文档介绍：Obituary
William C. Koller, MD, PhD
1945–2005
William C. Koller died unexpectedly on October 3, 2005, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
while this volume, which he was co-editing, was in preparation. Bill was born in Milwau-
kee on July 12, 1945, where he graduated with a BS degree from Marquette University in
1968. He went on to Northwestern University in Chicago, where he received a Masters
degree in pharmacology in 1971, a PhD in pharmacology in 1974, and an MD in 1976.
pleting his internship and residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical
Center in Chicago, he held positions at the Rush Medical College, University of Illinois,
Chicago VA, Hines VA, and Loyola University. In 1987, he was appointed Professor
and Chairman of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he
remained until 1999, when he moved to the University of Miami and became the National
Research Director for the National Parkinson Foundation. He subsequently moved on to direct the Movement
Disorders clinical program at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and then to the University of North
Carolina, where he laid the foundation for yet another superb clinical and academic program.
Bill was a world-renowned neurologist who specialized in Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and related
disorders. He published more than 270 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 160 review papers and numerous books.
His research interests included the epidemiology and experimental therapeutics of parkinsonism and essential
tremor, and his work contributed enormously to the current treatment of these disorders. His collaborations were
worldwide and many current experts in movement disorders worked with him at one time or another. He was
a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, Treasurer of the Movement Disorder Society (1999–2000),
Executive Board Member of the Parkinson Study Group (1996–1999), President of WE MOVE (2001–2002),
a founding member of the