Mr. Zoltan Mari, MD, FAAN / Parkinson\'s & Movement Disorders

Expert Publications

• Altering Effort Costs in Parkinson's Disease with Noninvasive Cortical Stimulation.

Clinical Trials

• Nilotinib in Parkinson's Disease
• Blepharospasm Tools
• National Parkinson Foundation Quality Improvement Initiative
• The Dystonia Coalition Natural History and Biospecimen Repository for Isolated Dystonias
• Study to Identify Clinical, Imaging and Biologic Markers of Parkinson Disease Progression

Media Releases

Get to know Neurologist Dr. Zoltan Mari, who serves patients in Las Vegas, Nevada.

A knowledgeable neurologist, Dr. Mari is the Ruvo Family Chair for Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Research at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health – Las Vegas, joining the faculty in 2017.

Academically, he graduated first in his class at the Szeged University School of Medicine in Hungary before completing a post-doctoral fellowship at SUNY Downstate on Parkinson’s disease (PD) animal models and electrophysiology. He finished his residency in neurology at the same educational institution, where he also served as Chief Resident and was elected to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society.

After his clinical fellowships in both movement disorders and clinical neurophysiology at the National Institute of Health, Dr. Mari joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he was promoted to Associate Professor and then appointed to serve as Director of the PD & Movement Disorder Division and Center, which has grown markedly under his leadership, including many successful hires and establishing a DBS Center and a clinical fellowship program.

As a testament of his continued education, the doctor is board-certified in neurology and clinical neurophysiology at the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). The ABPN is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to serving the professions of psychiatry and neurology.

In his professional experience, he is a co-founder of Neuraly, Inc. which is developing a revolutionary disease modifying treatment for PD. He has published 70 peer-reviewed papers, authored multiple book chapters, and created nationally recognized CME programs.

Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Neurologists are licensed medical specialists who diagnose and treat disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and muscles of patients. They examine a patient’s mental and physical status, conduct medical tests and scans, and evaluate the results to diagnose and treat the patient.

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