Richard Dewey, MD

Professor
Neurology and Neurotherapeutics

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

richard.dewey@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Biography

Dr. Dewey was trained in Neurology and Movement Disorders at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He joined the neurology faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center in July, 1994 where he helped to create the Clinical Center for Movement Disorders which he directs. Dr. Dewey has been involved in a number of clinical research projects in the field of movement disorders. His primary clinical interests are in the diagnosis and management of Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and other involuntary movement disorders.

Education

FellowshipMayo Clinic College of Medicine, Movement Disorders (1994)
ResidencyMayo Clinic College of Medicine, Neurology (1993)
InternshipSt. Joseph's Hospital, Transitional Internship (1990)
Medical SchoolBaylor College of Medicine (1989)

Research Interests

Therapeutics and disease mechanisms in disorders of the basal ganglia

Publications

Featured
A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of subcutaneously-injected apomorphine for Parkinsonian off-states

Dewey RB Jr, Hutton, JT, LeWitt PA, Factor SA. , Arch Neurol , 2001; (58):1385-1392

Featured
Treatment of drug-induced psychosis with quetiapine and clozapine in Parkinson's disease

Dewey RB Jr, O'Suilleabhain PE , Neurology , 2000; (55):1753-1754

Featured
Clinical Outcome of Unilateral Stereotactic Pallidotomy without Microelectrode Recording for Intractable Parkinson's Disease.

Dewey RB Jr, Giller CA, Broline SK, Mendelsohn DB, Lacritz LH, Cullum CM. , Parkinsonism Rel Dis , 2000; (6):7-16

Featured
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of intranasal apomorphine spray as a rescue agent for off-states in Parkinson's disease

Dewey RB Jr, Maraganore DM, Ahlskog JE, Matsumoto JY. , Mov Disord , 1998; (13):782-787

Featured
Long-term follow-up of levodopa responsiveness in generalized dystonia

Dewey RB Jr, Muenter MD, Kishore A, Snow BJ. , Arch Neurol , 1998; (55):1320-1323

Practice Parameter: Therapies for essential tremor, Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology

Zesiewicz TA, Elble R, Louis ED, Hauser RA, Sullivan KL, Dewey RB Jr., Ondo WG, Gronseth GS, Weiner WJ. , Neurology , 2005; (64):2008-2020

Pergolide use in Parkinson disease is associated with cardiac valve regurgitation

Baseman DG, O’Suilleabhain PE, Reimold SC, Laskar SR, Baseman JG, Dewey RB Jr. , Neurology , 2004; (63):301-304

A controlled trial of rotigotine monotherapy in early Parkinson's disease

Parkinson Study Group (Dewey RB Jr participating author and investigator) , Arch Neurol , 2003; (60):1721-1728

A randomized trial of amantadine in Huntington's disease

O'Suilleabhain PE, Dewey RB Jr. , Arch Neurol , 2003; (60):996-998

Contributions of dopaminergic drugs and disease severity to daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease

O'Suilleabhain PE, Dewey RB, Jr. , Arch Neurol , 2002; (59):986-989

Honors/Awards

Best Doctors in America

(2002)

Neurology teaching award

for excellence in teaching residents and medical students (1995)

Alpha Omega Alpha

Baylor College of Medicine (1988)

Phi Beta Kappa

Duke University (1984)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

Dallas County Medical Society

Fellow, American Academy of Neurology

Movement Disorders Society

Parkinson Study Group

Texas Medical Association