Movement Disorders

Providing a comprehensive spectrum if medical and neurosurgical evaluation and treatments for adult patients with movement disorders, including evaluation for deep brain stimulation (DBS).

Integrated and comprehensive treatment plan and opinion from a team involving: allied health services, neurosurgery, neurology, and neuroscience researchers.

Neurological treatment for:

• Parkinson disease
• Essential tremor
• Dystonia
• Spasticity
• Other Movement Disorders

Neurosurgical interventions available are:

• Deep brain stimulation (thalamus, subthalamic nucleus, globus pallidus)
• Pallidotomy
• Thalamotomy
• Intrathecal baclofen (ITB) therapy for severe spasticity

For referring physicians

No more than a 2-week lag between an initial call to us and a scheduled appointment.

We provide:

• long term followup and programming of deep brain stimulators, and if desired
• a willingness to work on developing your capability and skills in programming of deep brain stimulators.

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Clinical Team

Kim Burchiel, M.D., Professor and Chairman
David Gostnell, PhD., Assistant Clinical Professor
Richard Kolbell, PhD., Clinical Instructor
Gregory Anderson, Ph.D, Clinical Instructor
Andrew Zacest, M.S., M.B.B.S., Instructor

Support Team

503 494-4314
Todd Ellingson - Patient Care Coordinator
Jodi Phillips - Surgical Care Coordinator