The Division includes Drs. Rock Heyman and Galen Mitchell and has an extremely active outpatient clinical program that has earned awards for its excellence. The MS program is accredited as a MS Center by the National MS Society, recognizing comprehensive clinical, research, and educational programs. The division's nurses Marlene Boyd and Joy Anderson as well as Speech Pathologist Patricia Bednarik are board certified in MS care. The program includes comprehensive care for all aspects of care with close affiliations with many services at UPMC and throughout the region to meet the needs of people with MS at all levels of disease severity. The infusion center has expanded to meet the needs of patients on intravenous therapies. Many patients with other immunologic conditions such as Sjogren's syndrome or sarcoidosis involving the central nervous system are seen by this division in support of UPMC's regional physicians.

Division research continues and includes involvement in multi-center studies of combination therapy and also dosage alterations of interferon beta as well as continued safety studies of natalizumab. Additional studies of medications for management of MS symptoms also continue in development. Educational programs by division staff are directed towards people with MS, caregivers, allied health professionals, medical students, residents, and physicians. Division personnel frequently lecture to the numerous support groups throughout the region and often nationally