Ronald B. Postuma, M.D., earned his medical degree from the University of Manitoba. He also completed a clinical research fellowship with internal medicine training at the University of Manitoba and the University of Melbourne, a neurology fellowship at McGill University, a movement disorders research fellowship at the University of Toronto, and earned a masters in epidemiology at McGill University.
Postuma is a clinical researcher and movement disorders neurologist treating patients with Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. His research interest focuses on detecting early stages of Parkinson’s disease, particularly on detecting early stages of disease, examining the impact of non-motor symptoms on disease subtype and prognosis, and testing new treatments for non-motor manifestations such as sleep disorders. He co-directs the National Residents Course in movement disorders, serves as an executive of the educational committee of the Movement Disorders Society, and (with Daniela Berg) is co-chair of the MDS task force on the definition of Parkinson’s.
