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Rajesh Pahwa, MD
Stuart Isaacson, MD
Stuart Isaacson, MD
Rajesh Pahwa, MD, FAAN
Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Center
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
Dr. Rajesh Pahwa is the Laverne and Joyce Rider Professor of Neurology, Chief of the Parkinson's and Movement Disorder Division and Director of Parkinson's Foundation Krupp Smith Family Foundation Center of Excellence at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Dr. Pahwa received his M.B.B.S. (M.D.) degree at Seth G.S. Medical College, University of Bombay, India. He completed an internship in medicine at Baylor College of Medicine followed by a residency in Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He then completed a one-year fellowship in movement disorders at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Pahwa joined the faculty of the Department of Neurology as an instructor in 1992.
Dr. Pahwa was named the inaugural recipient of the Laverne and Joyce Rider Professorship in 2005. This professorship is named for the late Joyce Rider, a longtime Kansas City, Mo., resident, and for her mother, Laverne Stapp Rider, who battled Parkinson's disease for many years. Joyce Rider, who died in 2004, bequeathed financial support for the professorship to the University of Kansas Endowment Association.
Dr. Pahwa is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Additionally, the Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Clinic at The University of Kansas Health System is under Dr. Pahwa’s direction and offers diagnostic and treatment services for people with Parkinson's disease and related disorders such as progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy as well as tremor disorders, primarily essential tremor.
Stuart Isaacson, MD
Stuart Isaacson, MD
Stuart Isaacson, MD
Stuart Isaacson, MD, FAAN
Parkinson’s Disease Center of Boca Raton
Boca Raton, FL
Dr Stuart Isaacson is Director of the Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center of Boca Raton in Florida. He is also the medical director of the not-for-profit organization, Parkinson’s Research and Education Foundation in Boca Raton.
Dr Isaacson’s research focus is the development of new treatments for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, including tardive dyskinesia, essential tremor, dystonia, and atypical forms of parkinsonism. He has been involved in numerous clinical trials and served on national and international committees for many drug development programs and trials, as well as for the Parkinson Study Group and the movement disorders section of the American Academy of Neurology. A prolific author and coauthor of abstracts, journal articles, and book chapters, Dr Isaacson lectures frequently and has presented abstracts at national and international scientific meetings and symposia for patients.
Dr Isaacson earned his medical degree from Northwestern University/Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He completed an internship at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, New York, a residency in neurology, and a fellowship in movement disorders from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, also in New York, and a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
Daniel Kremens, MD
Stuart Isaacson, MD
Daniel Kremens, MD
Daniel Kremens, MD, FAAN
Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr. Kremens is an Associate Professor of Neurology, Co-Director of the Parkinsons Disease and Movement Disorders Center, and Vice Chair for Education at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Dr. Kremens graduated from Columbia College, summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He next graduated from Columbia Law School and practiced complex corporate litigation law at major law firms in New York City for seven years. Dr. Kremens then returned to medical school and graduated from Jefferson Medical College where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and won the William F. Kellow Prize and The Arthur Krieger Memorial Prize in Neurology. He completed his residency in Neurology followed by a fellowship in Movement Disorders at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Kremens is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a member of the Movement Disorder Society. His academic interests include neuroprotection and Parkinsons disease and non-motor symptoms in Parkinsons disease. He also is actively involved in medical education and serves as the Clerkship Director in the Department of Neurology at Jefferson Medical College.