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
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.
Pigott, K., Rick, J., Xie, S.X., Hurtig, H., Chen-Plotkin, A., Duda, J., Morley, J.F., Chahine, L., Dahodwala, N., Akhtar, R.S., Siderowf, A., Trojanowski, J., Weintraub, D.: Long-term outcomes for Parkinson's disease patients with normal cognition. Neurology 85(15): 1276-82, October 2015.
Hellman, A.M., Shah, S.P., Pawlowski, S.M., Duda, J.E., and Morley, J.F.: Continuous Non-Invasive Monitoring to Detect Covert Autonomic Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 21 (7): 723-8, July 2015.
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., Duda, J.E.: Use of hyposmia and other non-motor symptoms to distinguish between drug-induced Parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease Journal of Parkinson's Disease 4(2): 169-73, 2014.
Milber, J.M., Noorigian, J.M., Morley, J.F., Petrovitch, H., White, L., Ross, G.W., Duda, J.E.: Lewy pathology is not the first sign of degeneration in vulnerable neurons in PD. Neurology 79(24): 2307-14, December 2012.
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.