Movement Disorders Program

Dr. Ebrahimi-Fakhari directs the Movement Disorders Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. The team at the Movement Disorders Program provides specialty care for infants, children, and adolescents with genetic and acquired movement disorders. The team includes neurologists with special training in movement disorders, genetic counselors, physical and occupational therapists, and social workers. We work together to develop a treatment plan that meets every child’s unique needs and maximizes quality of life.

The treatment portfolio also includes specialized procedures, such as the treatment of spasticity and dystonia with botulinum toxin injections, and the treatment of dystonia and other hyperkinetic movement disorders with Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).

Specialists in the Movement Disorders Program lead several research programs and clinical trials that work synergistically with our clinical care. We collaborate closely with clinicians and researchers across North America and internationally.

Boston Children’s Hospital – Movement Disorders Program

The Movement Disorders Program at Boston Children’s Hospital offers a unique clinical fellowship in Pediatric Movement Disorders & Neurogenetics The goal of this clinical training program is to provide fellows with the skills to become experts in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric movement disorders, with a particular focus on genetic movement disorders. The core component of the clinical education consists of evaluating patients in the Boston Children’s Hospital Movement Disorders Program and select clinics within the Movement Disorders Divisions at Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Clinical activities are overseen by faculty with sub-specialty training in movement disorders. The program also includes training in neurogenetics, rare disease research, precision medicine approaches, and specialized techniques and procedures for movement disorders, such as deep brain stimulation and botulinum toxin injections.

We hope to train the next generation of physician-scientists in cutting edge clinical care, translational research and hope for our fellows to become leaders in the field of pediatric movement disorders.

Current Fellows

Vicente Quiroz, M.D.

Clinical Fellow, Movement Disorders Program, Class of 2024

Residency
Pediatric Neurology 2021
University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile

Kathryn Yang, MBChB, FRCPC

Clinical Fellow, Movement Disorders Program, Class of 2025

Residency
Pediatric Neurology 2023
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, CA

Zainab Zaman, MBBS

Clinical Fellow, Movement Disorders Program, Class of 2026 (incoming fellow)

Residency
Child Neurology and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities 2024
Boston Children’s Hospital

Monica Ferrer Socorro, M.D.

Clinical Fellow, Movement Disorders Program, Class of 2026 (incoming fellow)

Residency
Child Neurology 2025
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

For more information on applying to our fellowship program, please visit BCH’s Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Movement Disorders & Neurogenetics page.

Clinical Fellowship in Pediatric Movement Disorders & Neurogenetics

Tri-Institutional Seminar Series on Pediatric Movement Disorders 2024-2025

This seminar series is organized between the Pediatric Movement Disorders Programs at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C..

