Barrow Neurological Institute of St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
Phoenix, Arizona
4Dr. Abe Lieberman returns to Barrow to direct Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center
Dr. Abraham Lieberman is the new medical director of the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow. Dr. Lieberman was previously the National Medical Director of the National Parkinson Foundation. He has been diagnosing and treating patients with Parkinson’s disease for more than 40 years, including a previous stent at MAPC.
Dr. Lieberman received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. He completed a Neurology residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York and a Pharmacology fellowship at NYU. He is board certified in Neurology and Psychiatry, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association. He was a Professor of Neurology at New York University and at the University of Miami Medical School.
Dr. Lieberman is the principal or co-principal investigator of more than 200 studies into Parkinson’s disease, including many drugstudies and research into psychosocial issues that can be related to PD. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 articles published in major journals, and published several books on PD, including Shaking Up Parkinson Disease and 100 Questions and Answers about Parkinson Disease.
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Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center
4Barrow student researcher wins scholarships
Erik Stout, a student researcher in the Motor Systems Neurophysiology laboratory of Irina Beloozerova, PhD, has won National Merit and Flinn undergraduate scholarships, and is now enrolled at the ASU Fulton School of Engineering. He graduated in the top one percent of his class at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix.
Stout joined the Beloozerova Lab in the fall of 2005 as a participant of Barrow’s High School Student Research Program. During his first two years in the program, he mastered the technology of neuron-physiological experiments by learning to precisely record movements of the body and limbs, and the associated activity in the motor area of the cerebral cortex.
Last year, he developed his own experiment, which was designed to answer how learning affects the routine activity of neuronal populations, and conducted and analyzed experiments. Stout continues his research in hopes that understanding the mechanisms of learning will solve certain challenges faced by the neuroprosthetics industry and will provide insight important to rehabilitative care.
4Research by Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD, Director of the Laboratory of Visual
4Neuroscience at Barrow, is featured on PhysOrg.com
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4St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center Named to the "Best of the Best" Honor Roll
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center was again recognized in 2008 by
U.S. News & World Report
as one of the United States' top ten hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery.
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