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Trainee Date Residency Current Position
Pinky Agarwal 2002-2003 Seton Hall University Attending Neurologist Medical Director Booth Gardner ParkinsonŐs Care Center Evergreen Medical Center, Kirkland, WA
Roy Alcalay 2007-2010 Massachusetts General Hospital Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
David Arkadir 2011-2013 Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Assistant Professor, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Yvette Bordelon  2003-2004 Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Susan B. Bressman 1981–1983 Neurological Institute Chair, Alan and Barbara Mirken Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Interim Chair, Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Roosevelt, New York, NY
Mitchell Brin 1983–1986 Neurological Institute Sr.vice-president and Chief Scientific Officer, Allergan Pharmaceuticals
Nina Browner 2006-2008 Cleveland Clinic Assistant Professor, Director of Movement Disorders, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
 Robert E. Burke 1980–1982  Neurological Institute DECEASED
Jean Lud Cadet 1987 National Institutes of Health Chief, Molecular Neuropsychiatry Research Branch,  National Institute of Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD
Helen Chang 1997-1999 Neurological Institute Jewish Guild Healthcare, New York, NY
Victoria Chang 2006-2008 Brown University Butler Hospital, Providence, RI
Anjan Chatterjee 2001‑2003 Long Island Jewish Med. Center  CEO at VR1 Inc.,New York, NY
Sylvain Chouinard 1995‑1997 University of Montreal Assistant Professor, University of Montreal, Canada
Cathy Chuang  1999‑2001 Neurological Institute Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Neurology Attending at Jacobi Medical Center and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Oren Cohen 2000‑2002 Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Faculty, Tel Aviv University Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Abigail Collins 2006-2008 University of California, San Francisco Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, CO; Director of Pediatric Movement Disorders
Anne Constantino 2000‑2002 Cornell Medical Center Department of Neurology, Pasquerilla Healthcare Center (PHC), Washington, DC
Anna Conti 2005-2007 Washington University in St. Louis  Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, MO
Scott Cooper 1999‑6/2001 Neurological Institute Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Director of Deep Brain Stimulation Physiology
Kristina Dahl 1987‑ 1989 Duke University School of Medicine RETIRED
Arif Dalvi 1996-1997 University of Cincinnati West Palm Beach Neuroscience Institute, West Palm Beach, FL
William Dauer 1996-1998 Neurological Institute  Elinore Levine Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ; Director of Movement Disorders Division 
Nancy Diaz 2008-2010 SUNY Stony Brook Private practice and Clinical Assistant Professor at Temple/ St Luke's Medical School, Bethlehem, PA
Rolando Diaz‑Olivo 1988‑1990 University of Puerto Rico Associate Professor of Medicine at Universidad Central del Caribe, PR
Enrico Fazzini  1987‑1989 Boston University School of Medicine Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Blair Ford 1992‑1994 Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Professor, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Director of Deep Brain Stimulation surgery; director of residency training, New York, NY
Mark Forrest Gordon 1989‑1991 SUNY Stony Brook Long Island‑Jewish Med. Center; now Director, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs
General Medicine / Central Nervous Systems & Established  Products
Boehringer-Engleheim in CT
Joseph Friedman 1979-1982 (resident) Neurological Institute Professor of Neurology at Brown University 
Andrzej Friedman 1984–1985 University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Professor and Head, Department of Neurology
Faculty of Health Science
Medical University of Warsaw
Steven Frucht 1997-1999 Cornell University  Professor, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Director of Movement Disorders
Leonardo Fugoso 1998-2000 SUNY Downstate Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, NY
Nir Giladi 1989‑1991 Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel Chairman of Neurology, Tel Aviv University, Israel, The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Rebecca Gilbert 2007-2009 Neurological Institute Assistant Professor, New York University; now Director of Movement Disorders Fellowship Program 
Stephen Gollomp  1980-1981 Boston University  Louis & Elizabeth Pipi Endowed Chair in Neurology at Lankenau Medical Center
Paul H. Gordon 1999‑2000 Neurological Institute Health and Human Services, Indian Reservations in the Southwest
Paul E. Greene 1985‑1988 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Mount Sinai Med School
Amrit Grewal 2004-2005 University of Virginia Neurology Group of Bergen County
Deepak Gupta 2016-2018 University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio Assistant Professor atn Uniersity of Vermont Medical Center
Elizabeth Haberfeld 2008-2010 Neurological Institute Assistant Professor of Neurology, Director of Movement Disorders, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Devin Hall Devin Hall 2016-2018 Western University in London, Ontario, Canada McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada                             
Era Hanspal 2009-2011 Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia Assistant Professor, Albany Medical College
David Hardesty 2002-2005 University of New Mexico Practice in Pismo Beach, CA
Mohammed N. Hassan 1981- 1983 University of Ottawa RETIRED
