About the Editors
Lawrence I. Golbe, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Neurology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. He has worked closely with CurePSP since 1992, currently as Director of Clinical Affairs, a member of its Board of Directors, and chair of its Medical Advisory and Scientific Advisory Boards. He graduated from Brown University and New York University School of Medicine and completed residency training at NYU / Bellevue. He was the first to measure the prevalence of PSP and to assess its epidemiological risk factors. He devised the PSP Rating Scale, which, since its publication in 2007, has become the standard clinical measure and treatment outcome marker for PSP worldwide. He has a referral practice for patients with PSP and CBD and conducts multiple ongoing research studies in PSP. He is the author of the 2019 book, A Clinician’ s Guide to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
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Diane Breslow, MSW, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Illinois. She has worked with CurePSP since the early 2000s, when she served on the organization’ s multidisciplinary advisory board and participated in the Midwest Family Conference. She has been an active member of CurePSP’ s Patient Carepartner Advocacy Committee( PCAC) since 2015. In 2018, she became the organization’ s Social Work Clinical and Education Consultant. In that role, she develops and oversees the Committee’ s initiatives, consults to patients and families, and writes educational materials. Diane graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia and received her master’ s degree, with a specialty in family therapy, from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Throughout her career, Diane has applied her expertise in family dynamics to helping improve the quality of life for individuals and families affected by movement disorders.