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Address
Unit 198, Neurological Institute, 710 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
USA
Phone:212-305-9194
Fax: 212-305-1304
Email:[email protected]
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| University Affiliations |
| ▪ | Sergievsky Center Professor |
| ▪ | Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain Professor |
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Education and Training
| MSc
| 1995
| Columbia University
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| MD
| 1989
| Yale University
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| BA
| 1984
| University of Pennsylvania
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Mailman School of Public Health of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor and Associate Chairman for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development of Neurology (in Sergievsky & Taub), College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| Elan Louis' (MD, MSc.) principal academic interest is in degenerative diseases of the
central nervous system, focusing on disorders of involuntary movement including their
epidemiology, distribution within populations, genetic basis, etiology, and
pathogenesis. He has a particular interest in essential tremor (ET), and his research
efforts have focused on the familial aggregation of ET, the environmental epidemiology
of ET, the role of lead, beta-carboline alkaloids and other neurotoxins in ET, and the
pathological basis of ET. Dr. Louis currently leads the Essential Tremor Centralized
Brain Repository at Columbia University, which is a centralized brain bank for the
study of ET, and has established a large DNA bank for patients with the disorder. He
collaborates with investigators in Spain, Turkey, and Mexico examining the
epidemiology of ET in these populations, and has received continuous funding from the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1995, as well as funding from the
International Essential Tremor Foundation, the Charles A. Dana Foundation, the
Parkinson's Disease Foundation, and a Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars Award
from the American Federation for Aging Research. Dr. Louis is the author of over 220
peer-reviewed publications and has been invited to write editorials and reviews for
Annals of Neurology, Movement Disorders, Archives of Neurology, New England Journal of
Medicine, Lancet, and Lancet Neurology. He has been a member of the Clinical
Neuroscience and Disease Study Section at NIH since 2003.
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