Episode 28: Autonomic Problems

Dr. Tanya (Tatyana) Gurevich is a recognized specialist in the field of Neurology, movement disorders and neuroautonomic disturbances. She is a director of the interdisciplinary movement disorders unit, Parkinson’s foundation center of excellence, at the Neurological Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. Main areas of her research include development and refinement of the interventions for different aspects and stages of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, with a special focus on the treatment of dysautonomic manifestations, and implementation of the interactive multidisciplinary strategy for comprehensive disease management and the empowerment of patients and their families. Dr. Gurevich also focuses on collaborative clinical research of the lesser-known movement disorders (Multiple System Atrophy and others). She is a principal investigator in a number of clinical trials and receives competitive grants for the research support.

Dr. Gurevich is a senior lecturer at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University and a faculty member of the Sagol Neuroscience School. She earned her MD from the Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Pediatric Medical University, Russia, followed by a double residency in Neurology (Faculty of Neurology at the Leningrad Pediatric Medical University, Russia and then Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Israel). Dr. Gurevich completed a clinical fellowship in movement disorders in the Department of Neurology at Innsbruck Medical University, Austria, and a visiting physician program in the autonomic disorders in the Autonomic Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Dr Gurevich serves as a member of the Medical Advisory Boards of the Israeli Parkinson's Association, Jerusalem Tikvah4Pakinson organization and Israeli Huntington’s disease association.