Serge E. Przedborski, MD, PhD
Page and William Black Professor of Neurology
Chief, Movement Disorders Division
Director, Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative
Co-Director, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease
Vice-Chair, Research in Neurology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Professional Organizations and Societies
• American Academy of Neurology
• American Neurological Association
• International Movement Disorder Society
• Society for Neuroscience
• Association of American Physicians
Hospital Appointments
1991-1991: Instructor in Clinical Neurology, Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Chair: Professor J.Hildebrand).
1991-1998: Assistant Attending Neurologist, Neurological Institute, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, USA (Chair: Professor L.P. Rowland).
1998- 2002: Associate Attending Neurologist, NYPH (CPC), New York, USA (Chair: Professors L.P. Rowland then T.A. Pedley).
2002-Present: Attending Neurologist, NYPH (CPC), New York, USA (Chair: Professors L.P. Rowland, T.A. Pedley then R.Mayeux).
Honors & Awards
• Executive Editor of the manuscripts related to the workshop entitled Chemical Human Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology. Published in Neurochemistry International, vol. 14, 1989.
• Houston Merritt Fellow – Movement Disorder Research, Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, academic year 1989-1990.
• First Award in Neuroscience obtained for a study entitled: Quantitative receptor autoradiography of second-messenger systems in the imminodipropionitrile model of persistent dyskinesias in rat brain. 1st International Congress of Movement Disorders, Washington (USA), April 1990.
• Junior Investigator Award from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (New York), 1991-1995.
• Irwin A. Hansen Memorial Foundation Award, 1993-1996.
• Cotzias Award of the American Parkinson Disease Association 1996-1999.
• Doctor Harold and Golden Lamport Research Award 1998. `
• Awarded the Key-note lecture at the Symposium on Neurotoxic factors in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. Ulm, Germany, 1999.
• Invited speaker at the Neurobiology of Disease Symposium, Society of Neuroscience, NewOrleans, 2000.
• Recipient of the Schmitt Lecture in Neuroscience (sponsored by the MD, PhD program of Rochester University), Rochester New York, 2001.
• Co-guest Editor of the special issue “Advance in Parkinson’s Disease Research” of the journal Clinical and Neuroscience Research, 2001.
• Recipient of the Sheila Essey Award for ALS Research (sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology), Denver, 2002.
• Chicago Neural Repair Club, Inaugural Speaker, Children’sMemorial Research Center, Chicago, IL, Sept 24, 2006
• Robert Hervey Distinguished Lecturer on Parkinson’s Disease, Methodist Neurological Inst., Houston, TX, Jan 18, 2008.
• Keynote lecture at the Canadian PD Alliance meeting in Calgary, January 19th, 2009.
• President’s Distinguished Service Award, The Movement Disorder Society, Paris, France,June 2009.
• Vincent Liu Endowment Lecture on Motor Neuron Disease, HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong, December 2009.
• Cohen Endowment Lecture on Parkinson’s disease, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, October 2010.
• Lecturer at the Frontiers in Clinical Neuroscience Plenary Session, 63rd AAN AnnualMeeting, Hawaii, April 2011.
• Druker Lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, May 2011.
• Recipient of the David Marsden Presidential lecture, The Movement Disorder Society, Toronto, Canada, June 2011.
• Recipient of the MDA’s Wings Over Wall Street Diamond Award, 2011.
• Presidential lecture, 50th Birthday of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, Goias, Brazil, September 2012.
• Visiting Prefessorship Lecturer, Neurology/Neuroscience, University of Leuven, Belgium, June 2013.
• Keynote Lecturer, MD-PhD symposium, Rutgers/Princeton University, July 2013.
• The 12th Annual J. Stephen Fink, MD, PhD Memorial Lecture, Boston University, October 2014.
• Keynote Lecturer, Swiss Movement Disorders Symposium Lucerne, August 2015.
• Recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award, Nebraska Neuroscience Alliance, 2017.
• Lecturer at the 4th International Parkinson Disease Symposium. “Is Parkinson’s disease ready for precision medicine?”, Luxembourg October 2018.
• Lecturer at the Workshop su Neuroscienze Cliniche: dal laboratorio al letto del malato in Tribute to Professor Alfredo Carlo Altamura.University of Milan, Milan Italy, October, 2018
• Charles W. Bohmfalk Teaching Award for Pre-Clinical Years, Columbia University, May 2019
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