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Susan Bressman, MD - Executive Committee
Professor of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, New York

Susan Bressman is Chair of the Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City and Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She attended Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and received her postgraduate training in neurology at the Columbia * Presbyterian Medical Center. After residency she was a Movement Disorders Fellow under Dr. Stanley Fahn and then remained at Columbia where she developed a genetics program in movement disorders, and also saw patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. While at Columbia, and since her move to Beth Israel in 1997, Dr. Bressman's research has involved many collaborations including investigators at Albert Einstein, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and North Shore. The focus has been to identify genes for dystonia and parkinsonism, to characterize genotype- phenotype relations, and to identify imaging and other endophenotypes. Susan B. Bressman, MD Chair, Dept of Neurology Beth Israel Medical Center Professor, Dept of Neurology Albert Einstein College of Medicine.