--but my sense is that despite the fact that Dr. Dyck, who wrote a well-known neuropathy textbook and published a number of important papers, works out of there, I'd pass up Mayo in favor of Hopkins if I had a choice, especially as regards small-fiber neuropathy.

This belief comes from accumulating the experiences of a number of people who went to either on this and other boards--Mayo does not do skin biopsy for small-fiber intraepidermal nerve fiber measurement (the current regime there doesn't seem to believe in it) whereas Hopkins pioneered the procedure (many of the names on the original papers about it from the 90's are Hopkins docs), and I do get the impression that the neuros there are more interested in expanding the boundaries of the knowledge about this particular type of neuropathy, examining the gluten, vasculitic, and nerve autoantibody angles.

Both Mayo and Hopkins seem to do a good job coordinating with other medical specialists and bringing them in to the investigation, as do Massachusetts General in Boston, the Jack Miller Center in Chicago, and the Cornell-Weill Center in NYC.