Rohit Dhall, M.D.

Rohit Dhall, M.D., MSPH, CPE, a professor of neurology who is director of neurodegenerative disorders at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has been named the first-ever vice chair for clinical research in the College of Medicine’s Department of Neurology.

Dhall was recruited to UAMS in 2016 from the Parkinson’s Institute in California, where he was their director of clinical research and the director of the institute’s National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence. He is also a former director of the National Parkinson Foundation Center of Excellence at the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and is working to help UAMS attain Center of Excellence status.