Claire Henchcliffe 2001‑2003 Neurological Institute Associate Professor, Cornell University; Vice Chair for Clinical Research 
Wayne Hening 1982–1984 Neurological Institute DECEASED
Christopher Hess 2010-2013 Neurological Institute Assistant Professor, Univ of Florida
Shu-Ching (Gene) Hu 2005-2007 University of  Washington University of  Washington
Ann Hunt 1989-1991 Albert Einstein Medical College Massachusetts General Hospital
Joyce Ilson 1980-1983       Neurological Institute Neuro-ophthalmologist, New York School of Optometry
Krithi Irmady 2017-2020 Yale University Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
David Jaeger 2003-2004 Yale University Private Practice, Rockland County, NY 
Samay Jain 2004-2006 Cleveland Clinic Assistant Professor and Clinical Director or Movement Disorders, University of Pittsburgh; 
Zygmunt Jamrozic 1987‑1988 University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Medical University of Warsaw, POLAND
Joseph Jankovic   1974-1977  Neurological Institute Professor of Neurology, Distinguished Chair in Movement Disorders, Director, Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic at Baylor College of Medicine
Danna Jennings 1996-1998 Boston University  Institute of Neurodegenerative Disorders, New Haven, CT
Beom Jeon 199‑1993 University of Minnesota Chairman of Neurology, National University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
De‑Hua Jiang 1980-1982    Tianjin School of Medicine -People's Republic of China   DECEASED
Un Jung Kang 1986‑1988 Neurological Institute Head of Mov Disorders at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology
Meir Kestenbaum 2013-2015 Tel Aviv University, Israel Tel Aviv University, Israel
Christine Kim 2016-2018 Columbia University Irving Medical Center Medical Center Yale-New Haven Health System Medical Staff
Vladimir Kostic 1989‑1990 University of Belgrade,Yugoslavia Director Neurological Institute, Belgrade Medical School
Sheng-Han Kuo 2009-2012 Baylor College of Medicine Assistant Professor Of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Medical Center
Monica Kurtis 2006-2008 University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain Movement Disorders Unit Director,Neurology Department,Hospital Ruber Internacional,Madrid, Spain 
Kimberly Kwei Kimberly Kwei 2018 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai NY Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Julie Leegwater-Kim 2004-2006 Massachusetts General Hospital Lahey Clinic, Boston; Director of its DBS program
Oren Levy 2007-2010 Cornell University  
Chih-Chun (Charles) Lin 2019-present Houston Methodist Hospital Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center 
Chi-Ying (Roy) Lin 2019-present Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/The Mount Sinai Hospital Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center 
Steven Lo 2004-2006 University of Chicago Professor, Georgetown University
Elan Louis 1993‑1995 Neurological Institute Chief, Division of Movement Disorders, Professor of Neurology at Yale University 
Naomi Lubarr 2005-2007 Neurological Institute Beth Israel, New York
Lan Luo 2015-2018 Baylor College of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department of Neurology- Movement Disorders
Timothy Lynch 1993‑1995 Neurological Institute Professor, Dublin, Ireland; Founder, Dublin Neurological Institute
Judy MacDonald 2000‑2003 Massachusetts General Hospital Rockefeller University
RubŽn Martinez 2012-2013 National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery ŇManuel Velasco Su‡rezÓ; Mexico City, MEXICO National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Mexico City, Mexico
Leila Maybodi 2008-2009 Univ. of  Cincinnati private practice, Olney, MD
Pietro Mazzoni 1999‑2001 Neurological Institute Washington Univ- Dept of Neurology
Maria‑Angeles Mena 1986-1987 University of Madrid, Spain Professor, University of Madrid
Shabbir Merchant 2015-2016 Resident Physician at Drexel University College of Medicine/Hahnemann University Hospital  
Chris Min 2010 Neurological Institute Director, Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Merck Sharpe & Dohme
Leila Montaser Kouhsari 2018 Mount Sinai Hospital Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Uday Muthane 1992‑1994 National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Science, Bangalore, India Director of ParkinsonŐs and Ageing Research Foundation, Bangalore, India
Martin Niethammer 2006-2008 North Shore University Hospital Assistant Professor of Neurology, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Attending Neurologist, North Shore University Hospital and Harvey Cushing Institute of Neuroscience
Melissa Nirenberg 2002-2005 University of California, San Francisco  Medical Director, New York Stem Cell Foundation
Lynda Nwabuobi 2018 New York Unversity School of Medicine, NY Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Torbjoern Nygaard 1986‑1989 Rutgers Univ. School of Medicine VA Hospital, East Orange, NJ; Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology, UMDNJ
Sarah O'Shea 2016-2019 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Senior Resident Administrative Fellow Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Toni Pearson 2007-2010 Neurological Institute Associate Professor Neurology Washington University School of Medicine
Efrain Perez‑Vargas 1992‑1994 University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
Giselle Petzinger 1993‑1995 Yale University Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Gianni Pezzoli 1986-1987 University of Milano, Italy Head, Grigoni Fdn for Parkinson Research and Head, World Parkinson Association
Panida Piboolnurak 2001‑2004 Cornell Medical Center Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience
