DonateElan Louis, M.D., M.S.
DSF Essential Tremor Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Louis is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist with expertise in age-related and degenerative diseases of the motor system, particilarly the tremor disorders.
He is the Linda and Mitch Hart Distinguished Chair in Neurology, and Chair of the Department of Neurology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements and editor of the 13th, 14th, and 15th (currently in process) editions of Merritt’s Textbook of Neurology. Dr. Louis earned his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. from Yale University.
He completed residency and fellowship at Columbia University, earned a master’s degree in epidemiology. Prior to University of Texas, he was faculty at Columbia University (1995 – 2014) and Yale (2015 – 2020).
Dr. Louis has obtained continuous funding from NIH since 1995, having authored more than 700 original peer-reviewed manuscripts. Drawing on his epidemiological training, one sphere of his research involves the careful assembly of clinical cohorts and population-based samples of patients, focusing on the clinical attributes, clinical definition and diagnosis, epidemiology and genetics of tremor disorders. His second sphere of research is laboratory-based.
In 2003, he established the Essential Tremor Centralized Brain Repository, now having harvested more than 250 brains, serving to elucidate the underlying pathophysiology of essential tremor.
https://labs.utsouthwestern.edu/louis-lab
