Dr. Elmyra Encarnacion is the Director of the Plummer Movement Disorders Center at Scott & White in Temple. She is also an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Encarnacion received her bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. She received her medical degree from St. George's University Medical School, Grenada, West Indies. Dr. Encarnacion completed an internal medicine internship at Columbia University Medical School/St Luke's Hospital in New York, NY. She completed her neurology residency at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, IL, where she received an award in teaching. Dr. Encarnacion has been awarded Movement Disorder Fellowships from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, and University of South Florida/Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL.

Her patient care emphasis is Parkinson's disease, tremor and other movement disorders. Professional affiliations include the American Academy of Neurology and Movement Disorders Society.

 

Dr. Joohi Jimenez-Shahed joined the Scott & White Neurology faculty in August, 2008, at the University Medical Campus in Round Rock, TX. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and is board certified by the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry. She specializes in the care of patients with Movement Disorders.

Dr. Jimenez-Shahed received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. She completed her Neurology residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, and then a Movement Disorders fellowship at the Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic of Baylor College of Medicine.

She then joined the faculty of Baylor College of Medicine, where her clinical and research interests included management of both adults and children with movement disorders, membership in the Parkinson Study Group and Huntington Study Group, serving as Principal Investigator for both industry and investigator-sponsored clinical trials in Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, dystonia, and Tourette syndrome, and authorship of several papers and book chapters.

At Scott & White, Dr. Jimenez-Shahed is a member of the Plummer Movement Disorders Center, which is designated as a National Parkinson Foundation Care Center. She heads the Deep Brain Stimulator program and is developing a comprehensive Movement Disorders clinical research program to complement the clinical, education and outreach programs already in existence. Her clinical care interests are in all aspects of adult and pediatric movement disorders, with special focus on management with deep brain stimulation and botulinum toxin injections.

 

 

 

 

 

The priority of the PMDC is to provide comprehensive care for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and their care-partners.  The Center also provides outreach and education to communities and health care providers throughout Central Texas

 

This year’s 2010 Stardust Ball & Casino Gala Charity "USO Show"  will celebrate the Center’s accomplishments in the areas of Comprehensive Care and Community Education Programs, and will provide a special opportunity to raise funds for the PMDC to send allied healthcare providers (i.e. physicians; nurses; physical, occupational, speech and music therapists; and social workers) to attend programs such as the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) Allied Healthcare Team Training (ATTP II), a course that provides specialized, discipline-specific training in Parkinson’s Disease to healthcare professionals.  The Parkinson patient represents a vulnerable population whose quality of life depends on how well their healthcare providers are trained to work with them and meet their unique needs. 

 

 

 

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