Patient Care

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a very strong Movement Disorder specialty group in the Department of Neurology, with specialists for Parkinson’s Disease and Multi-System Atrophy. Our Movement Disorder Division neurologists provide clinical care and also conduct clinical and basic research relating to Parkinson’s disease and related movement disorders. In addition, there is a specialty practice for patients with dysautonomia, including Multi-System Atrophy (previously called Shy-Drager syndrome). Finally, our neurologists and neurosurgeons closely collaborate and offer surgical approaches to the treatment of movement disorders, including deep brain stimulation and pallidotomy.

Movement Disorders Division P. David Charles, M.D. Thomas L. Davis, M.D. John Y. Fang, M.D. Peter Hedera, M.D. Michael Cooper, M.D. David Robertson, M.D. Dot Shearon, R.N. Linda Hurt

Autonomic Dysfunction Center David Robertson, M.D., Director Italo Biaggioni, M.D. Maciej S. Buchowsk, Ph.D. Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D. P. David Charles, M.D. Stephen Neil Davis, Ph.D. Thomas L. Davis, M.D. Ariel Y. Deutch, Ph.D. André Diedrich, M.D. John Y. Fang, M.D. F. Andrew Gaffney, M.D. Rose M. Robertson, M.D

Neurosurgery - Surgical Approaches to Movement Disorders C. Chris Kao, M.D., Ph.D. Peter E. Konrad, M.D., Ph.D