Class of 2026 Fellowship Directors
Andres Deik, MD, MSEd
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Andres Deik is a movement disorders specialist. He is an associate professor of clinical neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the director of experimental therapeutics and the program director of the Movement Disorder Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania’ s Parkinson’ s Disease and Movement Disorders Center. Dr. Deik is an expert in deep brain stimulation programming and botulinum toxin injections. He is an author of multiple peer-reviewed studies and is both site and principal investigator for various clinical trials in movement disorders.
Alice Flaherty, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts
Alice Flaherty is associate professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Mass General Brigham Neuroscience Institute, and director of the Movement Disorders Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital( MGH). At MGH, Dr. Flaherty serves as a clinician investigator on the hospital’ s brain stimulator unit, where she pursues her interest in the overlap between mood and movement disorders. Dr. Flaherty’ s research focuses on brain systems that control behavioral drives, and how these are influenced by various treatment interventions. She has authored numerous scientific papers and multiple books.
Marina de Koning-Tijssen, MD, PhD
University Medical Center Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
Marina de Koning-Tijssen is the head of the movement disorders section of the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Groningen( UMCG) and the chair of the UMCG Expertise Center for Movement Disorders Groningen, part of the European Reference Network for Rare Neurological Diseases. She is an expert in the field of hyperkinetic movement disorders like dystonia, tremor, tics and functional jerks. Dr. de Koning-Tijssen received training at Leiden University, Johns Hopkins University and the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, in London.
18 The Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders