Susan Criswell, MD, MSCI

Susan Criswell, MD, MSCI, is a neurologist in the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center at Barrow Neurological Institute and is the Lonnie and Muhammad Ali Professor of Neurology at the Institute. She is board certified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Criswell’s clinical expertise includes the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, the Huntington Study Group, the Movement Disorder Society, and the Parkinson Study Group.

Dr. Criswell earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine in Omaha and her Master of Science degree in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her neurology residency and a movement disorders fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine.

Dr. Criswell is a physician-scientist in the Neuroepidemiology Research Program at Barrow. Her research focuses on the molecular, structural, and functional mechanisms of environmental neurotoxicity in Parkinsonian disorders. Dr. Criswell is a world leader in positron emission tomography (PET) to investigate manganese neurotoxicity. She has published her findings in leading clinical neurology and neurotoxicology journals.