Ray Dorsey

Ray Dorsey
Alma mater
OccupationNeurologist

Earl Ray Dorsey is an American neurologist who leads the Center for the Brain & the Environment at the Atria Health and Research Institute.[1] Previously, he directed the Center for Health + Technology at the University of Rochester, chaired the international Huntington Study Group, and led the movement disorder division and neurology telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dorsey has studied and published results from programs related to movement disorders, including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease. In 2015, the White House named him as one of eight "Champions of change in the fight against Parkinson's disease".

Education

Dorsey earned his Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences at Stanford University. He subsequently received Doctor of Medicine and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine and the Wharton School. Dorsey completed his neurology residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in movement disorders and experimental therapeutics at the University of Rochester Medical Center.[2][3]

Career

In 2007, Dorsey and fellow neurologist Kevin Biglan started a telehealth program for Parkinson's patients in nursing homes. The duo published results from the program and continued to collaborate when Dorsey was at Johns Hopkins Medicine from 2010 to 2013. Dorsey was the director of the movement disorder division and neurology telemedicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.[3][4]

Dorsey returned to URMC in 2013 and became the director of the Center for Health + Technology in 2014.[5] There Dorsey led a smartphone application research study called mPower.[6] He and Suchi Saria were among co-authors of a research paper for the study published by JAMA Neurology, which was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and The Michael J. Fox Foundation.[7][8] Dorsey also helped lead URMC's Parkinson Disease Care New York, a statewide telemedicine program for people with Parkinson's disease.[9][10] In 2015, the White House named Dorsey as one of eight "Champions of change in the fight against Parkinson's disease".[11] At Rochester, Dorsey holds the David M. Levy Professorship of Neurology.[12]

From 2014 to 2018, Dorsey was the chair of the Huntington Study Group, an organization that seeks to find new treatments for those with Huntington's disease.[13] He co-wrote the books Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action (2020)[14][15] and The Parkinson's Plan: A New Path to Prevention and Treatment (2025),[1] which reached The New York Times Best Seller list in September 2025,[16][17] and which Publishers Weekly describes as a "prescriptive guide" of the disease.[18] Dorsey and co-author Michael S. Okun received the 2022 Tom Isaacs Award from The Cure Parkinson's Trust and the Van Andel Institute for their work related to the disease.[19] Combined, as of 2025, the two have published approximately 1,000 papers and treated 10,000 people with Parkinson's.[20] In Ending Parkinson's, Dorsey, Okun, and their co-authors called Parkinson's "a man-made pandemic".[21] Dorsey's research has been published in medical and economic journals, and featured in media outlets such as NPR, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.[11]

See also

Select publications

Books

  • Dorsey, Ray; Sherer, Todd; Okun, Michael S.; Bloem, Bastiaan R. (March 17, 2020). Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action. PublicAffairs (Perseus Books Group).
  • Dorsey, Ray; Okun, Michael S. (August 19, 2025). The Parkinson's Plan: A New Path to Prevention and Treatment. PublicAffairs.

References

  1. ^ a b Reddy, Sumathi (October 30, 2025). "What to Know About Chemicals and Parkinson's Disease". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. OCLC 781541372.
  2. ^ "Neurology Experimental Neurotherapeutics Fellowship". University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC).
  3. ^ a b Michaud, Mark (August 1, 2013). "New Neurology Appointments to Focus on Expanding Access at Home and Abroad". URMC.
  4. ^ Shute, Nancy (June 27, 2011). "The Parkinson's Doctor Will Video Chat With You Now". NPR.
  5. ^ "Telemedicine as Effective as In-Person Care for Parkinson's Disease". URMC. August 16, 2017.
  6. ^ Bailey, Brandon (July 27, 2015). "Software can turn your smartphone into a medical research tool". The Middletown Press. Hearst Communications. Traditional studies may only draw a few hundred participants, said Dr. Ray Dorsey, a University of Rochester neurologist who's leading the Parkinson's app study called mPower.
  7. ^ Johns Hopkins University:
  8. ^ Michaud, Mark. "Mobile Apps Could Hold Key to Parkinson's Research, Care". URMC. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  9. ^ Dahlberg, Brett (October 4, 2018). "Federal award establishes Parkinson's research center at URMC". WXXI-FM.
  10. ^ "Foundation Funding For Telehealth". Health Affairs. 37 (12). December 2018. OCLC 07760874.
  11. ^ a b Smith, Brad (March 23, 2015). "President Honors Rochester Doctor". WXXI-FM.
  12. ^ "Earl R. Dorsey, M.D." University of Rochester. Retrieved February 23, 2026.
  13. ^ Huntington Study Group:
  14. ^ Fitzgerald, Susan (February–March 2022). "How Pollution Affects Brain Health". Brain & Life. American Academy of Neurology.
  15. ^ "Book Review of "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Prescription for Action"". Journal of Parkinson's Disease. 10 (2): 743-744. April 2020.
  16. ^ Carpenter, Louise (November 27, 2025). "11 ways to reduce your risk of Parkinson's, according to experts". The Daily Telegraph. Two American doctors, Ray Dorsey and Michael Okun, are amongst the most eminent specialists in Parkinson's worldwide (and authors of the widely acclaimed Ending Parkinson's Disease). In their latest book, The Parkinson's Plan: A New Path to Prevention and Treatment, published this year and an immediate New York Times bestseller, they have repeated their warning.
  17. ^ "The New York Times Best Sellers". The New York Times.
  18. ^ "The Parkinson's Plan: A New Path to Prevention and Treatment". Publishers Weekly.
  19. ^ Tokar, Sofia (November 2, 2022). "Recent honors highlight Rochester faculty's professional achievements". University of Rochester.
  20. ^ Kristof, Nicholas (September 8, 2025). "The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson's May Be All Around Us". The New York Times.
  21. ^ Brody, Jane E. (July 20, 2020). "The Link Between Parkinson's Disease and Toxic Chemicals". The New York Times.

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