Neura members can now hold video appointments with Trevor Wright, NP. If you'd like to book an appointment, start your Neura trial membership today!

‍Quick overview

Experience: Over ten years in neurology and neurosurgery

Approach: Patient-first care with compassionate listening

Specialty: General neurology (treats many different neurological conditions)

Meet Trevor Wright, APRN, FNP-BC: Neura Health’s General Neurology NP & Patient Advocate

‍At Neura Health, we understand the incredible and disabling impact your neurological symptoms can have on your life, leaving you searching for answers, hope, and a plan. That’s why we’re delighted to introduce Trevor Wright, APRN, FNP-BC.

Trevor has worked in neurology and neurosurgery for over ten years, and he’s known for his patient-first approach. Trevor doesn’t just treat symptoms – he truly sees and cares about you as a person.

Trevor’s approach to compassionate care came from helping his own family members through devastating illness, so he knows how scary it can be when something doesn’t feel right. He’s not going to question your concern about memory changes, pain, or tingling; instead, he will listen and believe your experience.

His goal is simple: Let’s collaborate, let’s figure this out. 

No matter the situation, Trevor combines his expertise with a compassionate care philosophy that will always put you first.

‍

A Personal Calling to Neurology

Trevor’s interest in neurology began when his uncle was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Witnessing his treatment firsthand inspired Trevor to pursue a career in neurological care. He eventually found himself working on the very neurology floor where his uncle had been a patient.

This full-circle moment deepened Trevor’s interest and understanding of both the medical and emotional sides of neurological care. Trevor earned his master’s in Advanced Practice Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and has spent the past decade in community-based neurology clinics, gaining extensive experience in both common and rare neurological conditions.

‍

A Passion for General Neurology

‍While many providers focus on a subspecialty, Trevor is proud to be a generalist in neurology.

But it’s his passion for caring for a variety of neurological conditions that makes him so valuable to patients who may have more complex or difficult-to-diagnose conditions. Like our other general neurology providers, Trevor’s compassionate approach guides him in helping patients who might typically be misdiagnosed or fall through the cracks.

Trevor’s always there, ready to listen and collaborate. He’s thorough and always considers a plan that is personalized to your life, not just your diagnosis.

‍

A Thoughtful, Evidence-Based Care Philosophy

‍What makes Trevor’s care even more valuable is that he combines evidence-based medicine with his sincerity and empathy, always using the latest research to guide treatment. But no matter what, he will continue to listen to and learn from his patients: “I do truly want to treat each patient like I would want my own family or friends to be treated,” he shares.

Trevor takes the time to explain treatment options. He tailors care to the individual, and he never loses sight of the person behind the symptoms.

Advocacy as a Core Principle

‍For Trevor, advocacy is a core principle of his practice. “I think that advocacy is vital,” he explains, noting that our complex healthcare system is difficult to navigate, including for providers: 

“As a healthcare provider, I have a difficult time navigating it for myself, for my friends and family. As a provider, I think it is vital to partner with patients and be their advocate."

This is especially important in neurology, where patients often cannot advocate for themselves due to cognitive impairments or communication difficulties due to strokes or other neurological impairments. “You really need to be their voice,” Trevor says. “You need to engage with their caregivers, and their friends and family, so that this person, who has, [...] suffered this [communication] loss, can get the best care possible.”

Trevor is particularly passionate about stroke care and dementia support. He’s been involved in patient and family support groups for stroke survivors, recognizing how this post-stroke recovery touches many lives.

With dementia, he sees promising possibilities ahead: “I think that we're on the cusp of a lot of important breakthroughs, and that will revolutionize and change the treatment plans for patients. But those kinds of breakthroughs and progress require a lot of money, support, and attention.”

Get Started with Trevor Wright at Neura Health‍

If you’re looking for a neurology provider who always collaborates and communicates, Trevor Wright treats:

• Memory
• TBI and persistent post-concussive symptoms 
• Stroke
• Tremor
• Undiagnosed, and other neurological conditions

and is now accepting virtual appointments through Neura Health.

You don’t even have to leave your home to see him! You can schedule a Zoom appointment, where he will collaborate with you, help you understand what’s happening, and develop a plan to improve your quality of life.

Schedule a Virtual Consultation

‍Take control of your neurological health today. Book an appointment with Trevor to receive personalized care from a leading neurology specialist.

Book a visit today and discover how he can help you manage cognitive changes, nerve pain, and chronic symptoms with expertise and empathy.

‍

Video Transcript:

 My name is Trevor Wright, and I'm a nurse practitioner. I work with Neura Health, and I've been in neurology or neurosurgery for the last 10 years or so.

