Stanley Fahn MD

Biography :

Stanley Fahn, MD, is the H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurology and Director Emeritus of the Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders at Columbia University in New York City. He served as President of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) from 2001 to 2003. He served as the Scientific Director of the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation from 1979 until 2016 when the Foundation merged into a new Parkinson’s Foundation. In 1985, he co-founded (with Dr. David Marsden) The Movement Disorder Society and chaired its Steering Committee for its first 3 years, and was then elected its first president after the Society’s Constitution was ratified. He was the founding co-editor of the journal Movement Disorders and served in this capacity for the first 10 years of the journal’s existence, until 1996. He has also served as associate editor of the journal, Neurology, for 10 years. Dr. Fahn has twice served as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs for the Food and Drug Administration. With Dr. Ira Shoulson, Dr. Fahn co-founded in 1986 the Parkinson Study Group (PSG), a consortium of clinical investigators dedicated to conducting controlled clinical trials on the prevention and treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD). Dr. Fahn was elected and re-elected as co-chair of its Executive Committee and served for 20 years in that capacity.