Dr. Anthony Lang is an international leader in the neuroscience field of movement disorders. His broad-based, highly cited, transformative award-winning research contributions span the fields of clinical evaluation, genetics, epidemiology, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, neuropathology, neuropharmacology, rating scales, clinical trials and functional neurosurgery. His work has been extremely influential on all aspects of current international standards of medical and surgical care for Parkinson’s disease, has helped define and understand previously unrecognized or poorly characterized features of Parkinson’s disease and a wide variety of other neurological diseases causing movement disorders and has positively impacted the quality of life of patients throughout the world.