Tatyana Simuni
Co-PI (Core Leadership)
Northwestern University
Dr. Simuni graduated with her medical degree from Leningrad Medical School and completed an internship in medicine in Leningrad, Russia. She subsequently completed an internship in internal medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center and a neurology residency and a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She then pursued a movement disorders fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served on the clinical faculty of the Department of Neurology for three years and held the position of Medical Co-Director of the Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Movement Disorders surgical program prior to her current positions.
Dr. Simuni joined the faculty of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 2000 to build and lead a multidisciplinary movement disorders center that is recognized by the Parkinson’s Foundation, Huntington Disease Society of America and Wilson’s Foundation as a Center of Excellence.
Recent ASAP Preprints & Published Papers
Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative: A Milestone-Based Strategy to Monitor PD Progression
Impact of the dopamine system on long-term cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease: an exploratory study
