FACULTY PROFILEProfessional Background: A.B. (biochemistry), Harvard University, 1982; M.D., Ph.D. (medicine, pharmacology), Washington University School of Medicine, 1988Email: dstandaert@uab.eduOffice: CIRC 516, 1719 6th Ave S, Birmingham AL 35294-0021
He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in medicine and pharmacology in 1988. He completed a one-year internship in medicine at Jewish Hospital of St. Louis in 1989 and a three-year neurology residency in 1992 at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a three-year research and clinical fellowship in neurology (movement disorders) at Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital in 1995.
Dr. Standaert is licensed to practice medicine in the states of Massachusetts and Alabama and was board certified in 1993 by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Dr. Standaert now serves as Director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the Department of Neurology and Director of the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics (CNET). He sees patients in a weekly clinic and through the course of clinical trials of new therapeutics for Parkinson's disease.
Dr. Standaert's clinical teaching has consisted of: serving as an attending physician on the MGH Neurology inpatient service, one month each year; teaching residents, fellows and medical students in the Movement Disorders clinic on a weekly basis; and teaching in Resident's clinic about once a month. Classroom teaching has consisted of serving as member of the Core Faculty for Harvard Health Sciences Technology Pharmacology course (HST150) and a lecturer for the Harvard Medical School Human Neuroscience and Behavior course.