‍

What is your professional background?

I started as a bedside nurse working on a neurology, neurosurgery unit, and really what prompted that was that I had an uncle who was suffering from a brain tumor at the time, and so that first got me interested in neurology, and I ended up working on the floors that he was treated on. Then, I went back to school for Advanced Practice Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, and carried that passion for neurology with me through my education. Then, as I was looking for my first roles, I worked in essentially community neurology for the last seven years.

‍

What is your special interest within your specific field?

Within a specialty, oftentimes, a lot of providers like to subspecialize into a very specific focus. I really like being more of a generalist. So, I enjoy the whole spectrum of neurology, but my particular interest in a lot of my work with Neura revolves around treatment of dementia disorders, including things like mild cognitive impairment, different types and causes of dizziness, different types and causes of tremors, and then different nerve pains and altered sensations.

‍

What’s your approach to treating patients?

My philosophy of care and my approach to treating patients are really two-fold. The first is to practice evidence-based medicine. I think that there's a wealth of knowledge, and it's important to draw on that knowledge to make the most informed decisions in partnership with patients. Now, with that being said, there's also a level of the art and the science of medicine, so there's that art as well, that intuition that comes from years of experience and time, and then the other component of my approach to care is just being patient-first and patient-centered. I do truly want to treat each patient like I would want my own family or friends to be treated, and that really motivates me in what I do.

I think that, unfortunately, in different aspects of healthcare, sometimes we lose touch, or lose grip on that patient-first approach, and I think that that's something that Neura does well.

‍

What is your POV on patient-first care?

I think we at Neura try embody a patient first, patient-centered approach to care,  and I mean, if you ask most healthcare providers why they initially got into it in the first place, it's to help people, right, and somewhere along the way, because of the broken systems that we have, and all the challenges, we certainly can lose touch of that, and it's certainly something that I need to be satisfied in my career, but I also, when I interact with the healthcare system, that's exactly what I expect, and what I want as well. So, really keeping first things first, and that is that we are in the practice of helping people to alleviate suffering, to improve their quality of life, to optimize their wellness.

‍

Do you have a chronic condition, or does someone close to you have a chronic condition?

While I don't have any chronic conditions, I certainly have lots of friends and family who have been touched by chronic or even terminal illness. Those experiences and stories stay with me and are part of why I am so empathetic towards patients. 

I have a really relevant one that I have worked with a colleague who was in the office setting, and she really suffered from debilitating migraine. Migraine is something that I've treated for years, and I don't think that I fully understood how debilitating they could be until I saw how often they really interfered with her quality of life, having to leave work, miss work. From a, I guess business standpoint, that's a lot of lost productivity, so it's really hard to manage that, but from a human standpoint, when I I saw that this person who was a colleague and a friend, right, had no vacations, had no ability to do anything other than work, and then miss work because of her migraine, and despite so much that she had tried, she really struggled to make a lot of progress for long periods of time, and then had periods where she had a lot more migraine freedom. So that gave me a whole new appreciation and perspective of what a patient goes through, and how you can easily dismiss something like oh, it's just a bad headache, like you know, get on with it, but you realize how much it really is disabling.

‍

Why is advocacy important in healthcare?

I think that advocacy is vital for a few reasons. One, we have a really complex health system that's hard to navigate. As a healthcare provider, I have a difficult time navigating it for myself, for my friends and family, and so as a provider, partnering with patients and being their advocate, I think, is vital.

Another aspect that is unique to neurology is that many of the conditions that we treat, whether someone has a cognitive impairment and cannot advocate for themselves, or has suffered a stroke, and has lost the ability to communicate to some degree, you really need to be their voice. You really need to engage with their caregivers, and their friends and family, so that this person, who has, you know, suffered this loss, can get the best care possible.

What advocacy groups do you feel passionately about?

There are a few groups that I feel particularly passionate about. One is certainly stroke care. I've done some really high-level stroke care in the past, and that is a patient population that I really feel passionate about. It's a condition that's gonna affect and touch a lot of different people's lives, and most people's family knows someone who has suffered a stroke, and the sort of loss of function that can come along with that.

So I've been involved in patient and family support groups for stroke, and I also feel passionate about advocacy and support of dementia. Dementia is one area of neurology that has a lot of opportunities still for improved evaluation and treatment, and I think that we're on the cusp of a lot of important breakthroughs, and that will really revolutionize and change the treatment plans for patients. But those kinds of breakthroughs and progress require a lot of money, support, and attention, and so I really am a proponent of keeping the attention there.

‍