Movement Disorders Research Faculty
NYU Langone’s Kellar Family Division of Movement Disorders comprises faculty who are leaders in the field.
Patrick Drummond, MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Expertise: clinical movement disorders, hyperkinetic movement disorders, botulinum toxin injection
Steven J. Frucht, MD
Director, Kellar Family Division of Movement Disorders
Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: clinical movement disorders, hyperkinetic movement disorders, musicians’ dystonia, myoclonus, alcohol-responsive movement disorders, and clinical phenomenology
Un J. Kang, MD
Director, Translational Research, Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders
Co-Director, Parekh Center for Interdisciplinary Neurology
The Founders Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Institute for Translational Neuroscience
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease, movement disorders, mechanisms of neurodegeneration using experimental mouse models, and biomarkers of neurodegeneration in human biofluids and tissues
Methodological skills: behavioral monitoring in Parkinson’s disease rodent models, optogenetic and chemogenetic modulation of specific cell types in mouse brain, in vivo multichannel electrophysiology recording and optic recording in mouse brain, single-cell transcriptomics of human brain cells, biomarkers of human Parkinson’s disease biofluids, and statistical analysis of clinical and biological information in Parkinson’s disease database
Thong C. Ma, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy
Methodological skills: cell-type selective gene expression, single cell/nucleus transcriptomics, rodent Parkinson’s disease models, and biomarker development
Claire Miller, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Expertise: pediatric movement disorders, genetic conditions associated with movement disorders in children, HPDL deficiency, and dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy
Xavier Guell Paradis, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Module Director, Organ Systems 3: Brain and Behavior
Associate Program Director, Clinical Movement Disorders Fellowship
Associate Program Director, Fresco Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Expertise: cerebellum, neuroanatomy
Methodological skills: functional MRI imaging, human neuroanatomical dissection, and human behavioral analyses
Giulietta M. Riboldi, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor Research, Department of Neurology
Executive Director, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders
Director, Clinical Research and Genetics Movement Division
Expertise: Parkinson’s disease, atypical parkinsonism, genetics of Parkinson’s disease and rare movement disorders, genomics, and the immune system and Parkinson’s disease
Methodological skills: genetic and genomic analysis (genomic analysis, whole exome sequencing, whole genome sequencing, long reads sequencing data), RNAseq, proteomics, and methylation), statistical analysis of longitudinal data, and molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases
Betsy Thomas, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Expertise: quality improvement