Medical School:
Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Turkey, 1988
Residency:
Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Fellowship:
Movement Disorders Fellowship, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics
Certifications:
Neurology, 1997

Honors and Awards

• Elected to Scientific Review Committee of the Parkinson Study Group
• Co-chair of the Cognitive/Psychiatric Working Group of the Parkinson Study Group
• Elected to American Neurological Association membership
• Appointed to Committee on Safe Mobility of Older Persons (ANB60), Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
• Selected to Best Doctors database
• Predicting Driver Safety in Parkinson's Disease (RO1 NS44930-01)
  • News Release: Study Aims To Predict Driver Safety For Parkinson's Patients
  • UI Health Care News Feature (April 26, 2004)
• New Investigator Research Award, College of Public Health-College of Medicine, University of Iowa for the project "Predicting Driver Safety in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study" (January 2003)
• Scottish Rite Fellowship 1993-94

Professional Affiliations

• American Neurological Association
• Parkinson Study Group
• American Academy of Neurology
• Huntington Study Group
• Movement Disorder Society

Clinical Interests

• Specialty: Neurology and Movement Disorders
• Parkinson’s disease and related disorders
• Surgical treatment of movement disorders, deep brain stimulation (DBS)
• Botulinum toxin therapy
• Tremor
• Dystonia
• Huntington’s disease

Research Interests

• Driving and cognitive function in Parkinson's disease
• Body composition in Parkinson's disease
• Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia
• Investigational drugs in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders

Papers

1. Uc EY, Wenger DA, Jankovic J: Niemann-Pick Disease Type C: Two Cases and an Update. Movement Disorders, Volume 15(6): 1199-1203, 2000.
2. Uc EY, Dienel GA, Cruz NF, Harik SI. Beta-adrenergics enhance brain extraction of L-Dopa. Movement Disorders, 2002; 17(1):54-59.
3. Uc EY, Rodnitzky RL. Childhood dystonia. Seminars In Pediatric Neurology, 2003;10(1):52-61.
4. Uc EY, Rodnitzky RL. Juvenile parkinsonism. Seminars In Pediatric Neurology, 2003; 10(1):62-7.
5. Uc EY, Skinner RD, Rodnitzky RL, Garcia-Rill E. The midlatency auditory evoked potential P50 is abnormal in Huntington's Disease. Journal of Neurological Sciences, 2003; 212(1-2):1-5.
6. Uc EY, Lambert CP, Harik SI, Rodnitzky RL, Evans WJ. Albuterol improves response to levodopa and increases skeletal muscle mass in patients with fluctuating Parkinson's disease. Clinical Neuropharmacology, 2003; 26(4): 207-212.
7. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Shi Q, Dawson JD. Driver route-following and safety errors in early Alzheimer disease. (Abstract) Neurology. 2004; 63(5):832-7.
8. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson S, Shi Q, Dawson J. Route-following and safety errors by drivers with stroke. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Sciences) 2004; 1899:90-95.
9. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Shi Q, Dawson JD. Driver landmark and traffic sign identification in early Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 2005; 76(6):764-8.
10. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson S, Shi Q, Dawson J. Driver Identification of Landmarks and Traffic Signs After a Stroke. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (National Academy of Sciences), 2005; 1922:9-14.
11. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Shi Q, Anderson SW, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson J. Visual Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease without Dementia, Neurology, 2005; 65(12): 1907-13.
12. Uc EY, Struck LK, Rodnitzky RL, Zimmerman B, Dobson J, Evans WJ. Predictors of Weight Loss in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders, 2006; 21(7):930-36.
13. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson S, Shi Q, Dawson JD. Unsafe rear-end collision avoidance in Alzheimer's disease, J Neurol Sci, 2006 (in press).
14. Uc EY, Follett KA. Deep Brain Stimulation in Movement Disorders, Seminars in Neurology, 2006 (invited article, in press).
15. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Sparks J, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson JD. Impaired Visual Search in Drivers with Parkinson's Disease, Annals of Neurology, 2006 (in press).
16. Uc EY, Rizzo M, Anderson SW, Sparks J, Rodnitzky RL, Dawson JD. Driving with Distraction in Parkinson's Disease, Neurology, 2006 (in press).

Chapters

1. Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY. Approach to the Hypokinetic Patient. In: Biller J, editor. Practical Neurology. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1997: 299-311.
2. Afifi AK, Uc EY. Cortico-Subcortical Circuitries for Movement, Cognition, and Behaviour. In: Coffey CE and Brumback RA, editors. Textbook of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry. American Psychiatric Press, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1998: 65-100.
3. Uc EY, DeLeo A, Rodnitzky RL. Clinical Trials in Parkinson's Disease. In: Biller J and Bogousslavsky J, editors. Clinical Trials in Neurologic Practice.Blue Books of Practical Neurology. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001: 173-199.
4. Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY. Approach to the Hypokinetic Patient. In: Biller J, editor. Practical Neurology, 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002: 343-357.
5. Rodnitzky RL, Uc EY. Movement Disorders. In: Joynt RJ, Griggs RC editors. Baker's Clinical Neurology, CD-ROM. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, Philadelphia, 2003 & 2004 editions.
6. Lambert CP, Uc EY, Evans WJ. B₂-Adrenergic Agonists in the Treatment of Muscle Atrophy. In: Hofbauer KG, Anker DS, Inui A, Nicholson JR, editors. Pharmacotherapy of Cachexia. Boca Raton: CRC Press-Taylor & Francis Group, 2006: 311-324.
7. Uc EY, Rodnitzky RL Movement Disorders in Children. In: Coffey CE, Brumback RA, Rosenberg DR, Voeller KKS editors. Pediatric Neuropsychiatry. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006: 425-451.

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