Sleep and Nerve Providers
Dr. Dihenia is a board certified neurologist that has served the residents
of the South Plains since 1997. Dr. Dihenia and his team function as the
Covenant Children's Sleep and Neurology Center located at 3815 23rd Street.
Dr. Dihenia earned his M.D. from the University Of Illinois College Of
Medicine in Urbana-Champagne, Illinois. He completed a Fellowship in Sleep
Disorders and Neurophysiology and a Residency in Neurology at Emory University
School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He also completed an Internship
in Internal Medicine at University of Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dr. Dihenia is board certified in three specialties: Neurology by the American
Board of Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders by the American Academy of Sleep
Medicine, and the Subspecialty of Neuroimaging by the United Council for
Neurologic Subspecialties.
Dr. Dihenia is actively involved with the American Academy of Neurology,
American Medical Association, and American Sleep Disorder Association.
Academically, he serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Neurology
for the Texas Tech Health Science Center School of Medicine. Dr. Dihenia
is currently participating in clinical research studies on multiple sclerosis,
as well as strokes. He is doing phase 2 and phase 3 research in these
different neurological diseases.
The Covenant Children's Sleep and Neurology Center is home to a six-bed
sleep lab where Dr. Dihenia’s team is able to perform Sleep Studies
to ensure proper diagnosis of various sleep disorders.
In addition to diagnosing sleep studies, Dihenia and his team are able
to perform neurophysiology testing at the center. They can perform EMG/nerve
conduction studies patients.