Barbara Coffey, M.D.
Barbara J. Coffey, M.D., M.S. is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She has held the position of Chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry since October 1, 2017 and Director of the University of Miami Tourette Association of America (TAA) Center of Excellence since July 1, 2019. Dr. Coffey is an internationally recognized specialist in tics, Tourette’s Disorder and related disorders, such as ADHD and OCD.
Dr. Coffey was former Chief of the TAA Center of Excellence at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at ISMMS, and Research Psychiatrist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York between 2012-2017.
Dr. Coffey served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and was Director of the Tourette's Clinics at McLean and Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston between 1992-2001, and Director of the Tics and Tourette’s Program and Associate Professor at New York University School of Medicine between 2001-2012.
Dr. Coffey is the author of more than 150 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, abstracts, and book chapters. Co-Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of the Tourette Association of America, Dr. Coffey’s research has focused on the clinical course, psychiatric comorbidity, phenomenology, and novel treatments of Tourette’s Disorder.
Dr. Danielle Shpiner joined the Department of Neurology as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology in 2019. She graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins University, earning a BA in Neuroscience, and attended medical school at Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in Neurology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where she served as Chief Resident of Research and Education. She completed her fellowship in Movement Disorders at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is board certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. Her research interests include health disparities, invasive and noninvasive brain stimulation, and Parkinson’s Disease. She is currently leading a study investigating the impact of invasive treatments on neck and back pain in Parkinson’s Disease (The PD-Pain Study).
Her clinical interests include Parkinson’s Disease, Essential Tremor, dystonia, chorea, tics/Tourette Syndrome, ataxia, botulinum toxin injections, and deep brain stimulation. She is accepting new patients at the Professional Arts Center in downtown Miami.
