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Movement Disorders Division

The Division of Movement Disorders is a subsection of the Department of Neurology within the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine (MSM) of the University of Miami (UM). The Division was founded in 1984 by Dr. William J Weiner who served as Division Chief until 2000, followed by Dr. William Koller. The division was been under the direction of Dr. Carlos Singer from2002 to 2020. He was succeeded by the current Division Chief, Dr. Ihtsham Haq.

The center employs six fellowship-trained movement disorders faculty, one Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, one Licensed Clinical Social Worker, four study coordinators, and a support staff of eight. The Center received the designation as a Center of Excellence from the Parkinson’s Foundation in 2007. Since then additional designations have included the Huntington Disease Center of Excellence and the Wilson Disease Center of Excellence. The center also partners closely with the Department of Psychiatry’s Tourette Center of Excellence. 

 From the time of its inception, the Center’s mission has included patient care, research, education and community outreach. The Center’s core philosophy is patient and caregiver centered. In the area of education, the center emphasizes the values of patient and compassion, a holistic approach to medical care and provision to future health professionals of the basic clinical skills to care for patients with Parkinson’s disease. The Center serves as a tertiary referral center for patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders in the South Florida community. The Center is also the premier referral center for patients from abroad with a singular projection to Latin America and the Caribbean.