Directors
Michael Okun, M.D.
Co-Director, Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration
Chair of Neurology
– Movement Disorders Neurology
– Deep Brain Stimulation
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Kelly Foote, M.D.
Co-Director, Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration
Professor of Neurosurgery
– Movement Disorders Neurosurgery
– Deep Brain Stimulation
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Nikolaus McFarland, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Movement Disorders Division of Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurology
– Atypical Parkinsonisms
– Huntington’s Disease
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Irene Malaty, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology
Medical Director, NPF Center of Excellence
– Parkinson Disease
– Tourette Syndrome
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A.J. Yarbrough, MBA, CPC
Assistant Director
Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration
– Health Administration
– Movement Disorders
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Melissa Himes, BA
Clinical ACU Manager
Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration
– Health Administration
– Movement Disorders
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Julie Segura, BA
Regulatory Coordinator
Movement Disorders Clinical Research
– Clinical Trials
– Movement Disorders
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Faculty & Fellows
Leonardo Almeida, M.D.
Assistant Professor
UF Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration
– Movement Disorders Neurology
– Deep Brain Stimulation
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Melissa J. Armstrong, M.D., MSc, FAAN
Associate Professor
Director, Mangurian Clinical-Research Center for Lewy Body & Parkinson’s Disease Dementia
– Lewy Body Disease
– PD Dementia
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Russell Bauer, PhD, ABPP
Professor
Department of Clinical & Health Psychology
– Alzheimer’s Disease
– Neuropyschology
Matt Beke, RDN, LDN
Clinical Dietitian
Food Science and Human Nutrition
– Nutrition
– Movement Disorders
Frank Bova, Ph.D., F.A.C.R., F.A.A.P.M.
Professor & Staff Physicist
Neurosurgery, Nuclear Engineering
– Stereotactic radiosurgery
– Computer guided neurosurgery
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Dawn Bowers, Ph.D.
Professor, Clinical & Health Psychology, Neurology
Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
– Emotional Disorders
– Neuropsychology
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Evangelos Christou, Ph.D.
Professor
Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
– Neural Control of Movement
– Aging
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Linda Cottler, Ph.D., MPH
Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Dean’s Professor of Epidemiology
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
– Parkinson Disease
– Healthcare improvement
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Paul Davenport, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Physiological Sciences
– Respiration
– Neurological disease
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Wissam Deeb, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration
– Movement Disorders
– Deep brain stimulation
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Meredith DeFranco, DPT
Physical Therapist
Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration
– Physical Therapy
– Movement Disorders
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Marcelo Febo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor; Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Director of Translational Research Imaging
– Brain Imaging
– Translational Neuroscience
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Benoit Giasson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor; Neuroscience
Investigator, CTRND and McKnight Brain Institute
– Parkinson Disease
– Alpha-Synuclein
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Todd Golde, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, McKnight Brain Institute
Professor, Neuroscience
– Parkinson Disease
– Alzheimer disease
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Aysegul Gunduz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
– Neurorehabilitation
– Electrocorticographic signals
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Chris Hass, Ph.D.
Professor & Graduate Coordinator
Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
– PD Disease Progression
– Locomotion and Balance
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Shelley Heaton, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Co-Director of the Pediatric Brain Injury Programs
– Tourette Syndrome
– Neuropsychology
Christopher Hess, M.D.
Director, Veterans Administration Parkinson’s Disease Consortium Center
North Florida/South Georgia VA Medical Center
Assistant Professor in Neurology
– Movement Disorders
– Neuroimaging
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Wei Hu, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, UF Health International Center
Assistant Professor in Neurology
– Telemedicine
– Neuromodulation Research
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Jack Judy, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and Engineering Technologies
– Nanoscale devices
– Biomedical applications
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Alison Kraus, PT, DPT, NCS
Physical Therapist
– Movement Disorders
– Exercise
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Shankar Kulkarni, Ph.D., MSPT
Physical Therapist
– Parkinson Disease
– Ataxia
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Yuqing Li, Ph.D.
Professor
Tyler’s Hope Center for Dystonia Research
– Translational Neuroscience
– Dystonia
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Kevin J. Otto, PhD
Biomedical Engineering
– Neural Engineering
– Deep Brain Stimulation
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Addie Patterson, D.O.
Department of Neurology
– Movement Disorders
– Deep Brain Stimulation
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Catherine Price, PhD
Clinical and Health Psychology, Anesthesiology
– Parkinsonisms
– Dementia
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Jose Principe, PhD
BellSouth Professor
Director of Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory
– Digital Signal Processing
– Brain Machine Interfaces
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Adolfo Ramirez-Zamora, MD
Associate Professor, Neurology
Director of Clinical Trials
– Clinical Trials
– Deep Brain Stimulation
Laura Ranum, PhD
Professor, Director of Center for NeuroGenetics
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
– Genetics
– Ataxia
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Steven Robicsek, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Director, Neuroanesthesiology Fellowship
– Neuroanesthesiology
– Medical Education
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Carley Rusch, MS, RDN, LDN
Clinical Dietitian
Food Science and Human Nutrition
– Nutrition
– Movement Disorders
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Markus Santoso, PhD
Assistant Professor
Digital Worlds Institute
– Virtual and Mixed Reality
– Exercise Science
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Heather Simpson, OTD, MOT, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist
Shands Rehab
– Tourette Syndrome
– Parkinson’s Disease
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S. H. Subramony, MD
Professor, Department of Neurology
Director, Neuromuscular Division
– Ataxia
– Neuromuscular Disease
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Nicole Tester, PhD, MOT, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist
UF Health Rehab
– Movement Disorders
– Multiple Sclerosis
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David Vaillancourt, PhD
Professor
Departments of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering
– Imaging Techniques
– PD Progression
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Vinata Vedam-Mai, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
– Deep Brain Stimulation
– Immunotherapy
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Baba C. Vemuri, PhD
Professor, Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Vision Graphics and Medical Imaging
– Medical Imaging
– Computer Vision
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Aparna Wagle Shukla, M.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
– Movement Disorders
– Electrophysiology
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Herbert Ward, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
– PD Depression
– Deep Brain Stimulation
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Lisa Warren, MHS, OTR/L
Site Manager
UF Health Rehab at Fixel Center for Neurological Diseases
– Movement Disorders
– Occupational Therapy
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Karen Wheeler Hegland, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
– Speech
– Swallowing problems
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Keith White, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Psychology, Opthamology, MBI
– Brain Imaging
– Psychology
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