UAB Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology Ray L. Watts, MD, announces the appointment of Alan Freeman, MD, as associate professor. Dr. Freeman joins UAB from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, where he was assistant professor and associate director of movement disorders.

A graduate of Georgia State University in Atlanta and the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Dr. Freeman completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Louisville and a neurology residency and electromyography fellowship at Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. This was followed by a fellowship in movement disorders and motor control at Emory. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Movement Disorders Society.

Dr. Freeman's clinical interests center on movement disorders, including Parkinson disease and botulinum toxin injections for dystonia. His current research focuses on clinical trials for Parkinson disease and dystonia.

Dr. Freeman is currently accepting patients at The Kirklin Clinic® and may be reached at 934-0683 for academic and administrative calls and at 801-8986 for patient appointments; e-mail afreema@ uab.edu.