James F Morley, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center
Staff Neurologist, Philadelphia VA Medical Center
Associate Director , University of Pennsylvania/PADRECC Movement Disorders Fellowship Program.
Director, Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center. Crescenz VA Medical Center
Department: Neurology
Contact information
Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center
3900 Woodland Ave.
Mail Stop 127
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3900 Woodland Ave.
Mail Stop 127
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-823-5934
Email:
james.morley@uphs.upenn.edu
james.morley@uphs.upenn.edu
Education:
B.S.
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
Ph.D.
Northwestern University, 2003.
M.D.
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2005.
Permanent linkB.S.
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
Ph.D.
Northwestern University, 2003.
M.D.
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2005.
Selected Publications
Waddell, K.J., Smith, M., Wood S., Patel, M., Greysen, S.R., Morley J.F.: Remote, Automated, Gamification Increases Community-Based Physical Activity in Parkinson’s Disease JAMA Neurology 83(1): 88, 2026.Kannartkat, G, Zack, R, Skrinak, R, Morley, J,Davila-Rivera, R, Arezoumandan, S, Dorfman, K, Luk, K, Weintraub, D, Tropea, T, Lee, E, Lee, V, Irwin, D, Akhtar, R, Chen-Plotkin, A : Blood α-synuclein separates Parkinson’s disease from dementia with Lewy bodies. Annals of Neurology 98(4): 682, 2025.
Vaughan C.P., Morley J.F., Lehosit J., McGwin G., Muirhead L., Khakharia A., Johnson TM, Evatt ML, Sergent T, Burgio KL, Markland A.D.: Comparative effectiveness non-inferiority trial of behavioral or drug therapy for overactive bladder symptoms in Parkinson disease. JAMA Neurology 82(9): 925, 2025.
Morley, J.F., Subramanian, I., Farahnik, J., Grout, L., Salcido, C., Kurtzer, J., Mischley, L.K.: Physical activity, patient-reported outcomes, and quality of life in Parkinson’s disease. J Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology 39(1): 14, 2025.
Vaswani, PA, Morley, JF, Jennings, D, Siderowf, A, Marek, K.: Predictive value of abbreviated olfactory tests in prodromal Parkinson disease. nPJ Parkinson's Disease 9(3), 2023.
Waddell, KJ, Patel, MS, Wilkinson, JR, Burke, RE, Bravata, DM, Koganti, S Wood, S, Morley, JF: Deploying Digital Health Technologies for Remote Physical Activity Monitoring of Rural Populations With Chronic Neurologic Disease. Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation 5(1), 2023.
Vaswani, P.A., Morley, J.F., Jennings, D., Siderowf, A.D. and Marek, K. for the PARS Investigators: Serial olfactory testing for the diagnosis of prodromal Parkinson's disease in the PARS study. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 104: 15-20, 2022.
Mantri, S., Fullard, M.E., Duda, J.E., Morley, J.F.: Physical Activity in Early Parkinson Disease. Journal of Parkinson's Disease 8 (1): 107-111, 2018.
Morley, J.F., Cohen, A., Silveira-Moriyama, L., Lees, A.J., Williams, D.R., Katzenschlager, R., Hawkes, C., Adelman, J.P., Weintraub, D., Doty, R.L., Duda, J.E. : Optimizing olfactory testing for the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease: item analysis of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test. npj Parkinson's Disease 15(4): 2, January 2018.
Fullard, M.E., Tran, B., Xie, S.X., Scordia, C., Linder, C., Purri, Weintraub D., Duda, J.E., Chahine, L., Morley, J.F.: Olfactory impairment predicts cognitive decline in early Parkinson's disease Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 25: 45-51, 2016.