Meet Our Medical Advisory Board



Dr. Steven J. Frucht, M.D. - Chairman.
Director of the Movement Disorders Division at Mount Sinai Medical School. Dr. Frucht is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and completed his fellowship in movement disorders at Columbia University Medical Center. View official profile
E-Mail:steven.frucht@mssm.edu





Dr. Christopher Walsh, M.D. , PhD
Chief, Division of Genetics at Children's Hospital Boston and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Walsh completed his PhD in Neurobiology from University of Chicago, M.D from Pritzker School of Medicine at University of Chicago, and completed his fellowship in Neurology and Genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. View official profile.





Dr. Philip Starr, PhD. M.D.
Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery, Dolores Cakebread Endowed Chair, Co-Director, Functional Neurosurgery Program at University of California, San Francisco. Surgical Director, Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Care Center (PADRECC) at San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Medical Center. A Princeton University graduate, Dr. Starr completed his PhD in Neuroscience and M.D. at Harvard Medical School, and his Fellowship in Movement Disorders at Emory Medical School. View official profile
E-Mail:
StarrP@neurosurg.ucsf.edu




Dr. Jill Ostrem, M.D.
Medical Director University of California San Francisco Surgical Movement Disorders Program. Dr. Ostrem completed her M.D. at George Washington University and her fellowship in Movement Disorders at University of Califonia Los Angeles Medical Center.
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E-Mail: jill.ostrem@ucsf.edu




Dr. William Dauer, M.D.
Elinore Levine Professor of Neurology, University of Michigan. Director of the Dauer Laboratory. Dr. Dauer completed his M.D. at Washington University at St. Louis Medical School and completed fellowships in Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and in Movement Disorders at Columbia University. View official profile




Dr. Pamela Whitney Schaefer, M.D.
Director, MR Imaging. Associate Director, Neuroradiology. Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Schaefer, a Princeton University graduate completed her M.D. at Johns Hopkins Medical School and her fellowship in Neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Dr. Roy Alcalay, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Movement Disorders Division at Columbia University. Dr. Alcalay completed his M.D. at Tel Aviv University and his neurology training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and completed his fellowship in Movement Disorders at Columbia University
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Dr. Naomi Lubarr, M.D.
Attending, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel with specialty in Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Lubarr, a Princeton University graduate, completed her M.D. at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and her fellowship in Movement Disorders at Columbia University.
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Dr. Brian Thomas, M.D.
Internist, Windsor Medical Associates. Assistant Clinical Professor of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Thomas completed his M.D. and Residency at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.




Dr. Stuart Joseph, M.D.
Private practice, Internal Medicine in Miami, Florida. Dr Joseph has Cervical Dystonia. A Princeton University graduate, Dr. Joseph completed his M.D. at the University of Puerto Rico and his residency in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.






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Kaley is battling early onset Dystonia

ADS Medical Board

All are passionate caregivers who are renowned in their fields. When ADS makes grant awards, these talented internists,neurologists, neurosurgeons, and neuroradiologists will advise ADS in grant decisions.
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