Dr. Ilana Schlesinger is the Chair of Neurology of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel and Director of the Movement Disorders Institute at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel. She founded in collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery the Center for MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment of Movement Disorders. She, together with her team, were pioneers in this field publishing the first case series describing the use of this technology for symptomatic treatment of tremor dominant Parkinson’s disease. Her main research and clinical interests relate to novel treatments for movement disorders. She has published numerous papers on Movement Disorders including a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. She and has been invited as a speaker in numerous international meetings.
