About Stewart A Factor

Director, Emory Comprehensive Parkinson's Disease Center and the Movement Disorders Program

Stewart Factor DO is currently Professor of Neurology Director of the Movement Disorders Program and Vance Lanier Chair of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. ; He is currently a member of the American Academy of Neurology American Neurological Association Movement Disorder Society Parkinson Study Group Huntington Study Group and the Dystonia Study Group. ; He has held numerous committee memberships for the AAN MDS PSG and HSG. ; Dr. Factor earned his undergraduate degree in Biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his DO in Medicine at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine at Old Westbury. ; He received his neurology training at Albany Medical Center in Albany New York and Movement Disorders training at the University of Miami in Miami Florida. Previous position was as Director of Movement Disorders at Albany Medical Center in Albany New York. He has edited three textbooks: “Parkinson’s Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management” first & second editions and “Drug-induced Movement Disorders” as well as authoring numerous peer reviewed articles. ; Current research projects include work in biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease freezing of gait and tardive dyskinesia.