Date	Speaker	Topic
9/5/24	Course Directors: Carolina Gorodetsky, MD (SickKids) Laura Tochen, MD (Children's National) Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD (BCH)	Introduction to the classification and phenomenology of childhood-onset movement disorders
9/12/24	Carolina Gorodetsky, MD (SickKids) Laura Tochen, MD (Children's National) Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD (BCH)	Introduction to symptomatic management of childhood-onset movement disorders
9/19/24	Carolina Gorodetsky, MD The Hospital for Sick Children	Introduction to deep brain stimulation
10/10/24	Jonathan Mink, MD, PhD University of Rochester Medical Center	Transient or developmental Movement Disorders and Stereotypies
10/24/24	Travis Larsh, MD Cincinnati Children's Hospital	Functional Movement Disorders
10/31/24	Tamara Pringsheim, MD Alberta Children's Hospital	Tics & Tourette Syndrome (3 pm EST)
11/07/24	Rebecca Lindsay, MD Alberta Children's Hospital	Resident Case Presentation
12/05/24	Kathryn Yang, MBChB Boston Children's Hospital	Management of Status Dystonicus
12/12/24	Jennifer O'Malley, MD Stanford Medicine Children's Health	Deep Brain Stimulation in the Treatment of Dystonia (3pm EST)
12/19/24	Carolina Gorodetsky, MD The Hospital for Sick Children	Deep Brain Stimulation for Status Dystonicus
1/16/25	Todd Herrington, MD Massachusetts General Hospital	Research and Clinical Trials in Deep Brain Stimulation
1/23/25	Fellow from Boston Children's Hospital	Fellow Case Presentation
1/30/25	Terence Sanger, MD Children's Hospital of Orange County	Deep Brain Stimulation in Cerebral Palsy (3 pm EST)
2/6/25	Angela Hewitt, MD University of Rochester Medical Center	Childhood-Onset Dystonia
2/13/25	Weston Northam, MD Boston Children's Hospital	An Approach to Surgical Management of Spasticity
2/20/25	Fellow from The Hospital for Sick Children	Fellow Case Presentation
2/27/25	Maria-Roser Pons, MD Agia Sofia Hospital, University of Athens	Infantile and Early Childhood Parkinsonism
3/6/25	Lisette Koens, MD University Medical Center Groningen	Myoclonus in Pediatric Movement Disorders
3/20/25	Fellow from Boston Children's Hospital	Fellow Case Presentation
3/27/25	Vicente Quiroz, MD University of Valparaiso	The Spectrum of Epilepsy-Dyskinesia Syndromes
4/3/25	Amy Viehoever, MD Washington University in St. Louis	Overview of GNAO1 and Current Research Developments
4/24/25	Shekeeb Mohammad, MD University of Sydney	Autoimmune-Mediated Movement Disorders (4 pm EST)
5/1/25	David Lynch, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Overview of Friedreich's Ataxia
5/8/25	Fellow from The Hospital for Sick Children	Fellow Case Presentation
5/15/25	Laura Tochen, MD Children's National Hospital	Movement Disorders in Pediatric Leukodystrophies
5/29/25	Lifang Dai, MD Beijing Children's Hospital	Pediatric Movement Disorders from a Single Center in China
6/5/25	Penny Hogarth, MD Oregon Health & Science University	Overview of Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration (PKAN) (3 pm EST)
6/12/25	Joshua Burns, PhD St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	Digital Outcome Measures in Movement Disorders

Below is the schedule for the previous season:

2023-24

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	Speaker	Topic
9/14/2023	Course Directors: Carolina Gorodetsky, MD (SickKids) Laura Tochen, MD (Children’s National) Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD (BCH	Introduction to the classification, phenomenology, andsymptomatic management of childhood-onset movement disorders
9/28/2023	Carolina Gorodetsky, MD The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto	Introduction to deep brain stimulation
10/12/2023	Daniel Lumsden, MB/BChir, PhD, FRCPCH Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London	Management of dystonia including status dystonicus
10/26/2023	Movement Disorders Fellows/Faculty	Case Conference 1
11/09/2023	Jonathan Mink, MD, PhD University of Rochester, Rochester	Transient or developmental movement disorders and stereotypies
12/14/2023	Emmanuel Roze, MD, PhD Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris	The paroxysmal dyskinesias with a focus on ADCY5-related disorder
1/11/2024	Movement Disorders Fellows/Faculty	Case Conference 2
1/18/2024	Mohamad A. Mikati, MD Duke University, Durham	The movement disorder spectrum of ATP1A3-related disorder
1/25/2024	Donald L. Gilbert, MD, MS Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati	Tics & Tourette's syndrome
2/1/2024	Bhooma Aravamuthan, MD, DPhil Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis	Movement disorders in cerebral palsy
2/15/2024	Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston	Epilepsy-dyskinesia syndromes
2/22/2024	Movement Disorders Fellows/Faculty	Case Conference 4
3/14/2024	Movement Disorders Fellows/Faculty	Case Conference 5
3/21/2024	Manju Kurian, MBBChir, PhD, MRCPCH Great Ormond Street Hospital, London	Neurotransmitter Disorders
3/28/2024	Miryam Carecchio, MD, PhD University of Padova, Padova	KMT2B-related disorder
4/11/2024	Anne Koy, MD University Hospital Cologne, Cologne	GNAO1-related disorder
4/18/2024	Movement Disorders Fellows/Faculty	Case Conference 6
4/25/2024	Toni Pearson, MBBS Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus	Principles of gene therapy for movement disorders
5/16/2024	Thomas Klopstock, MD Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich	Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA) - Novel therapeutic approaches
5/30/2024	Movement Disorders Fellows/Faculty	Case Conference 7
6/13/2024	Movement Disorders Fellows/Faculty	Case Conference 8
6/20/2024	Juan Darío Ortigoza-Escobar, MD, PhD Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, Barcelona	Movement disorders in inborn errors of metabolism
6/27/2024	Samuel Frank, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston	Approach to Huntington's Disease, including juvenile-onset forms