Christopher W Hess, M.D.

My name is Christopher W. Hess, MD, and I am an Associate Professor of neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, and I also direct the Veterans Administration Parkinson’s Disease Consortium Center at the North Florida/South Georgia VA Medical Center. I serve as the Medical Director, Movement Disorders Fellowship Director, and Director of Neurotechnology at the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases.

I received my medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and my neurology residency at Columbia University Medical Center. I completed subspecialty fellowship training in movement disorders at Columbia under Dr. Stanley Fahn, with additional training in movement disorders neurophysiology under Seth Pullman.

I have published journal articles and book chapters on a variety of topics, including movement disorders phenomenology, neurophysiology and methods of tremor analysis, neuroimaging in movement disorders, invasive and non-invasive brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, and substance abuse in movement disorders. My current research interests include the study of wearable devices in movement disorders and outcomes in hospitalized patients with Parkinson’s disease. I am board-certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry and a member of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society and the American Academy of Neurology.