Dr Almeida is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology with subspecialty training in Movement disorders. He joined the University of Minnesota in 2022 to serve as the division chief of the Movement Disorders Program. He has a large expertise in Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for movement disorders including Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. He is an expert in intraoperative brain mapping, and basal ganglia physiology. He has served as an investigator for various DBS-related clinical trials with particular interest in novel stimulation parameters and on-demand (closed loop) DBS treatment. He joined as a MnDRIVE Scholar to pursue research on various aspects of dysfunctional networks in basal ganglia of movement disorders patients, by using intraoperative and chronic outpatient data, combining physiology, fiber tract and target segmentation analysis and computational models to study neuronal activity reacting to different stimulation parameters. Dr Almeida sees patients in the neurology clinic, focusing on DBS, and works as a clinician-researcher in order to contribute to the field in developing more efficient ways to deliver neuromodulatory therapy to patients and continue to improve patient outcomes.
