Donald L. Gilbert

Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology,
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Donald Gilbert MD MS FAAN FAAP is a Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Gilbert earned his Bachelor of Arts at Princeton University, where he majored in philosophy. He earned his MD and a Master’s of Science in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis at the University of Michigan. Dr. Gilbert completed his clinical residency training in child neurology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Dr. Gilbert founded the Movement Disorders and Tourette Syndrome Clinics and the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation laboratory. His clinical expertise is in evaluation and pharmacologic treatment of children and adolescents with tics, chorea, tremor, dystonia, stereotypies, ataxia, and other movement disorders. Dr. Gilbert directs or participates in a number of single and multi-center studies of physiology of motor control in neurobehavioral disorders and of clinical trials for Tourette syndrome and movement disorders. He has published over 150 peer reviewed papers including multiple studies and commentaries regarding the child neurology workforce and child neurology education. He served as residency Program Director for 11 years, garnering the American Academy of Neurology Program Director Award and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Parker Palmer Courage to Teach awards. He currently serves as an Associate Director in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Cincinnati. His roles in national organizations have included chair of the American Academy of Neurology Child Neurology Section, Secretary/Treasurer of the Professors and Educators of Child Neurology, Councilor for the Midwest for the Child Neurology Society, and Section on Neurology Executive Committee member for the American Academy of Pediatrics.