Presenter: Deborah Hall

Biography: Deborah Hall MD PhD is Professor Neurological Sciences and a movement disorder neurologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.  She received her MD from Indiana University and her PhD at University of Colorado, where she completed residency and fellowship. She is the Section Chief of Movement Disorders at Rush University, holds the Parkinson’s Foundation Endowed chair, and chairs the Rush Institutional Review Board. She is Director of the Fragile X-associated Tremor Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) Clinic at Rush, a National Fragile X Foundation International Consortium clinic, and founder of the Chicago/Midwest Fragile X Research Group. She has expertise in large epidemiology studies, clinical trials, and human subject’s research and chairs committees on clinical research for the American Academy of Neurology and rating scales for the Movement Disorder Society. She has been conducting research in FXTAS for over 20 years and has published several genotype-phenotype and epidemiological papers related to the disorder. She has held or has participated in 18 NIH R01 projects, many related to FXTAS. She has a clinical practice of movement disorder patients and has secondary research focuses in Huntington’s Disease, stem cell transplantation, and early phase clinical trials in Parkinson’s disease. Her passions also include mentoring of young researchers and faculty.