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    Svjetlana Miocinovic, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Emory University

    Dr. Svjetlana Miocinovic is a board-certified neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, tremor and other movement disorders. She also directs a human electrophysiology laboratory dedicated to the study of movement disorders and deep brain stimulation. She earned her BS in Biology and Engineering & Applied Sciences in 2000 from Caltech (Pasadena, California). She graduated from medical school in 2009 at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio) where she also obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering. She completed neurology residency and clinical movement disorders fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, Texas). Her post-doctoral training and clinical research fellowship were at the University of California San Francisco Movement Disorder and Neuromodulation Center. In 2016, she joined the Department of Neurology at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia). She is a program faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Emory. She is also an investigator with Emory's Udall Parkinson's Disease Research Center of Excellence. Her research focus is on electrophysiology of human motor and non-motor circuits, and development of new device-based therapies. Her clinical focus is on delivering expert patient care and using neuromodulation to treat movement disorders.

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