Posts Tagged ‘movement disorders’
Meeting the Challenges of Distance, Travel and Time in Parkinson’s Disease Care: Telehealth and Remote DBS Neurostimulation
Ramsey (Drew) Falconer, MD, is the Medical Director of the Inova Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center. He is board certified in neurology and is a fellowship-trained movement disorders specialist. He also oversees several clinical trials in Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and movement disorders at the center. Discover new technology that enables remote DBS programming during…
Read MoreInova Among Early Adopters of First-of-Kind Remote Neuromodulation Technology For Patients
Falls Church, VA — Inova Health System is the first health system in the Northern Virginia and Washington DC area, and one of the first in the United States, to offer a new FDA-approved telemedicine option for remote neuromodulation of deep brain stimulation (DBS) patients being treated for Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. The NeuroSphere™…
Read MoreInova Begins Era of MRI-guided Neurosurgery with Implantation of Deep Brain Stimulator
Mahesh Shenai, MD, MBA, is a specialty care physician at the Inova Movement Disorders Program. He has a special interest in functional and restorative neurosurgery. Read Dr. Shenai’s profile. Last week, for the first time at the Inova Health System, we performed brain surgery inside the MRI scanner to treat a patient with Parkinson’s Disease.…
Read MoreTwo movement disorder docs join Inova’s neurological program
BRAIN WAVES For the first time, Inova has two movement disorder specialists. Sean Rogers, MD, PhD, and Drew Falconer, MD, both board-certified in neurology, started in summer 2015.Drs. Rogers and Falconer join Mahesh Shenai, MD, MBA, and James Leiphart, MD, PhD, FACS, as part of the fellowship-trained team that represents an expansion of the Movement…
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