Roser Pons 2000‑2001 Neurological Institute Associate Professor, Medical School University of the Athens, Athens, Greece
Carlos Portera-Cailliau 2001‑2004 Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor, Dept of Neurology, UCLA
Kathleen Poston 2006-2008 University of California, San Francisco Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Markos Poulopoulos 2009-2011 University of Connecticut Eastern Maine Medical Center Neurology, Bangor, Maine
Michael Pourfar 2003-2005 Mount Sinai Medical Center recently appointed Associate Professor, NYU and Director of its DBS program
Serge Przedborski 1989‑1991 University of Brussels, Belgium Page and William Black Professor of Neurology (in Pathology and Cell Biology and Neuroscience), Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Seth Pullman, MD 1984‑1986 Columbia University Irving Medical Center Irving Medical Center Professor of Neurology at CUMC
Sara Radmard  2020-present  University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow, Dept Neurology Movmt Disorders, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Pushp Raj Kapoor 1995‑1996 SUNY Buffalo Minneapolis Neuroscience Institute
Avinoam Reches  1980-1982  Hadassah Medical Center  Jerusalem, Israel      Head of Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, Hadassah, Jerusalem
Daphne Robakis 2013-2015 Boston University Assistant Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine
John D. Rogers 1991‑1992 Neurological Institute Medical Advisor, Allergan Pharmaceuticals
Michael Rotstein 2007-2010 Hadassah Medical Center  Jerusalem, Israel      Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology Unit, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University; Director of Pediatric Movement Disorders
Alice Rusk 1995‑1996 Cornell University Greenwich Hospital & Stamford Hospital
David Rydz 2013-2014 Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA Frasier Health Care, Canada
Miran Salgado   1994‑1995 SUNY Downstate NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn NY
Maria Sangiorgio 1998-2001 University of Rochester Private practice in Danbury, CT
Rachel Saunders‑Pullman 1996-1997 Neurological Institute Beth Israel Med. Center, New York, NY; Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Med
Daniel Schneider 2009-2011 University of Massachusetts Asst Prof, University of Medical and Dentistry of New Jersey
William Lawrence Severt 2004-2006 Beth Israel Medical Center New York Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | MSSM á Department of Neurology
Husain Shaath 2013-2015 King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaA; and Kingdom of Bahrain Overlook Hospital, NJ
Hiral Shah 2013-2015 Columbia University Irving Medical Center Medical Center Assitant Professor of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Heidi Shale 1985-1987 Washington University, St. Louis  Kaiser-Permamente, Walnut Creek, CA
Madeleine Sharp 2012-2016 Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA Assistant Professor, McGill Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery,
Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University Health Centre
Alexander Shtilbans 2010-2011 Mount Sinai Medical Center Assistant Professor of Neurology
Weill Cornell Medical College,Parkinson's Disease & Movement Disorders Institute, Assistant Attending, Department of Neurology
Hospital for Special Surgery
Miriam Sklerov  2014-2017 Columbia University Irving Medical Center Medical Center Assistant Professor of Neurology,  UNC Department of Neurology
Marie‑Helene St.‑Hillaire 1986-1987 Montreal Neurological Institute  Associate Professor Boston University
Samer Tabbal 1997-1999 University of Arkansas  Professor at American Univ in Beirut (his home country).
Adrian Tan 1994‑1995 University of Singapore Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, Singapore
Sirinan Tazen 2011-2013 West Virginia University  Kaiser-Permanente, Bakersfield, CA
Mary Ann Thenganatt 2010-2012 Neurological Institute Assistant Professor of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Parkinson's Diseas Center and Movement Disorders Clinic
Dominic Thyagarajan 1996-1997 Melbourne University, Australia  Prof of Neuroscience at Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia
Daniel Togasaki    1993‑1996 Neurological Institute Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Southern Calif.
Michael Traub 1983–1984 University of London DECEASED
Richard Trosch 1990‑1991 Yale University The Parkinson's and Movement Disorder Center, Millenium Medical Group, Southfield, MI
Daniel D.Truong 1985-1987 University of South Carolina Parkinson Disease and MovDisord Institute, Fountain Valley, CA; 
Daryl Victor 2001‑2003 Albert Einstein Med. College Maimonides Medical Center
Angel Vinuela 2014-2015 University of Puerto Rico Assistant Professor of Neurology, Puerto Rico
Tuhin Virmani 2011-2013 Washington Univ. St. Louis Assistant Professor, Univ of Arkansas
Lee Voulters 1984-1985 University of Western, Ontario, Canada Clinical practice, Gulfport, MS
Arthur Walters 1982-1984 SUNY Downstate Medical School Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, co-pioneer investigator of restless legs syndrome; now Professor at Vanderbilt  
Katherine Widnell 2000‑2001 Johns Hopkins Med. Center Neurosciences Institute - Medical Center
Brenton Wright 2012-2014 Neurological Institute Neurologist, Assistant Professor of Neurosciences, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Stacy Wu 2003-2004 Neurological Institute  Otsuka Pharmaceuticals in New Jersey
Tao Xie 2009-2010 Emory University, Atlanta Assistant Professor, Director of Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic, University of Chicago 
Justo de Yebenes 1985-1987 University of Madrid, Spain RETIRED
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