Dr. Mandar Jog, MD, FRCPC, is the Director of the National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence in Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Program at London Health Sciences Centre and a Professor of Neurology at Western University, both in London, Ontario, Canada. He is also one of the Associate Directors of the Lawson Health Research Institute. He trained in Neurology in Toronto and completed a fellowship in movement disorders with Dr. Anthony Lang. This was followed by a 4-year post-doctoral fellowship in Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, Massachusetts, under Dr. Ann Graybiel and a visiting professorship at Stanford Research Institute (SRI Inc.) in California. With 6 patents and 4 provisional patents for innovative technology, he is the co-founder of Medtrode Inc., MDDT Inc., and founder of ManJog Enterprises Limited. His research attempts to probe the structure and function of the basal ganglia and their role in movement disorders. His research projects on which he has published more than 300 papers and given over 300 national and international presentations.