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David Standaert, MD, PhD - Executive Committee
John and Juanelle Strain Professor of Neurology
Director, Center for Neurodegeneration and
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

David Standaert is an internationally renowned physician scientist whose work focuses on understanding the causes of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders with the goal of developing new treatments. He is also an outstanding movement disorder neurologist with a subspecialty practice in UAB's Kirklin Clinic.

Dr. Standaert is a graduate of Harvard College, Washington University School of Medicine Medical Scientist Training Program with an MD/PhD in Pharmacology, the University of Pennsylvania Neurology Residency Program, and a research and clinical Fellowship in movement disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

As director of the American Parkinson Disease Association Advanced Center for Parkinson Research at MGH, his laboratory worked on understanding both the root causes of Parkinson's disease as well as the origin of disabling symptoms appearing after long-term treatment of the disease. He also saw patients in the Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic at MGH.