James F Morley, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Veteran's Administration Medical Center
Staff Neurologist, Philadelphia VA Medical Center
Co-Director, Parkinson's Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center. Crescenz VA Medical Center
Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania/PADRECC Movement Disorders Fellowship Program
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.
B.S.
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
Ph.D.
Northwestern University, 2003.
M.D.
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 2005.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern in Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2006.
Resident in Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2009.
Fellow in Movement Disorders, University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2011.
Intern in Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-2006.
Resident in Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2009.
Fellow in Movement Disorders, University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2011.
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2009.
Permanent linkAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2009.
Selected Publications
Aamodt, W.A., Dubroff, J.D., Cheng, G., Taylor, B., Wood, S., Duda, J.E., Morley, J.F.: Gait Abnormalities and Non-Motor Symptoms Predict Abnormal Dopaminergic Imaging in Presumed Drug-Induced Parkinsonism. npj Parkinson's Disease 8: 53, April 2022.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.
Waddell, KJ, Patel, MS, Wilkinson, JR, Burke, RF, Koganti, S, Wood, S, Morley, JF: Deploying Digital Health Technologies for Remote Physical Activity Monitoring of Rural Populations with Neurologic Disease Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation 2022 Notes: in press.
Mantri, S., Pawlowski, S., Duda, J.E., Morley, J.F.: Comparing Self-Reported and Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity in Parkinson Disease Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 67: 56-59, October 2019.
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.
Morley, J.F., Cheng, G., Dubroff, J.G., Wood, S., Wilkinson, J. and Duda, J.E.: Olfactory impairment predicts underlying dopaminergic deficit in presumed drug-induced parkinsonism Movement Disorders Clinical Practice 4(4): 603-606, November 2017.
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.
Morley, J.F., Pawlowski, S., Pantelyat, A., Kesari, A., Maina, I., Duda, J.E.: Motor and non-motor features of Parkinson's disease that predict persistent drug-induced Parkinsonism Parkinsonism & Related Disorders 20(7): 738-42, July 2014.
Morley, J.F., Xie, S.X., Hurtig, H.I., Stern, M.B., Colcher, A., Horn, S., Dahodwala, N., Duda, J.E, Weintraub, D., Chen-Plotkin, A.S., Van Deerlin, V., Falcone, D., Siderowf, A.: Genetic influences on cognitive decline in Parkinson disease. Movement Disorders 27(4): 512-8, 2012 Notes: selected as featured Editor's Choice article.