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Shilpa Chitnis, MD., Ph.D, FAAN, FANA.,  is Professor of Neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. 

Dr. Chitnis graduated from medical school from Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India.  She then completed a Ph.D., graduate school program in Pharmacology from Tulane University medical center in New Orleans, Louisiana.  She completed a residency program in Neurology also at Tulane University and finally completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at Louisiana State University in New Orleans. She has been a practicing movement disorders neurologist for the past 18 years taking care of patients with various movement disorders including Parkinsonism, tremor, dystonia, chorea, myoclonus, ataxia, functional neurological disorders and gait disorders. She is considered an international expert in the clinical care of patients with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) devices. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).

She served as associate residency program director for the Neurology residency program for 10 years. She serves as fellowship director for movement disorders and in the past has led 12 fellowship programs in the Dept. of Neurology. She was the medical director of the deep brain stimulation program for movement disorder for over ten years. She is intricately involved in resident and fellow education. Dr. Chitnis is also the Director of the Faculty Mentoring Program for the Dept. of Neurology since August of 2020. 

She is a co-editor of two handbooks in the movement disorders field. She has authored many prominent publications in the field of movement disorders and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous Neurology journals including JAMA Neurology, Movement Disorders, Tremor and other hyperkinetic disordeers and Parkinsonism and related disorders to name a few. She serves on the editorial board of Clinical Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (CPRD) and is associate editor for neuromodulation for the Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements (TOHM) journal. 

Dr. Chitnis is one of the lead faculty and Chair of the leadership steering committee and the MDS-LEAP program, an international program developed by the movement disorders society (MDS) to engage young neurologists to train and take on leadership roles within MDS.  She is the Co-Chair of the San Francisco Match Committee for Movement Disorders. She serves on the sub group of undergraduate education committee (UES) for the american academy of Neurology (AAN), graduate education subcommittee (GES) for AAN and sections and subspecialty committee of the AAN.

 

Education

Residency
Tulane University School of Medicine (2002), Neurology
Fellowship
LSU Health Sciences Center (2003), Movement Disorders

Research Interest

  • Education research in movement disorders
  • Functional Movement Disorders/Functional Neurological Disorders (FMD/FND)
  • New and Emerging Therapies for Parkinson's Disease
  • on-going quality improvement in Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders/creative programming techniques for DBS
  • Psychosis and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's Disease

Publications

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Viewpoint on Milestones for Fellowship Training in Movement Disorders.
Ratliff JB, Schaefer SM, Chitnis S, Cooney JW, Hess CW, Okubadejo N, Shalash A, Moro E, Sue C, Pandey S, Pal PK, Yang L, Mov Disord 2022 Jul
APDM gait and balance measures fail to predict symptom progression rate in Parkinson's disease.
Dewey DC, Chitnis S, McCreary MC, Gerald A, Dewey CH, Pantelyat A, Dawson TM, Rosenthal LS, Dewey RB, Front Neurol 2022 13 1041014
Education Research: Enhancing Medical Student Interest in Careers in the Clinical Neurosciences Through a Hands-on Procedure Workshop
Collin Sanderson, Khadijah Mazhar, Mark P. Goldberg, Shilpa Chitnis, Ryan Hays, Hina Dave Neurology Education 2022
Dysarthria treatment for Parkinson's disease: one-year follow-up of SPEAK OUT!® with the LOUD Crowd®.
Behrman A, Cody J, Chitnis S, Elandary S, Logoped Phoniatr Vocol 2021 Aug 1-8
An Online Education Method for Movement Disorders during COVID-19: Opportunity and Experience.
Mahajan A, El-Nazer R, Chitnis S, Mov Disord 2021 May
 Management of Parkinson's Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities.
McDaniels B, Novak D, Braitsch M, Chitnis S. 2021
Lack of Accredited Clinical Training in Movement Disorders in Europe, Egypt, and Tunisia.
Tamás G, Fabbri M, Falup-Pecurariu C, Teodoro T, Kurtis MM, Aliyev R, Bonello M, Brozova H, Coelho MS, Contarino MF, Corvol JC, Dietrichs E, Ben Djebara M, Elmgreen SB, Groppa S, Kadastik-Eerme L, Khatiashvili I, Kostic V, Krismer F, Hassan Mansour A, Odin P, Gavriliuc O, Olszewska DA, Relja M, Scheperjans F, Skorvanek M, Smilowska K, Taba P, Tavadyan Z, Valante R, Vujovic B, Waldvogel D, Yalcin-Cakmakli G, Chitnis S, Ferreira JJ, J Parkinsons Dis 2020 Jul
Advanced MRI techniques for transcranial high intensity focused ultrasound targeting.
Shah BR, Lehman VT, Kaufmann TJ, Blezek D, Waugh J, Imphean D, Yu FF, Patel TR, Chitnis S, Dewey RB, Maldjian JA, Chopra R, Brain 2020 Jun
The Effect of SPEAK OUT! and The LOUD Crowd on Dysarthria Due to Parkinson's Disease.
Behrman A, Cody J, Elandary S, Flom P, Chitnis S, Am J Speech Lang Pathol 2020 May 1-18
Patient perceptions and knowledge of Parkinson's disease and treatment (KnowPD)
Meagen R.Salinas, Elizabeth J.Chambers, Travis Ho, Pravin Khemani, DaiWai M.Olson, Sonja Stutzman and Shilpa Chitnis CPRD 2020 3

Books

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Honors & Awards

  • Associate editor for Neuromodulation for tremor and other hyperkinetic disorders journal
    Reviews submitted articles and helps the editor make decisions about acceptance of appropriate articles. (2021)
  • International Parkinson disease and movement disorders society (IPDMDS)
    Leadership Program Director (MDS-LEAP) (2021)
  • MDS CME committee
    Serves on the CME committee to define CME activities for international MDS (2021)
  • MDS educational committee
    Serves on the international MDS education committee to define educational activities of the MDS (2021)
  • Oxford University Press (OUP), Deep Brain Stimulation: A Case-Based Approach
    Editor (2020)
  • American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
    Graduate Education Subcommittee member (2019)
  • Best Doctors of America
    National selection (2019-2020)
  • Clinical Parkinsonism Related Disorders
    Editorial Board Member (2019)
  • MDS-PAS Executive Committee Member
    Selected to serve on the movement disorders society's Pan American Section executive committee (2019-2023)
  • American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
    Sections and sub-specialty committee member (2018)
  • International Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Society
    Chair of the public relations and member engagement committee (2017-2019)
  • American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
    Fellow (FAAN) (2015)
  • American Neurological Association (ANA)
    Fellow (FANA) (2013)
  • Best Doctors of America
    National selection (2013-2016)
  • Oxford University Press (OUP): Movement Disorders
    Editor (2010)
  • Medical Advisory Board
    Dallas Area Parkinsonism Society (DAPS) (2009)
  • Medical Advisory Board
    Parkinson's Voice Project (PVP), Dallas (2008)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

  • American Academy of Neurology (1997)
  • Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) Society (2019)
  • International Parkinson's disease and movement disorders society (IPDMDS) (1997)