[WCN21;101;699]

The Botulinum Toxin in Facial Expression

Daniel Truong

Dr. Daniel Truong graduated from the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany. He is certified in neurology and psychiatry before coming to the US and completed his residency in neurology at the Medical University of South Carolina. Afterward, he received fellowship training in Movement Disorders at Columbia University, USA with Prof. Stanley Fahn and at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases at Queen Square, UK with the late Prof. David Marsden.

He is currently at the University of California, Riverside as a Clinical Professor and the Parkinson and Movement Disorder Institute at Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in California.

He is currently the President of the International Association Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurological Sciences. Dr. Truong serves on several committees in various professional societies.

He has edited many special issues on topics included tardive dyskinesia, botulinum toxin and Parkinsonism. Dr. Truong has published several textbooks and peer- review articles. He conducted many international multicenter trials on Parkinson's disease and botulinum toxin as principal investigator. For his work on Myoclonus, he received the Franz Burda Award (Austria) in 2017.