My research is primarily focused on studying patients with familial or suspected genetic movement disorders, with the goal of identifying novel disease-associated genes responsible for Parkinson’s disease, dystonia or other movement disorders. Additionally, combining genetics and in vivo and in vitro models of movement disorders, I am investigating the molecular pathophysiological mechanisms of these disorders.

I have an outpatient clinical presence downtown where I run the movement disorder genetics clinic as well as see and treat general movement disorders patients, including Parkinson’s disease and other atypical parkinsonism, dystonia, tremor, chorea and other movement disorders.