Movement Disorders

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Dr Victor Fung is Clinical Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney and Director of the Movement Disorders Unit and Co-Director of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
He is President of the Movement Disorder Society of Australia (MDSA) and serves on the International Executive Committee, Congress Scientific Program Committee, Education Committee, Bylaws Committee and Web Editorial Board of the international Movement Disorder Society (MDS). He is Secretary of the Asian & Oceanian Section of the MDS and has previously served on its Education Committee. He is on the Editorial Board of Basal Ganglia and previously Movement Disorders. He was the founding Chairperson of the MDSA Clinical Research and Trials Group from 2001-2007 and on the Management Board of Neuroscience Trials Australia from 2003-2007. He is a member of the Parkinson's Australia Scientific Committee and Parkinson's NSW Advisory Board.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
He has a clinical and research interest in Parkinson's disease and movement disorders, with an emphasis on the neurophysiological correlates of clinical phenomenology, and clinical and therapeutic trials.