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Role Of Genetic Discoveries In Disease Prevention: Hope Or Hype?

EK Tan

Dr EK Tan is a senior consultant neurologist and deputy medical director at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and a Professor at Duke-NUS medical school.

Dr Tan has served in various committees in the International Movement Disorders Society (MDS) and a founding member of the MDS Asian Oceanic Section.

He is in the strategic planning committee for the International Association of Parkinsonism and related disorders (IAPRD).

He has served as an associate editor in Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, European Journal of Neurology and Journal of Parkinson’s disease, among several others.

He has received various national and international accolades including the David Marsden lectureship and Yoshi Mizuno lectureship awards.

Dr Tan has broad research interest including epidemiology, neuroimaging, clinical and functional genomics and experimental therapeutics in Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and other movement disorders.