Zoltan Mari MD, FAAN

Dr. Zoltan Mari is the Ruvo Family Chair & Director of the Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Program at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Dr. Mari is the immediate past Chair of the Movement Disorder Society’s Telemedicine Study Group, Chair of the Parkinson Study Group’s Motor Working Group, and Associate Editor of the Parkinsonism and Related Disorders journal.

Previously at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Mari was the director of the movement disorder clinical fellowship training program, the DBS Center, the Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence, the Dystonia Center, and the Parkinson’s & Movement Disorder Center.  Since his 2017 transition to the Ruvo Center, Dr. Mari has helped establish the Movement Disorder Clinical Fellowship program, which he directs.  Dr. Mari also directs the CurePSP’s Center of Care and Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence there, all first and only in the state of Nevada.

Recipient of numerous awards, Dr. Mari authored 140 peer-reviewed papers, several book chapters, and patents.  He has served as PI or AI on dozens of studies in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, including the highest enrolling PI in TEMPO1 (tavapdon) in the United States.