Valerie R. Suski , DO

Biography

  • Associate Professor of Neurology
  • Director, UPMC Huntington's Disease Clinic
  • Board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
  • NN102 SPRINT-MS, NN105 STAIR-HD, and NN110 ENLITE-PD Site Prinicipal Investigator

Dr. Suski is an active member of the Comprehensive Movement Disorders Clinic/Pittsburgh Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, providing evaluation and treatments to patients with a wide variety of movement disorders. She is director of the UPMC Huntington's Disease Clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic consisting of physicians, social workers, genetic counselors, and clinical trial coordinators that provides care for both Huntington's patients and their families. She is a member of the Huntington's Study Group and has participated in several Huntington's disease clinical trials.

Dr. Suski provides the services of the Movement Disorders Clinic through Telemedicine once a month to remote community locations where the subspeciality is needed. She is especially interested in non-motor complications in Parkinson's disease, atypical Parkinsonism, dystonia, tremor, and Huntington's disease. Dr. Suski remains extremely active in service to the Parkinson Support Group community in the Western Pennsylvania region.