Grand Rounds: "Advanced Treatment Options in Parkinson's Disease"
TARGET AUDIENCE & COURSE OBJECTIVE: This Grand Rounds Interactive Case Presentation is designed for medical students and faculty with an interest in learning about current topics in the diagnosis and treatment of clinical neurology, movement disorders, and Parkinson’s disease.
Leo Verhagen, MD, PhD received his medical degree at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and did his Neurology residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD where he subsequently served as a Visiting Scientist. In 1999 he joined the internationally renowned Movement Disorder group at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where he specializes in medical and surgical treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. In 2002 Dr. Verhagen obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Leiden based on pharmacological studies of motor response complications in Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Verhagen is Professor of Neurological Sciences and the Director and Founder of the movement disorders surgery program at Rush. His research is aimed at improving and developing interventional treatment options for patients with movement disorders through clinical and translational research. He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles, multiple book chapters and is the Editor of the Movement Disorder Encyclopedia.
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