Franca Cambi , MD, PhD | Return to Faculty Profiles 

Title:

     Associate Professor of Neurology

Office Address:

    Department of Neurology

    University of Kentucky Medical Center

    KY Clinic (Wing D) - L445

    Lexington, KY 40536-0284

    (859) 323-6702 Ext. 246

    (859) 323-5943 - Fax

Clinical Interests: 

    Neurogenetic disorders, especially movement

    disorders, spastic parapareses, ataxias and

    hereditary neuropathies. Parkinson's Disease and

    general neurology.

Education:

    1979 MD, University of Florence, Medical School, Florence, Italy
    1980-81, Internship, SM Nuova Hospital, Florence, Italy
    1981-84, Research Fellow E.K Shriver Center & Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA
    1985-88 PhD, University of Rome, Neuroscience
    1988-89 Intern, Internal Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    1989-92 Resident (Neurology) Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Board Certification and Special Qualifications:

    Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1994

Academic Appointments:

    1992 - 1998: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Thomas

    Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    1996 -  2003: Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Developmental

    Biology and Teratology (secondary appointment)

    1998 - 2003: Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Thomas

    Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    2004-present: Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of

    Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, Department of Anatomy and

    Neurobiology (secondary appointment) and Spinal Cord and Brain Injury

    Research Center (secondary appointment), University of Kentucky,

    Lexington, KY

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