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Medical School: Universidad del Norte
Residency: Beth Israel Medical Center
Fellowship: Beth Israel Medical Center

American Academy of Neurology, National LGBT Mentoring Program, University of Pennsylvania, Local Parkinson Study Group, International Parkinson's Foundation, National Pennsylvania Neurological Society, Local Puentes de Salud, University of Pennsylvania, Local The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, International Young Members Group of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, International

Hospital Privileges:

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
• Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
• Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Description of Research Expertise:

Site principal investigator for clinical trials in Movement Disorders.

Selected Publications:

Pahwa R, Isaacson S, Jimenez-Shaheed J, Malaty I, Deik A, Johnson R, Patni R: Impact of dyskinesia on activities of daily living in Parkinson's disease: Results from pooled phase 3 ADS-5102 clinical trials. Parkinsonism & related disorders : 2018.

Pullman M, Ortega R, Glickman A, Deik A, Raymond D, Marder K, Giladi N, Bressman S, Hagenah J, Bruggemann N, Saunders-Pullman R: Increased substantia nigra echogenicity in LRRK2 family members without mutations. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 33 (9): 1504-1505,2018.

Coughlin D, Bardakjian T, Spindler M, Deik A: Hereditary Myoclonus Dystonia: A Novel Variant and Phenotype Including Intellectual Disability. Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) 8 : 547,2018.

Sarva H, Miravite J, Swan M, Deik A, Raymond D, Severt W, Kopell B: A Case of Myoclonus-Dystonia Responding to Low-frequency Pallidal Stimulation. Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) 7 : 460,2017.

Swan M, Doan N, Ortega R, Barrett M, Nichols W, Ozelius L, Soto-Valencia J, Boschung S, Deik A, Sarva H, Cabassa J, Johannes B, Raymond D, Marder K, Giladi N, Miravite J, Severt W, Sachdev R, Shanker V, Bressman S, Saunders-Pullman R: Neuropsychiatric characteristics of GBA-associated Parkinson disease. Journal of the neurological sciences 370 : 63-69,2016.

Loaiza-Bonilla A, Jensen C, Shroff S, Furth E, Bonilla-Reyes P, Deik A, Morrissette J: KDR Mutation as a Novel Predictive Biomarker of Exceptional Response to Regorafenib in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Cureus 8 (2): e478,2016.

Miravite J, Deik A, Swan M, Sarva H, Kopell B, Severt W: Parkinsonism and dystonia in Lubag disease respond well to high pulse width/low-frequency globus pallidus interna DBS. Neurology. Clinical practice 5 (6): 480-483,2015.

Sarva H, Deik A, Swan M, Severt W: Freezing of gait after a hemorrhagic stroke can respond to venlafaxine and rivastigmine. Neurology. Clinical practice 5 (3): 267-269,2015.

Deik A, Johannes B, Rucker J, Brodie S, Deegan E, Landy K, Scelsa S, Saunders-Pullman R, Paisan-Ruiz C: Compound heterozygous PNPLA6 mutations cause Boucher-Neuhäuser syndrome with late-onset ataxia. Journal of Neurology 261 (12): 2411-23,2014.

Saunders-Pullman R, Fuchs T, San Luciano M, Raymond D, Brashear A, Ortega R, Deik A, Ozelius L, Bressman S: Heterogeneity in primary dystonia: lessons from THAP1, GNAL, and TOR1A in Amish-Mennonites. Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 29 (6): 812-8,2014.

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