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Karen Marder MD, MPH

Sally Kerlin Professor of Neurology
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center
Chief, Division of Aging and Dementia, Department of Neurology
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center

New York, NY

Karen Marder is the Sally Kerlin Professor of Neurology (in the Sergievsky Center, Taub Institute, and Psychiatry) and Chief of the Division of Aging and Dementia in the Department of Neurology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital at the Columbia University Medical Center. She has been the Director of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence since 1991. In May 2006, she was elected to a 6- year term as Co-Chair of the Parkinson Study Group, a consortium of North American investigators at 126 sites who participate in collaborative Parkinson’s disease (PD) research. Dr. Marder is also the director of the Participant Clinical Interactions Resource (PCIR) at Columbia, one of 39 NIH funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA). Her research interests span a range of neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, Huntington’s disease, HIV dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. She is the principal investigator for an NIH-funded study of the epidemiology and genetics of early-onset Parkinson’s disease. Another major area of interest has been the risk factors and impact of dementia on the course of Parkinson’s disease.