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Featured Scientific Advisory Committee Member
J. Timothy Greenamyre, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
Chief, Movement Disorders Division, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
J. Timothy Greenamyre, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Endowed Chair and Chief of Movement Disorders, and Director of the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND) and the American Parkinson Disease Association Advanced Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research at the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Greenamyre is board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Rochester and Emory University, before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 2005.
Dr. Greenamyre’s lab is interested in mechanisms that cause nerve cell death in disorders such as Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's and Alzheimer's diseases. With respect to Parkinson’s disease, he is interested in interactions between environmental toxins and genes that increase or decrease an individual’s susceptibility to developing the disease. His work focuses on mitochondrial impairment, oxidative damage and protein aggregation.
Dr. Greenamyre is a member of several professionals associations, including the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Neurological Association, the Movement Disorder Society and the Parkinson Study Group. He serves as an editor of several journals, including the Neurobiology of Disease, The Journal of Neuroscience, Movement Disorders, Experimental Neurology, Functional Neurology and the Handbook of Neurochemistry & Molecular Neurobiology. He is an ad hoc reviewer for several others including Cell, Nature Medicine and Nature Neuroscience.
In addition to his role on PDF’s Scientific Advisory Committee, Dr. Greeamyre is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Michael J. Fox Foundation and a member of the scientific advisory committee of the Cure Parkinson’s Project.
Among his professional honors, he has received the Roland B. Mackay Award (1986) and a research fellowship award (1990-1993) from the American Academy of Neurology and was a Mallinckrodt Scholar (1994-1997).
Dr. Greenamyre chaired the research grants subcommittee of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, and was a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Parkinson’s disease research agenda planning committee, the Parkinson’s disease implementation committee and the Neurological Sciences and Disorders B study section of NIH/NINDS (Neurological Institutes for Neurological Disorder and Stroke).
Dr. Greenamyre received his B.S. from Michigan State University and his M.D. and Ph.D., from the University of Michigan. He completed his neurology residency at the University of Michigan.
