Alberto Espay

Director and Endowed ChairJames J. and Joan A. Gardner Center for Parkinson's Diseaseand Movement DisordersUniversity of Cincinnati Academic Health CenterDr. Alberto Espay is Director and Endowed Chair of the James J. and Joan A. GardnerCenter for Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders at the University of Cincinnati.He has published over 300 research articles and 7 neurology textbooks, includingCommon Movement Disorders Pitfalls, which received the highly commended BMAMedical Book Award in 2013. With Parkinson's patient and advocate Benjamin Stecher,he co-wrote Brain Fables, the Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and aBlueprint to Conquer Them, selected by the Association of American Publishers for thePROSE Award honoring the best scholarly work in Neuroscience published in 2020. Hehas served as Chair of the Movement Disorders Section of the American Academy ofNeurology, Associate Editor of Movement Disorders, and on the Executive Committee ofthe Parkinson Study Group. He currently serves the International Parkinson and MovementDisorders Society as Chair of the Task Force on Technology and as Secretary of its Pan-American Section. His research efforts have focused on the measurement of motor andbehavioral phenomena in, and clinical trials for, Parkinson's disease as well as on theunderstanding and management of functional movement disorders. Dr. Espay has receivednumerous awards, including the Dean's Scholar in Clinical Research award, the DystoniaCoalition Career Development award, the NIH-funded K23 Career Development award,the Cincinnati Business Courier's Forty Under 40 award, the Health Care Hero award, thePatients' Choice and Compassionate Doctor awards, the Excellence in Mentoring award,and the Spanish Society of Neurology's Cotzias award. With colleagues at the Universityof Cincinnati, he recently launched the first biomarker study of aging (CCBPstudy.com),designed to match people with neurodegenerative disorders to available therapies fromwhich they are most biologically suitable to benefit, regardless of clinical diagnoses.