David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, professor of neurology at UAB, has been named to the John T. and Juanelle D. Strain Endowed Chair in Neurology by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama system. Standaert is also the director of the division of movement disorders in the Department of Neurology and the director of the UAB Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics. He is the endowed chair's inaugural holder. Standaert graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1982 and earned his medical and doctoral degrees from Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, in 1988. He conducted a fellowship at Harvard Medical School and spent 11 years on the faculty there before joining UAB last July. Standaert is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the American Parkinson Disease Association, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation. January 2007