Dr. Okun & promising UF medical student receive AAN History of Neurology award

At the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) in Honolulu Dr. Michael S. Okun, co-director of the UF Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration, along with Lauren Bowen, one of our promising medical students who matched here for her Neurology residency, received the AAN’s Lawrence C. McHenry: An Award for the History of Neurology. The award recognizes excellence in research in the history of neurology.

The annual meeting continues through this week with more than 2,000 educational and research presentations on prevention and treatment of brain disorders. Upon return from AAN, Dr. Okun, along with co-director Dr. Foote and the rest of the Movement Disorders team will be celebrating the grand opening of the new UF Center for Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration on the 4th floor of the UF Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Institute.