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Hubert H. Fernandez, M.D., an associate professor of
neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, co-director of the Movement Disorders Center
at the McKnight Brain Institute and director of clinical trials for movement
disorders, has been elected co-medical editor of the Web site for the Movement
Disorder Society.
The society is an international organization of clinicians
and scientists committed to improving the lives of patients and finding the
cure for all types of movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease,
Huntington's disease and dystonia.
Fernandez immediately set out to redesign the society's Web
site and is pushing forward initiatives to update the site with new articles
and video cases each month. The Web address is www.movementdisorders.org/.
"We are committed to providing our global membership with a
Web site that is universal and international, that is user-friendly and
contains features useful for all sectors of our growing society," announced Fernandez
and co-medical editor Marcelo Merello, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Movement
Disorders Section at the Raul Carrea Institute for Neurological Research in Buenos Aires. "We believe
that the Movement Disorder Society should be the global leader for research and
education, and the Web must play a central and leadership role to achieve this
goal. We are honored to have been chosen by our society to lead this important
mission."
Fernandez, who has initiated or participated in more than
three dozen single-center and multicenter clinical trials, co-directs the UF's Movement Disorders Center
with neurosurgeon Kelly Foote, M.D., and neurologist Michael Okun, M.D.
In addition, Fernandez is the program director of UF's
Neurology Residency Training Program and Movement Disorders Fellowship Training
Program. He received his medical degree in the Philippines,
and completed his neurology residency at Boston
University and a postgraduate
fellowship in movement disorders at Brown
University.
He is a fellow of the American Academy
of Neurology and an executive board member of its movement disorders section,
as well as a member of the American Neurological Association and
president-elect of the Florida Society of Neurology.
