Robert Chen

Dr. Chen received his MA and medical degrees (MBBChir) with distinction from the University of Cambridge (U.K.) in 1989, and M.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto in 1992. He undertook internship at Guy’s Hospital (University of London, U.K.), residency in Internal Medicine at Queen’s University (Canada) and residency in Neurology at the University of Western Ontario followed by three years of fellowship training in human motor control and movement disorders at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He is board certified in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology and sub-specializes in movement disorders. In 1998 he joined the faculty of the University of Toronto and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003. In 2006 he was appointed the Catherine Manson Chair in Movement Disorders. He is also a Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Research Institute and is a full member of the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.

His research interests are human motor physiology, brain plasticity and pathophysiology of movement disorders. He has made significant contributions in these areas and have published over 370 research papers with a Google Scholar H-index of 105. He published a book and edited two books in 2022. He is an expert in the pathophysiology of movement disorders, transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial ultrasound stimulation and has given over 230 invited lectures. He has had continuous research funding from the Medical Research Council of Canada/Canadian Institutes of Health Research since 1998. He currently holds research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson Research and the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation.

Dr. Chen is the Director of the Department of Medicine Clinician Scientist Training Program.