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Faculty Detail     Name VICTOR WAI-DA SUNG Director, UAB Huntington's Disease Clinic Associate Director, UASOM Medical Student Neurology Clerkship   Campus Address SC 360 Zip 0017 Phone 205-934-0683 E-mail vsung@uab.edu Other websites https://www.uab.edu/medicine/neurology/faculty/sung Career Advisor

Education Undergraduate  Vanderbilt University    2001  BS, Neuroscience  Medical School  UT-Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas    2005  MD  Residency  UAB    2009  Neurology Residency  Fellowship  UAB    2011  Movement Disorders

Certifications American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology  2009

Faculty Appointment(s) Appointment Type Department Division Rank Primary  Neurology   Neurology Chair Office Assistant Professor

Biographical Sketch  Victor Sung, a native of Houston, TX, graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a minor in music in 2001. He received his medical degree from UT-Southwestern in Dallas in 2005. He completed his general intern year at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, TX, where he was named Outstanding Overall Intern. He completed residency training in neurology at UAB in 2009, during which time he was elected to membership of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and received the Argus Award for Best Neurology Resident. He completed a VA National Quality Scholars Fellowship and a Movement Disorders Fellowship in 2011. He currently serves as Director of the UAB Huntington's Disease Clinic, Director of the Birmingham VA Medical Center Stroke Center, Director of the UAB School of Medicine Neurology Clerkship, and Assistant Director of the Birmingham VA Medical Center Quality Scholars Fellowship.

Society Memberships Organization Name Position Held Org Link American Academy of Neurology      Movement Disorders Society

Research/Clinical Interest Title Description Neurodegenerative disorders, specifically in cognitive and other non-motor features of Parkinson's Disease and Huntington's Disease Quality improvement in outpatient neurology care

Selected Publications  Publication PUBMEDID Isolated CNS Whipple Disease with normal brain MRI and false-positive CSF 14-3-3 protein: a case report and review of the literature.  23170246  Sensitivity and specificity of stroke symptom questions to detect stroke or transient ischemic attack  21311197  Elevated plasma homocysteine level in patients with Parkinson disease: motor, affective, and cognitive associations  15210523

Keywords Huntington's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Quality improvement

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