Robert Chen

Robert Chen received his M.A. and medical degrees (MBBChir) from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 1989, and the M.S. degree from the University of Toronto in 1992. He undertook internship at Guy’s Hospital (University of London), residency in Internal Medicine at the Queen’s University and residency in Neurology at the University of Western Ontario followed by three years of fellowship training in human motor control and movement disorders at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is board certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology and subspecialize in movement disorders. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and to Professor in 2008. In 2006, he was appointed the Catherine Manson Chair in movement disorders. He serves also as a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Research Institute, the Chair of the Research Committee of the Division of Neurology, and the Director of the Clinician Scientist Training Program of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research interests are human motor physiology, brain plasticity, and pathophysiology of movement disorders such as dystonia and Parkinson’s disease. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed research papers. He currently holds research funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson Research, and the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation.

Biography Updated on 28 June 2010

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