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

Clinical Interests
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

Selected Recent 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.

Cooper G, Rodnitzky RL. The many forms of tremor. Postgraduate Medicine 108(1):57-70, 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, Skinner RD, Rodnitzky RL, Garcia-Rill E. The midlatency auditory evoked poential P50 in Huntington's disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 212:1-5, 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.

Gonzalez-Alegre P, Kelkar P, Rodnitzky RL. Isolated high-frequency jaw tremor relieved by botulinum toxin injections. Movement Disorders 21: 1049-1050, 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.

Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Sparks J, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson JD. Impaired navigation in drivers with Parkinson's disease. Brain (in press), 2007.

Recent Chapters
Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY: Movement Disorders. in Joynt, RJ and Griggs R (eds.) Baker's Clinical Neurology Lippincott Williams and Wilkens Philadelphia, 2003.

Dyken ME, Rodnitzky RL: Sleep Disorders in Hyperkinetic Syndromes. in Chokroverty S, Henning WA, Walters AS. (eds) Sleep and Movement Disorders, Butterworth Heineman, 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.

Address

Office location: 2151-A-1 RCP
Phone: 319-356-3424
E-mail: robert-rodnitzky@uiowa.edu