate training at Brigham Young University. He completed a Pediatrics residency and Pediatric Neurology fellowship at the University of Utah. He is board-certified in Neurology (with special qualification in Child Neurology).

    Specialties

  • Dr. Gary Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Utah. He is a general child neurologist and sees patients with any neurological concerns. He has special interest in pediatric stroke, autoimmune and parainfectious neurological disease, quality improvement, and inpatient and critical care neurology.

    Dr. Nelson received his medical degree from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine after completing undergraduate training at Brigham Young University. He completed a Pediatrics residency and Pediatric Neurology fellowship at the University of Utah. He is board-certified in Neurology (with special qualification in Child Neurology).

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Pediatrics -Primary

    Education history

    Fellowship Pediatric Neurology - University of Utah School of Medicine Fellow
    Categorical Pediatrics - University of Utah School of Medicine Resident
    Fellowship Drug Development and Design - National Institute of Health/National Institute on Aging, Drug Design and Development Section, Labor Predoctoral Fellow
    Medicine with Research and Teaching Distinction Tracks - University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine M.D.
    Undergraduate Major: Neuroscience; Minor: Analytic Thinking - Brigham Young University B.S.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Espinoza AC, Wright MA, Candee MS, Trandafir C, Nelson GR (2021). Child Neurology: Late-Onset Vitamin B6-Dependent Epilepsy Identified by Rapid Genome Sequencing. Neurology, 96(19), 911-914.
    2. Cortese MM, Kambhampati AK, Schuster JE, Alhinai Z, Nelson GR, Guzman Perez-Carrillo GJ, Vossough A, Smit MA, McKinstry RC, Zinkus T, Moore KR, Rogg JM, Candee MS, Sejvar JJ, Hopkins SE (2020). A ten-year retrospective evaluation of acute flaccid myelitis at 5 pediatric centers in the United States, 2005-2014. PLoS One, 15(2), e0228671.