Richard Dewey, M.D.

Dr. Dewey was trained in Neurology and Movement Disorders at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He joined the neurology faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center in July, 1994 where he helped to create the Clinical Center for Movement Disorders which he directs. Dr. Dewey has been involved in a number of clinical research projects in the field of movement disorders. His primary clinical interests are in the diagnosis and management of Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and other involuntary movement disorders.

Medical School	Baylor College of Medicine (1989)
Internship	St. Joseph's Hospital (1990), Transitional Internship
Residency	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (1993), Neurology
Fellowship	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (1994), Movement Disorders

• Movement Disorders
• Neurology
• Neurosciences

• Primary Interests
• Ataxia
• Ballism
• Blepharospasm
• Cerebellar Ataxia
• Chorea
• Dystonia
• Hemiballism
• Hemifacial Spasm
• Huntington's Disease
• Meige Syndrome
• Myoclonus
• Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy (OPCA)
• Pallidotomy
• Parkinson's Disease
• Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
• Shy Drager Syndrome
• Spasmodic Dysphonia
• Spasmodic Torticollis
• Striatal Nigral Degeneration
• Tardive Dyskinesia
• Thalamotomy
• Torticollis
• Tourette's Disease Syndrome
• Wilson's Disease

• Therapeutics and disease mechanisms in disorders of the basal ganglia

Featured Publications

A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of subcutaneously-injected apomorphine for Parkinsonian off-states

Dewey RB Jr, Hutton, JT, LeWitt PA, Factor SA. Arch Neurol 2001 58 1385-1392

Treatment of drug-induced psychosis with quetiapine and clozapine in Parkinson's disease

Dewey RB Jr, O'Suilleabhain PE Neurology 2000 55 1753-1754

Clinical Outcome of Unilateral Stereotactic Pallidotomy without Microelectrode Recording for Intractable Parkinson's Disease.

Dewey RB Jr, Giller CA, Broline SK, Mendelsohn DB, Lacritz LH, Cullum CM. Parkinsonism Rel Dis 2000 6 7-16

Long-term follow-up of levodopa responsiveness in generalized dystonia

Dewey RB Jr, Muenter MD, Kishore A, Snow BJ. Arch Neurol 1998 55 1320-1323

A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of intranasal apomorphine spray as a rescue agent for off-states in Parkinson's disease

Dewey RB Jr, Maraganore DM, Ahlskog JE, Matsumoto JY. Mov Disord 1998 13 782-787

Practice Parameter: Therapies for essential tremor, Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

Zesiewicz TA, Elble R, Louis ED, Hauser RA, Sullivan KL, Dewey RB Jr., Ondo WG, Gronseth GS, Weiner WJ. Neurology 2005 64 2008-2020

Pergolide use in Parkinson disease is associated with cardiac valve regurgitation

Baseman DG, O’Suilleabhain PE, Reimold SC, Laskar SR, Baseman JG, Dewey RB Jr. Neurology 2004 63 301-304

A randomized trial of amantadine in Huntington's disease

O'Suilleabhain PE, Dewey RB Jr. Arch Neurol 2003 60 996-998

A controlled trial of rotigotine monotherapy in early Parkinson's disease

Parkinson Study Group (Dewey RB Jr participating author and investigator) Arch Neurol 2003 60 1721-1728

Contributions of dopaminergic drugs and disease severity to daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease

O'Suilleabhain PE, Dewey RB, Jr. Arch Neurol 2002 59 986-989

• Best Doctors in America
  (2002)
• Neurology teaching award
  for excellence in teaching residents and medical students (1995)
• Alpha Omega Alpha
  Baylor College of Medicine (1988)
• Phi Beta Kappa
  Duke University (1984)

• Dallas County Medical Society
• Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
• Movement Disorders Society
• Parkinson Study Group
• Texas Medical Association