Deborah A. Hall, M.D., Ph.D.

Deborah Hall MD PhD is Professor of Neurological Sciences and a movement disorder neurologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She is the Divison Chief of Movement Disorders at Rush University, Vice Chair of Research in Neurological Sciences, holds the Parkinson’s Foundation Endowed chair, and chairs the Rush Institutional Review Board. She has chaired committees for the American Academy of Neurology, International Movement Disorder Society, National Fragile X Foundation, and Parkinson’s Study Group. She has a clinical practice of movement disorder patients and conducts research in Fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome, atypical parkinsonism, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s Disease. She has expertise in epidemiology studies, genotype phenotype correlations, and translation into clinical trials/early phase clinical trials. She has also done work in understanding mentoring of junior researchers, the state of clinical research in neurology, and gender disparities in neurology research careers.