Director, Movement Disorder Clinic and Tourette's Syndrome Clinic
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Phone: 513-636-4222
Fax: 513-636-3980
Email: donald.gilbert@cchmc.org
Clinical Interests
Movement disorders; Tourette's Syndrome; Sydenham's Chorea; kernicterus; dystonia; ataxia; clinical research; transcranial magnetic stimulation
Research Interests
Clinical trials in Tourette's Syndrome and associated ADHD; epidemiology of Tourette's Syndrome and PANDAS; clinical effectiveness of multi-drug treatments in Tourette's Syndrome; transcranial magnetic stimulation in Tourette's Syndrome and pediatric movement disorders; functional neurosurgery for pediatric dystonia
Biography
Donald Gilbert, MD, earned his Bachelor of Arts at Princeton University, where he majored in philosophy. He subsequently earned his MD at the University of Michigan and spent a year at the National Institutes of Health as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar. Dr. Gilbert did his pediatrics and neurology training at John Hopkins in Baltimore and is board certified in neurology with special competence in child neurology. Dr. Gilbert has an MS in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the University of Michigan.
At Cincinnati Children's, Dr. Gilbert directs the Movement Disorders and Tourette's Syndrome Clinics, which specialize in evaluation and pharmacologic treatment of tics, chorea, tremor, dystonia, stereotypies, ataxia, and other movement disorders. Dr. Gilbert directs or participates in a number of single and multi-center studies into causes and treatments of Tourette's Syndrome. Dr. Gilbert directs the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Laboratory at CCHMC.