Abhimanyu Mahajan, MD, MHS
University of Cincinnati
Dr. Abhimanyu Mahajan is a movement disorders neurologist and Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Cincinnati. After completing medical school, he attended Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore for Masters of Health Science (MHS) in Epidemiology with a focus on Aging. During this period, he also completed a Certificate in Gerontology. During his time, he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the division of Movement disorders, Department of Neurology. He completed an adult neurology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and movement disorders fellowship at the University of Cincinnati where he was the 2019 DMRF Clinical fellow. His primary research interests lie in the investigation of cognition and behavior in movement disorders, including dystonia and Parkinsonās disease (PD), using multimodal brain imaging. Dr. Mahajanās work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals including Movement Disorders, Neurology, MDCP and Parkinsonism & related disorders. For his work on cervical dystonia and substance abuse using the Dystonia coalition database, he received the 2018 AAN Young Investigators award. He received the 2018 junior investigator award from the Parkinson Study Group (PSG) for work using magnetoencephalography (MEG) in cervical dystonia. His effort on exploring the clinical relationship between cancer and Parkinsonās disease, biological opposites, led to the 2020 AAN Alliance Award: Founders. He is a member of the 2021 MDS LEAP class. He was acknowledged as an Emerging leader in Dystonia research by the DMRF in 2023. His research has received funding from the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF), Sunflower Parkinsonās disease Foundation and the Parkinsonās Foundation. Currently, he serves on the AAN Movement disorders Measurement Workgroup, MDS Dystonia Study Group, MDS Education committee and MDS Communications Oversight Committee. He serves as an Associate Editor of MDCP, one of the two official journals of MDS. He currently serves as the Chair of the AAN section of movement disorders.