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David Szmulewicz

David Szmulewicz is publicly named by the Bionics Institute as research leader — movement and balance disorders. David is an Associate Professor and Principal research fellow at the Bionics Institute. He is a neurologist, neuro-otologist and translational researcher interested in diseases which interfere with normal human movement, which include the cerebellar ataxias. He is the founding head of the Balance Disorders & Ataxia Service (BDAS) at the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, the Fragile X-Associated Tremor Ataxia (FXTAS) Clinic. He consults in the Monash Health Friedreich Ataxia clinic and the Machado-Joseph Disease Foundation Ataxia Clinic (Northern Territory), an honorary neurologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and a lecturer at Melbourne University. David’s clinical and research focus are disorders of the cerebellum, vestibular and somatosensory systems.