Co-founder | Alliance for Patient Access
Vice-Chair of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
David Charles, MD, is a founding member and Chief Medical Officer of the Alliance for Patient Access (AfPA). He is Professor and Vice-Chair of Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he is a national leader in movement disorders research. His work focuses on the treatment of spasticity and cervical dystonia, and he currently leads the only clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test deep brain stimulation in people with early-stage Parkinson’s disease.
Dr. Charles served as a Health Policy Fellow on the staff of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee for Public Health and Safety, and afterward conducted Parkinson’s disease research in France as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association, and earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
