Lawrence Golbe

Lawrence Golbe, M.D., is emeritus professor of neurology and director of the Division of Movement Disorders at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. His principal research interests are the genetics and epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). He performed the first study of the prevalence and risk factors in PSP and has been a longtime chairman of the scientific advisory board of the Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. He received his medical training at New York University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Hahnemann University. He also trained in neurology at NYU-Bellevue Medical Center and received his bachelor’s degree in evolutionary biology at Brown University.