Brad A. Racette, M.D.

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Dr. Racette is Professor and Vice Chairman of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

Medical Training

Dr. Racette received his A.B. in 1988 in Molecular Biology from Princeton University. He graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in 1992. Following an internship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL, he completed residency training in Neurology at Barnes Hospital (Washington University School of Medicine). He completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at Washington University School of Medicine in 1998 and was appointed to the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Neurology in 1998. Dr. Racette is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the Movement Disorders Society, the Parkinson's Study Group, and the Huntington's Study Group. He serves on the medical advisory board of the St. Louis chapter of the American Parkinson's Disease Association the Missouri chapter of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation. He has been elected to the American Neurologic Association and named a fellow in the American Academy of Neurology.

Licensure:
Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners Missouri Board of the Healing Arts

Diplomate, American Board of Neurology & Psychiatry.

Clinical Expertise
Dr. Racette's clinical practice focuses primarily on management of Parkinson disease and performing botulinum toxin injections for patients with dystonia and children with cerebral palsy.

Research Interest
My research laboratory focuses on the environmental epidemiology of Parkinson disease. The primary areas of research in our laboratory include a worksite based studies of parkinsonism in welders, imaging biomarkers of parkinsonism in manganese-exposed workers, neuropathology of chronic Mn exposure, and geographic information systems research into demographic and environmental risk factors for Parkinson disease.
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