Overview
I am a Movement Disorders Neurologist and see patients at the Morreene Rd Clinic and at the Durham VA Medical Center.
Among the types of movement disorders patients that I see in clinic are individuals who have Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor, tics, chorea, dystonia, Huntington's disease, tardive movement disorders and Wilson's disease. I use botulinum toxin injections to treat selected patients afflicted with dystonia, tremors, and tics. I manage patients who have undergone deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor,and dystonia. In addition to managing patients who have movement disorders, I participate in a variety of clinical trials focussed on improving the management and treatment of Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and dystonia.
Key words: movement disorders, Parkinson's disease, tremors, tics, chorea, dystonia, botulinum toxin injections.
Among the types of movement disorders patients that I see in clinic are individuals who have Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor, tics, chorea, dystonia, Huntington's disease, tardive movement disorders and Wilson's disease. I use botulinum toxin injections to treat selected patients afflicted with dystonia, tremors, and tics. I manage patients who have undergone deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, Essential Tremor,and dystonia. In addition to managing patients who have movement disorders, I participate in a variety of clinical trials focussed on improving the management and treatment of Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and dystonia.
Key words: movement disorders, Parkinson's disease, tremors, tics, chorea, dystonia, botulinum toxin injections.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Neurology
·
2021 - Present
Neurology, Movement Disorders,
Neurology
Recent Publications
Automated Imaging Differentiation for Parkinsonism.
Journal Article JAMA Neurol · March 17, 2025 IMPORTANCE: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) paired with appropriate disease-specific machine learning holds promise for the clinical differentiation of Parkinson disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA) parkinsonian variant, and progressive supranuclea ... Full text Link to item CiteMotor network reorganization associated with rTMS-induced writing improvement in writer's cramp dystonia.
Journal Article Brain Stimul · 2025 BACKGROUND: Writer's cramp (WC) dystonia is an involuntary movement disorder with distributed abnormalities in the brain's motor network. Prior studies established the potential for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to either premotor cor ... Full text Link to item CiteMultimodal Retinal Imaging Classification for Parkinson's Disease Using a Convolutional Neural Network.
Journal Article Transl Vis Sci Technol · August 1, 2024 PURPOSE: Changes in retinal structure and microvasculature are connected to parallel changes in the brain. Two recent studies described machine learning algorithms trained on retinal images and quantitative data that identified Alzheimer's dementia and mil ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
A PHASE 3, MULTICENTER, OPEN-LABEL SAFETY STUDY TO EVALUATE THE LONG-TERM SAFETY AND TOLERABILITY OF SAGE-718 IN PARTICIPANTS WITH HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Sage Therapeutics · 2023 - 2026Web-based Automated Imaging Differentiation of Parkinsonism
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Florida · 2021 - 2026Huntington's Disease Society of America- Center of Excellence (Level 2)
Public ServicePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Huntington's Disease Society of America · 2023 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Miami ·
1990
M.D.
Duke University ·
1984
Ph.D.