Allison Brashear, MD, MBA
Vice President for Health Sciences
Dean, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Professor, Neurology

Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, vice president for Health Sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo sheds light on the how collaboration between scientists and physicians identified the first family with symptoms from the ATP1A3 gene and related neurologic disorders symptoms. This ultimately became a cross-continental effort to identify patients with the often underdiagnosed three most prevalent ATP1A3-related neurologic disorders - Rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism (RDP), Alternating hemiplegia of childhood (ACH), and Cerebellar ataxia, areflexia, pes cavus, optic atrophy, and sensorineural hearing loss (CAPOS). Dr. Brashear continues research in this area as part of a five-year, $3.3 million National Institutes of Health-funded clinical study on the Clinical Genetic and Cellular Consequences of Mutations in ATP1A3.

Morgann Clark Schaefer
Email: morgannc@buffalo.edu