University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Robert L. Rodnitzky, MD

Professor and Director, Movement Disorders Division

Address

Office location: 216 S GH
Phone: 319-356-3424
Fax: 319-384-7199
E-mail: robert-rodnitzky@uiowa.edu

Clinical Specialty
Movement Disorders

Research Interests

• New Therapies of Parkinson's Disease
• Non-Motor Manifestations of Parkinson's Disease
• Investigational drugs in the treatment of Parkinson's disease

Education

• BS, University of Chicago
• MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine
• Internship (Internal Medicine), University of Iowa Hospitals

Residency
Residency (Neurology), University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Honors and Awards

• Hilda Claire Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa, 1992
• Best Doctors in America, 1995-1998, 1998-present
• Shapiro Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1995
• Allen Bailey Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 1996
• Marquis, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare
• Marquis, Who's Who in America
• Marquis, Who's Who in American Education

Professional Affiliations

• American Medical Association
• Johnson County (Iowa) Medical Association
• Iowa Medical Society
• American Academy of Neurology
• American Neurological Association
• Central Society for Neurological Research
• Iowa Midwestern Neurologic Association
• Movement Disorder Society
• Parkinson's Study Group
• American Neurological Association
• Huntington Study Group
• Cerebellar Ataxia Group

Publications

• Rodnitzky RL. Can calcium antagonists provide a neuroprotective effect in Parkinson's disease? Drugs 57:845-849, 1999.
• Rodnitzky RL. The Parkinsonisms: Identifying what is not Parkinson's Disease. The Neurologist 5:300-312, 1999.
• Rodnitzky RL. Visual dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease. Clinical Neuroscience 98(5):102-106, 2000.
• Wzolek ZK, Gwinn-Hardy K, Wzolek EK, Muenter MD, Pfeiffer RF, Rodnitzky RL, Uitti RJ, McCombRD, Gasser T, Dickson DW. Neuropathology of two members of a German-American kindred (Family C) with late onset Parkinsonism. Acta Neuropathologica 103:344-350, 2002.
• Rodnitzky RL. Drug-induced movement disorders. Clinical Neuropharmacology 25:142-152, 2002.
• Rodnitzky RL Drug-induced movement disorders in childhood. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology. 10:80-87, 2003.
• Uc EY, Lambert CP, Harik, SI, Rodnitzky RL, Evans WJ. Albuterol improves and increases skeletal muscle mass in patients with fluctuating Parkinson's disease. Clinical Neuropharmacology 26:207-212, 2003.
• Rodnitzky, RL Drug-induced movement disorders in children and adolescents. Expert Opinion on Drug Safety. 4:91-102, 2005.
• Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Qian S, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson JD. Visual dysfunction in Parkinson's disease without dementia. Neurology 65: 1907-1913, 2006.
• Uc EY, Struck LK, Rodnitzky RL, Zimmerman B, Dobson J, Evans WJ. Predictors of weight loss in Parkinson's disease. Movement Disorders 21: 930-936, 2006.
• Rodnitzky RL. H. pylori and levodopa absorption: a study in germ morefare. Neurology 66: 1791, 2006.
  
• Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Sparks J, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson JD. Impaired visual search in drivers with Parkinson's disease. Annals of Neurology 60: 407-413, 2006
• Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY: Movement Disorders. in Joynt, RJ and Griggs R (eds.) Baker's Clinical Neurology Lippincott Williams and Wilkens Philadelphia, 2003.
• Rodnitzky R, Risk WS. Anticholinergic Therapy. in Pahwa R, Lyons K, and Koller W (eds). Therapy of Parkinson's Disease: third edition. Marcel Dekker, New York, 2004.
• Rodnitzky, RL Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome. in Corbett J (ed) Basic Neurological Life Support.BC Decker Inc. Hamilton, Ontario Canada, 2004.
• Rodnitzky, RL Visual Function in Parkinson's Disease. in Ebadi M and Pfeiffer RF (eds) Parkinson's Disease CRC Press, Boca Raton. 2005.
• Rodnitzky RL. Visual Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease. in Pfeiffer RF and Bodis-Wollner I (eds) Parkinson's Disease and Non-motor Dysfunction, Humana Press Totowa, New Jersey. 2005.
• Harlow TL, Rodnitzky RL, Gonzalez-Allegre P.  From essential tremor to Klinefelter through fragile X, an unexpected journey. Movement Disorders  15:1328-1329, 2008
• Thomsen TR, Rodnitzky, RL. Juvenile Parkinsonism: epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. CNS Drugs 24:467-477, 2010
• Rodnitzky RL. The Cerebellum and Essential Tremor: Did Dr. Purkinje leave any fingerprints? Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (in press)