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Dr. Alberto Espay, MD, is a professor and endowed chair of the University of Cincinnati James J. and Joan A. Gardner Family Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. He trained in neurology at Indiana University as well as in clinical and electrophysiology of movement disorders at the University of Toronto, where he obtained a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology and healthcare research. A prolific researcher and author, Dr. Espay have published more than 250 peer-reviewed research articles, 25 book chapters, and seven books. His most recent is the first targeting the general public, Brain Fables. Dr. Espay has served as chair of the Movement Disorders Section of the American Academy of Neurology; associate editor of Movement Disorders, the official journal of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS); and on the executive committee of the Parkinson Study Group. He currently serves as chair of the MDS Technology Task Force and as secretary of the Pan-American Section of the MDS. Dr. Espay is also an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Neurology.