William G. Ondo MD

Summary

• William George Ondo, MD, is the Director of the Movement Disorder Clinic at the Houston Methodist Hospital, and is a Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medical School and Texas A&M. His medical degree was awarded by the Medical College of Virginia (Richmond, Virginia), and he completed an internship at the University of North Carolina Hospital (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), and a neurology residency at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina). In 1995, Dr. Ondo undertook a Movement Disorders fellowship with Dr. Jankovic and joined the Baylor faculty for 19 years, then later was a Professor at the University of Texas Medical Science Center-Houston in Houston, Texas for 5 years.
  Dr. Ondo is interested in all areas of adult and pediatric movement disorder research and has served as primary, treating, and sub-investigator for many research projects involving those disease states. He has authored more than 330 original articles, review articles, and book chapters, and has edited four text books on Movement Disorders. He has also served on numerous editorial boards, speaker bureaus, study groups, and has lectured widely. Dr. Ondo has participated in more than 100 clinical trials in Parkinson’s disease, tremor, restless legs syndrome, dystonia, Huntington’s disease, tardive dyskinesia, and other movement disorders. His current research interests include Parkinson’s disease, restless legs syndrome, tremor, and the use of botulinum toxins.