Tao Xie, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at the University of Chicago, is a board-certified neurologist and fellowship-trained specialist in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and movement disorders. He completed a research fellowship in dopaminergic/serotonergic neurotoxicity at Johns Hopkins University, an internship and neurology residency at Emory University and clinical fellowship in PD and other movement disorders at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Xie's research interests include the effect of deep brain stimulation on freezing of gait, swallowing function and tremor; clinical trials and biomarkers on PD, progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy; DatScan in the diagnosis of parkinsonism; and racial disparity in PD. He has published about 60 peer-reviewed articles and participated in about 20 studies/trials as a principal investigator (PI) or site PI, funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation, Parkinson’s Foundation, industries, and the National Institutes of Health