MichaelD.GeschwindMDPhD, FAAN, FANA

Neurology • San Francisco, CA

Professor of neurology and holds the Michael J. Homer Chair in Neurology in the UCSF School of Medicine

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Office
1651 4th Street, Suite 212
San Francisco, CA 94158
Phone+1 415-353-2057

Fax+1 415-353-8292

Summary

Dr. Michael Geschwind is a neurologist in San Francisco, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including UCSF Medical Center and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He received his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has been in practice 20 years. He is experienced in prion diseases, spinocerebellar ataxia, dementia, autoimmune neurology, and huntington's disesae.

Education & Training

Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Neurology, 1997 - 2000
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterInternship, Internal Medicine, 1996 - 1997
Albert Einstein College of MedicineClass of 1996

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2000 - 2026
FL State Medical License 2016 - 2018
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013

Clinical Trials

Neurobiological Predictors of Huntington's Disease (PREDICT-HD)
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
TREND-HD - A Trial of Ethyl-EPA (Miraxion™) in Treating Mild to Moderate Huntington's Disease Start of enrollment: 2005 Sep 01
Completed
Phase 3
CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) Quinacrine Study Start of enrollment: 2005 Apr 01
Completed
Phase 2
Safety Study of the Novel Drug Dimebon to Treat Patients With Huntington's Disease Start of enrollment: 2006 Oct 01
Completed
Phase 1, Phase 2
Natural History Study of and Genetic Modifiers in Spinocerebellar Ataxias Start of enrollment: 2010 Apr 01
Recruiting
An Extension of the HORIZON Protocol Evaluating the Safety of Dimebon (Latrepirdine) in Subjects With Huntington Disease Start of enrollment: 2010 Feb 01
Terminated
Phase 3
Enroll -HD: A Prospective Registry Study in a Global Huntington's Disease Cohort Start of enrollment: 2012 Jul 01
Recruiting
A Clinical Study in Participants With Huntington's Disease (HD) to Assess Efficacy and Safety of Three Oral Doses of Laquinimod Start of enrollment: 2014 Oct 28
Completed
Phase 2
A Study in Subjects With Late Prodromal & Early Manifest HD to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, pk, and Efficacy of Pepi Start of enrollment: 2015 Jul 01
Completed
Phase 2
Trial in Adult Subjects With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Start of enrollment: 2016 Dec 15
COMPLETED
PHASE2, PHASE3
Clinical Trial Readiness for SCA1 and SCA3 Start of enrollment: 2018 Aug 16
Active, not recruiting
Troriluzole in Adult Participants With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Start of enrollment: 2019 Mar 08
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
PHASE3
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Spinocerebellar Ataxia Progression Measured with the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Ataxia.
Anna L Burt, Gilbert L'Italien, Susan L Perlman, Liana S Rosenthal, Sheng-Han Kuo
Movement Disorders. 2025-03-04
"By the Time We Knew …": Poetic Analysis of End-of-Life Caregiving Experiences for Rapidly Progressive and Slower-Duration Dementia Syndromes.
Krista L Harrison, Brianna E Morgan, Juliana Friend, Sarah B Garrett, David Looi
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2025-02-05
1 citations
Multiomic analyses direct hypotheses for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease risk genes.
Fahri Küçükali, Elizabeth Hill, Tijs Watzeels, Holger Hummerich, Tracy Campbell
Brain. 2025-01-27

Journal Articles

Neuroimaging in Dementia
Michael D Geschwind, Fanny M Elahi, Christopher P Hess, Seminars in Neurology

Press Mentions

146th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association to Focus on Research and Development of Neurologic Disease TherapeuticsOctober 5th, 2021
Police Have Investigated Five Cases in Five Years of Dementia Sufferers Causing Fatal Injuries to OthersMay 24th, 2019
The Eyes Have ItNovember 20th, 2018
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Grant Support

Unraveling the earliest phases of vascular cognitive impairment and dementia using CADASIL--a monogenic form of small vessel cerebrovascular diseaseUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON2021–2025
Tracking longitudinal change in presymptomatic genetic prion disease (TLC-Pre-gPrD)UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2019–2025
Predicting progression of human prion diseaseNIA2013–2018
Early Diagnosis Of Human Prion DiseaseNational Institute On Aging2008–2011
New Clinical Approaches To Creutzfeldt-Jakob DiseaseNational Institute On Aging2003–2007