Tanya Simuni, MD

Medical Director

Tanya Simuni, MD is Associate Professor of Neurology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and Medical Director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Northwestern University, where she also serves as the Neurology Department's Residency Program Director. She is Board certified in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology.

Dr. Simuni earned her BS and medical degrees from Leningrad Medical School, Russia. She completed her internship in medicine in Leningrad, followed by an internship in internal medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. She had a neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at Temple University, Philadelphia.

Dr. Simuni completed a fellowship in movement disorders at the University of Pennsylvania Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center. She served on the faculty at University of Pennsylvania for three years, and was medical co-director of the movement disorders surgical program before coming to Northwestern.

As principal investigator and co-investigator of numerous clinical trials, Dr. Simuni has done extensive research on the treatment of Parkinson's disease. She is widely published, and she lectures nationally on Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

Dr. Simuni is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Movement Disorders Society, the Parkinson's Study Group, Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group, and the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine.