My name is Christopher W Hess, MD, and I am an assistant professor of neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, and I also direct the Veterans Administration Parkinson's Disease Consortium Center at the North Florida/South Georgia VA Medical Center. I received my medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and completed my neurology residency, serving as chief resident, at Columbia University Medical Center. I completed subspecialty fellowship training in movement disorders at Columbia under Dr Stanley Fahn, with additional training in movement disorders, neurophysiology and intraoperative mapping for deep brain stimulation.