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Mark A. Hirsch, PhD, FACRM, FPRD

Senior Scientist
Atrium Health
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Dr. Mark A. Hirsch is a Research Scientist in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Carolinas Rehabilitation, Atrium Health. He obtained his PhD degree (1996) based on a thesis titled: "Activity-dependent enhancement of balance in Parkinson's disease" at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Between 1996 and 1999, he received training as a neurorehabilitation scientist during a National Institutes of Health T32 fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with Barbara deLateur, MD. Dr. Hirsch gained an international reputation in motor rehabilitation and movement disorders during Associateship training with Harald Hefter, MD, PhD at Department of Neurology, Dusseldorf University, Germany. In 2004, he joined the Carolinas Rehabilitation Faculty. Together with Atrium Health Neurosciences, Carolinas Rehabilitation, LiveWELL Health Center and local branches of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, he developed RENEW Carolinas Parkinson Initiative (Research and Education in NEuro-Wellness) which in 2011, received funding from the Park Foundation. Dr. Hirsch is the past Chair of the Parkinson Association of the Carolinas and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Parkinsonism and Related Disorders and Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation. His main research interests focus on participatory medicine and social capital, with emphasis on Parkinson’s disease. Various projects examine patients-as-partners, the experiences of individuals with Parkinson’s disease during exercise, and the implementation and evaluation of complex interventions. Additional projects focus on motor coordination and evaluation of early features of movement disorders on gait, balance and falls. Dr. Hirsch has published over 50 scientific papers, book chapters and abstracts.

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