Dr. Peter Hedera is a board-certified neurologist and medical geneticist who specializes in the management and treatment of movement disorders. His clinical interests include surgical therapies for Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, and botulinum toxin procedures for dystonia and spasticity. He earned his M.D. (1987) and Ph.D. (2010) from the Medical School of Ian Amos Comenius University in Czechoslovakia, and then completed neurology and medical genetics training at the University of Michigan. He is a professor in the Department of Neurology as well as the Raymond Lee Lebby Endowed Chair of Parkinson’s Disease Research and Director of the Movement Disorders Program at the University of Louisville. He has been awarded the 1999 Founder's Award of the American Academy of Neurology.
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myelopathy
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Short Biography
Dr. Peter Hedera is a board-certified neurologist and medical geneticist who specializes in the management and treatment of movement disorders. His clinical interests include surgical therapies for Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, and botulinum toxin procedures for dystonia and spasticity. He earned his M.D. (1987) and Ph.D. (2010) from the Medical School of Ian Amos Comenius University in Czechoslovakia, and then completed neurology and medical genetics training at the University of Michigan. He is a professor in the Department of Neurology as well as the Raymond Lee Lebby Endowed Chair of Parkinson’s Disease Research and Director of the Movement Disorders Program at the University of Louisville. He has been awarded the 1999 Founder's Award of the American Academy of Neurology.
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