About

It didn’t take me long as a physician-scientist to realize that patients are the best teachers. My job is connecting that clinical experience with research to make progress understanding and treating neurological disorders. This work is a team sport: the best progress happens when interdisciplinary academic teams have strong authentic ties to both the patient/family communities and our colleagues in and out of academia.

Clinical and Research Interests

• Clinical and translational research in movement disorders with a special interest in genetically based therapeutics.
• Advancing interdisciplinary care in movement disorders, particularly Huntington disease, tremor, dystonia, ataxia, Parkinson disease and parkinsonisms.
• Interaction of phenotypes and genetic risks in neurodegenerative disorders.
• Impact of essential tremor phenotyping on progress in clinical care and genetic risk factor discovery.
• Building holistic transdisciplinary care resources integrated across the full lifespan for patients and families affected by neurogenetic disorders.
• Making UNC research teams and North Carolina patient communities active drivers of the latest genetic therapeutic clinical trials.