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Clinical Services

The Movement Disorders Division provides comprehensive care for movement disorders of all types. Our Department is designated as both a Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence and a Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence.

In addition to the General Movement Disorders Clinic, we have the following specialty clinics within our Division:

Ataxia Clinic: Evaluation and management of patients with ataxia. Director Annie Killoran.

Botox Clinic: Treatment of patients with dystonia, spasticity and other movement disorders.

DBS Clinic: Evaluation of patients with movement disorders for possible placement of deep brain stimulator and continuing programming of DBS. Director Teri Thomsen.

DLB Clinic: Multi-disciplinary clinic for the evaluation and management of patient with Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Directors Georgina Aldridge and Qiang (Johnson) Zhang.

Huntington’s Disease Clinic: Multi-disciplinary clinic for the evaluation and management of patients with HD. Directors John Kamholz and Peg Nopoulos.

Parkinson’s Disease Multi-Disciplinary Clinic: Multi-disciplinary clinic for evaluation and management of patients with advanced PD. Director Kumar Narayanan.

Palliative Care Clinic: Multi-disciplinary clinic for treatment of patients with life limiting neurological illnesses. Director Annie Killoran.