Alberto J. Espay, MD, MSc

Bio

Alberto J. Espay, MD, trained in clinical and electrophysiology of
Movement Disorders at the Toronto Western Hospital, completing an MSc program in
Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research and a Dystonia Medical Research
Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship (University of Toronto, 2001-2005). He
has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has
authored the books Concise Neurology (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters
Kluwer Health, 2011), with Dr. Jose Biller; Common Movement Disorders Pitfalls
(Cambridge University Press, 2012), with Dr. Anthony Lang; and Practical
Neurology Visual Review (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins/Wolters Kluwer
Health, 2013 [in press]), with Dr. Jose Biller. 

Dr. Espay received the Dean’s Scholar in Clinical
Research Award by the University of Cincinnati for three consecutive years
(2006-09), the NIH-funded KL2 Research Scholars Mentored Award (2010-12), and the
NIH-funded K23 Career Development Award (2011-16). He is Associate Professor
and Clinical Research Director of the James J. and Joan A. Gardner Center for
Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders at the University of Cincinnati, and
has served as the neuroscience representative to the Institutional Review Board
and the Advisory Board of UC Physicians Clinical Trials Organization. He serves
as Assistant Editor of Movement Disorders, the official journal of the Movement
Disorder Society, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Movement Disorders, and on
the Editorial Board of The European Neurological Journal, as well as ad hoc
reviewer for over 20 other neurological and medical journals. He has served as
faculty for a variety of annual educational courses at the American Academy of
Neurology and Movement Disorders Congresses since 2007. He became honorary
member of the Mexican Academy of Neurology in 2008, joined the Best Doctors in
America list in 2009, received the Business Courier’s ‘Forty Under 40′ award in
2010, and the Patients’ Choice and Compassionate Doctor awards in 2011.