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Dr. Olanow is a graduate of the University of Toronto and trained in neurology at the Neurological Institute at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He has been on the faculties of McGill University, Duke University, and the University of South Florida prior to assuming his present position. He has had a long-standing interest in clinical and research aspects of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. Dr. Olanow has served as president of the Movement Disorder Society and the International Society of Motor Disturbances, and is the current Treasurer of the American Neurological Association. He has sat on the boards of the American Parkinson's Disease Association, the United Parkinson Foundation, the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease and is Director of the Bendheim Parkinson Center at Mount Sinai. He is an honorary Professor of Neurology at The Royal Free & University College Hospital Medical School. He has authored more than 300 publications. | 