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Office
420 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Education & Training
University of FloridaFellowship, Neuromuscular Medicine (Neurology), 2014 - 2016
University of Alabama Medical CenterResidency, Neurology, 2010 - 2014
Federal University of Bahia Faculty of MedicineClass of 2008
Certifications & Licensure
AL State Medical License 2010 - Present
FL State Medical License 2014 - 2026
MN State Medical License 2022 - 2025- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
Clinical Trials
- Novel Stimulation Patterns for the Treatment of Dystonia Start of enrollment: 2015 Jul 01
- Physiology, Imaging and Modeling of Essential Tremor Start of enrollment: 2021 Apr 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Differentiating Postural and Kinetic Tremor Responses to Deep Brain Stimulation in Essential Tremor.Rebecca D Butler, Annemarie K Brinda, Madeline Blumenfeld, Marina N Bryants, Peter M Grund
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 2024-11-07 - 4 citationsWarpDrive: Improving spatial normalization using manual refinements.Simón Oxenford, Ana Sofía Ríos, Barbara Hollunder, Clemens Neudorfer, Alexandre Boutet
Medical Image Analysis. 2024-01-01 - 1 citationsWeight and survival after deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.Robert S Eisinger, Michael S Okun, Stephanie Cernera, Jackson Cagle, Matthew Beke
Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2023-10-01
Journal Articles
- Case Report: Globus Pallidus Internus (GPi) Deep Brain Stimulation Induced Keyboard Typing DysfunctionJoshua K Wong, Leonardo Almeida, Addie Patterson, Michael S Okun, Irene A Malaty, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Structural Connectivity–Based Segmentation of the Thalamus and Prediction of Tremor Improvement Following Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Intermediate N...Leonardo Almeida, Kelly D Foote, Joshua Wong, Markus Bredel, Erik H Middlebrooks, Sanjeet S Grewal, Michael S Okun, ScienceDirect
Press Mentions
Medtronic Nets U.S. Approval for Brain Activity-Sensing Parkinson's Stimulation ImplantJune 8th, 2021- FDA Approves First-of-Its-Kind SenSight™ Directional Lead System for DBS TherapyJune 7th, 2021
- Minnesota Man Among the First in the Country to Receive Next Generation DBS Device for Parkinson’s DiseaseMarch 27th, 2024
Professional Memberships
- Member
- Movement Disorders SocietyMember
Other Languages
- Portuguese
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