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Office
222 East 41st Street
13th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Education & Training
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsMovement Disorders, Neurology, 1986 - 1987
- New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)Residency, Neurology, 1983 - 1986
- Rush University Medical CenterInternship, Internal Medicine, 1982 - 1983
- Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 1982
- University of ChicagoBA, Chemistry, With Honors, 1978
- University of North Carolina at GreensboroNo Degree, Chemistry, 1976
- Seoul National UniversityNo Degree, 1975
Certifications & Licensure
- NY State Medical License 1982 - 2026
- IL State Medical License 1992 - 2014
- CA State Medical License 1990 - 1992
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Top Doctor Castle Connolly
- Distinguished Lectureship Award New England Bioscience Society, 2017
- State University of New York Downstate, Brooklyn, NY, Larry Benardo Memorial Lecture 2014
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 62 citationsPhosphorylated α-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease: correlation depends on disease severityTessandra Stewart, Vesna Sossi, Jan O. Aasly, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Ryan J. Uitti
Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 2015-01-31 - 322 citationsCerebrospinal fluid biomarkers for Parkinson disease diagnosis and progression.Min Shi, Joshua M. Bradner, Aneeka M. Hancock, Kathryn A. Chung, Joseph F. Quinn
Annals of Neurology. 2011-03-01 - 4202 citationsMovement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS): scale presentation and clinimetric testing results.Christopher G. Goetz, Barbara C. Tilley, Stephanie R. Shaftman, Glenn T. Stebbins, Stanley Fahn
Movement Disorders. 2008-11-15
Journal Articles
- Axctosidase A activity in Parkinson�s diseaseAlcalay RN, Wolf P, Levy OA, Kang UJ, Waters C, Fahn S, Ford B, Kuo SH, Vanegas N, Shah H, Liong C, Narayan S, Pauciulo MW, Nichols WC, Gan-Or Z, Rouleau GA, Chung WK..., Neurobiology of Disease; Neurobiol Dis, 1/1/2018
- Enhanced histamine H2 excitation of striatal cholinergic interneurons in L-DOPA-induced dyskinesiaLim A, Xia R, Ding Y, Won L, Ray WJ, Hitchcock SA, McGehee D, Neurobiol Dis, 1/1/2015
- Impact of disclosure of individual imaging results in a multi-center Parkinson clinical trialJennings D, Eberly S, Oakes D, Seibyl J, Marek K, Shoulson I; Parkinson Study Group PRECEPT Investigators, J Parkinsons Dis, 1/1/2014
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Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Associative learning contributes to motor impairment after dopamine depletion and is associated with activation of striatopallidal spiny projection neuronsCheung T, Ding Y, Kang UJ, Gordon Conference on Basal Ganglia, 1/1/2018
- Modulating SNr neuronal activity in PD and LIDHu Y, Ma T, Ding Y, Kang UJ, Gordon Conference on Basal Ganglia, 1/1/2018
- A Prospective Clinical Cohort and Biorepository of Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)Kim J, Gupta D, Liong C, Ma T, Kang UJ, Kuo S-H, Alcalay R, Sklerov M, American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1/1/2018
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Lectures
- Aberrant motor learning in PD: learning to move slow?1/30/2018
- Beyond dopamine and DBS in PD therapy: cell-type specific modulationFlorence, Italy - 1/14/2018
- Shaking it upHNA Palisades Conference Center, Palisades, NY - 1/8/2018
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Grant Support
- Pathological Striatopallidal Neural Ensemble in Learned Motor Impairment in PDNIH2019–2024
- The striatal cholinergic interneurons in Parkinson’s disease and treatmentNIH2017–2021
- Regulation of l-dopa induced dyskinesia by the substantia nigra pars reticulataNIH2018–2020
- Striatal Cholinergic Neurons And L-DOPA Induced DyskinesiaNational Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke2009–2012
- Neuroprotective Mechanism Of DJ-1 In Parkinson'S DiseaseNational Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke2007–2011
- The Neuroprotective Effect Of TetrahydrobiopterinNational Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke2003–2007
- Dopamine Regulation In Parkinsonian RAT By Gene TherapyNational Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke2002–2006
- Catecholamine Regulation In Genetically Modified GraftsNational Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke1998–2001
- Catecholamine Regulation In Genetically Modified GraftsNational Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke1993–1997
- Neurotransmitter Expression In Aging BrainNational Institute On Aging1992
- Neurotransmitter Gene Expression In Aging BrainNational Institute On Aging1991–1992
- Neurotransmitter Gene Expression In Aging BrainNational Institute On Aging1990
- Neurotransmitter Gene Expression In Aging BrainNational Institute On Aging1988–1989
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