Tanya Simuni, MD FAAN

Acting Chief Medical Officer, Scientific Advisory Board

Dr. Simuni is the Arthur C. Nielsen Jr Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders Center at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, with expertise in design and implementation of Parkinson’s disease clinical trials. She is the investigator of more than a dozen PD clinical trials and the lead investigator of a number of clinical trials on experimental pharmacology, non-motor manifestations, and pharmacological management of PD. She serves on several steering committees for PD national clinical trials, including committees of the Parkinson Study Group, the Parkinson’s Foundation, and the largest PD biomarker initiative funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation (PPMI study). She has more than hundred publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals and book chapters and she has lectured nationally and internationally on PD and other movement disorders. Dr. Simuni is an active member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, and the Movement Disorders Society as well as the Parkinson’s Study Group, and REM Behavior Disorders Study Group.