Alberto J. Espay, MD, MSc, FAAN, FANA
 
Dr. Alberto Espay is Professor and Endowed Chair of the James J. and Joan A. Gardner
Center for Parkinson’s Disease at the University of Cincinnati. He has published over 400
peer-reviewed research articles, 40 book chapters and 10 books, including Common
Movement Disorders Pitfalls, which received the Highly Commended BMA Medical
Book Award in 2013, and Brain Fables, the Hidden History of Neurodegenerative
Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them, coauthored with Parkinson patient and
advocate Benjamin Stecher, selected by the Association of American Publishers for the
PROSE Award honoring the best scholarly work in Neuroscience published in 2020. He
has served as Chair of the Movement Disorders Section of the American Academy of
Neurology, Associate Editor of the Movement Disorders journal, and on the Executive
Committee of the Parkinson Study Group. Among other honors, he has received the
Cincinnati Business Courier’s Health Care Hero award, the Spanish Society of
Neurology’s Cotzias award, and honorary membership in the Mexican Academy of
Neurology. His 2022 TEDx presentation, “Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s: The Solution in
Sight,” was selected from more than 12,000 global entries for two 2023 Telly Awards,
which honor excellence in video and television across all screens. He currently serves as
President of the Pan-American Section of the International Parkinson and Movement
Disorders Society and directs the first biomarker study of aging (CCBPstudy.com),
designed to match people with neurodegenerative disorders to available therapies from
which they are most biologically suitable to benefit, regardless of clinical diagnoses.