Movement Disorders Team

Nina M. Browner, MD
Assistant Professor, Co-Director National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence
Clinical Director, Movement Disorders Center

• Dr. Browner's clinical interests focus on diagnosis and treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, including unusual movement disorders
• Dr. Browner sees patients on Monday afternoons, and full day on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the Neurology Clinic at the 1st floor of UNC Neuroscience Hospital.
• She conducts monthly Botulinum Toxin Clinic
• Her clinical research interests include movement disorders phenomenology, gait abnormalities in patients with Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism; functional MRI imaging in Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism, non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease
• She coordinates movement disorder video rounds for faculty, resident, and health care personnel. These rounds serve as a platform for discussion of movement disorders seen in clinic, helping establish a collaborative and educational environment for patient care and education. Dr. Browner also regularly teaches medical students and residents rotating in the Movement Disorders Center

Richard Murrow, MD
Associate Professor, Adult Neurology

• Dr. Murrow's clinical interests focus primarily on DBS therapy for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, which include pre-surgical evaluation for deep brain stimulation surgery, detailed microelectrode recordings in the operating room and post-surgical programming of the devices, while making concomitant medication adjustments
• Dr. Murrow sees patients on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays afternoon at the Neurology Clinic at the 1st floor of UNC Neuroscience Hospital (directions). He conducts microelctorde recording in the operating room on Mondays and Fridays.
• Dr. Murrow's research interests include mechanism of action and application of deep brain stimulation
• He conducts a monthly movement disorder Outreach Clinic in Pinehurst Neurology PA, Pinehurst, NC
• Dr. Murrow regularly teaches medical students and residents rotating in the Movement Disorders Center

Alexander I. Tröster, PhD
Professor, Co-Director National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence

• Dr. Tröster's clinical interests focus on movement disorders, cognitive and neuropsychological changes before and after deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease, the behavioral and quality of life outcomes of surgical and medical treatments for movement disorders, dementia, and amnesia.
• Dr. Tröster coordinates neuropsychological assessment of patients referred to the UNC Neurology department. He and his colleagues see patients daily in the Neurology Clinic. Dr. Tröster brings recognized expertise in cognitive and related aspects of Parkinson's disease, including caregiver coping and quality of life issues, to the Movement Disorders Center
• His research interests include cognition and emotion in movement disorders and dementias; Neuropsychological, neuropharmacological and genetic aspects of cognitive impairment in early Parkinson's disease and parkinsonian syndromes; Outcomes in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery for movement disorders, epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders
• Dr. Tröster was a member of the National Institutes of Health Workgroup on Cognition and Emotion in Parkinson disease and the Congress of Neurosurgeons/Movement Disorder Society Consensus Group on Deep Brain Stimulation. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific articles and chapters, edited a book on memory disorders, and serves on the editorial boards of five journals. Dr. Tröster is a member of the Parkinson Study group's Scientific Review Committee, a grant reviewer for numerous agencies, and serves on the advisory board of the Parkinson Association of the Carolinas. He is a past recipient of the National Academy of Neuropsychology's Award for Scientific Contributions to Clinical Neuropsychology.

Kirk Wilhelmsen, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Genetics and the Genome Center

• Dr. Wilhelmsen clinical interests include frontotemporal dementia, Huntington's disease and genetic consultations for patients with movement disorders
• Dr. Wilhelmsen's lab is engaged in the genetic mapping of susceptibility loci for complex neurological diseases and has been developing large-scale automated gene mapping technologies to facilitate these mapping efforts. The Wilhelmsen lab is applying these techniques to two projects: (1) the genetics of alcoholism and (2) positional cloning of the gene responsible for a family of disorders called frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17)
• Dr. Wilhelmsen is seeing patients monthly on the third Thursday of the month at the Neurology Clinic on the 1st floor od the UNC Neuroscience Hospital

Eldad Hadar, MD
Assistant Professor, UNC Neurosurgery

• Specialty: Functional neurosurgery including the surgical treatment of adult and pediatric epilepsy and the surgical treatment of movement disorders

Xuemei Huang, MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Adult Neurology

• Research Interests: Structural basis for Parkinson's Disease signs and symptoms; Etiologic factors in Parkinson's Disease

Angela Glover

• Administrative Assistance