Roy N Alcalay

Roy Alcalay is chief of the Movement Disorders Division at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Norma and Alan Aufzien Professor of Neurology at the Gray Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel. He moved from Columbia University where he continues to hold a part-time position focusing on research and education. He obtained his medical degree from Tel Aviv University, his neurology training from the Harvard University residency program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and his training in movement disorders at Columbia University. He earned a master’s degree in biostatistics (patient-oriented research track) from Columbia University. His research focuses on biomarkers and genetics in Parkinson’s disease. He is the principal investigator of the Parkinson’s Foundation-funded PD GENEration study, and a member of The Michael J. Fox Foundation-funded PPMI executive steering committee. In addition to grants from The Michael J. Fo