Sharon Hassin-Baer

A neurologist and Movement Disorders (MD) specialist, the director of one of the largest MD centers in the Middle East, placed at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center (SMC), located in Ramat Gan, 10 kilometers from Tel-Aviv, in Israel.
She finished her medical studies at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University (TAU), and residency in the Department of Neurology, at SMC (1991-1997). Following a MD fellowship, she founded the Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Movement Disorders Clinic in 1999, which became the Movement Disorders Institute in 2014, a center of knowledge and excellence in clinical care and research, implementing advanced and unique treatment methodologies for movement disorders.
Her research has been focused on PD as well as neurogenetic movement disorders. Since 2016 she is an associate professor of Neurology at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, TAU, and since 2019 she is the chair of the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at TAU.