Michael S. Okun received his M.D. with honors from the University of Florida. He was fellowship trained by Mahlon DeLong, Jerrold Vitek and Ray Watts at Emory University in Atlanta GA before moving to found the movement disorders program at the University of Florida. He is currently Chair of Neurology, Professor and Executive Director of the Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Florida Health College of Medicine. The UF Institute he co-founded with Kelly D. Foote, M....| Department of Neurology
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