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Robert W. Hamill, MD
 

Professor and Chair of Neurology

 
Work Address
University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Given Hall, Room C225, Burlington, Vermont 05405
Phone #: Clinic: 802-847-4589 Fax #: 802-656-5678
 


Area of Interest

Movement disorders - Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease
Age-related neurological disorders - Gait and Balance
Neurodegenerative disease - Alzheimer disease and other Dementias
Autonomic disorders


Education

1996:  Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
1978-1980:  Teacher-Investigator Development Award, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), Cornell University Medical Center
1977-1978:  Jordan Research Fellowship, National Paraplegia Foundation, Cornell University Medical Center
1976-1980:  Neurobiology Research Fellowship, Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY
 
1976-1978:  National Research Service Award, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Cornell University Medical Center
1975-1976:  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Laboratory of Developmental Neurology, Cornell University Medical College
1973-1976:  Neurology Resident, New York Hospital, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York
1970-1973:   Medical Officer (Internist), Lieutenant  Commander, United States Navy
1968-1970:  Medical Intern and Resident, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
1968:  M.D. Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1964:  B.S., Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts 


Appointments

1999-2001:   Board of Trustees, University Medical Education Association, Inc., UVM College of Medicine
1995-present:  Physician Leader, Neurology Health Care Service, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT
1994-1996:   Board of Trustees, University Medical Education Association, Inc., UVM College of Medicine
1993-present:   Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Vermont, College Medicine, Burlington, Vermont
1993-present:  Dean's Advisory Committee, University of Vermont College of Medicine
1993-1994:  President, University Associates of Neurology, Burlington, Vermont
1989-1993:  Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
1987-1989:  Associate Professor of Neurology, Neurobiology and Anatomy and Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
1985-1987:  Associate Professor of Neurology, Medicine and Brain Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
1980-1993:  Director, Neurology Unit, Monroe Community Hospital and Director, Neurogerontology Unit, Department of Neurology, University of  Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York
1980-1985:  Assistant Professor Neurology, Medicine and Brain Research, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
1976-1980:  Assistant Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York


Board Certification

1979:  American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry


Licensure

1993-present:  Medical Licensure, State of Vermont
1976-present:  Medical Licensure, State of New York


Professional Activities

2003-2006:  ASENT Program Committee Chair
2002-present:  Board of Directors, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Society
2001-2002:  Board Review Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Part II Exam, Philadelphia and New York.
2000-present:  Movement Disorder Society
1999-present:  American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics
1999-present:  Medical Director, American Parkinson's Disease Association, Information and Referral Center, University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care
1998:  Consultant, Alzheimer’s Association; Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute: The Care of People with Alzheimer’s Disease in the Next Millennium.  Feb. 22 – Feb. 25.
1997:  Member, Americian Federation for Aging Research, National Scientific Advisory Council
1995:  Chair, NIA, Ad Hoc Study Center to review Alzheimer Disease Center, Washington, DC 
1995-2000:  Vermont State Commission on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
1994-present:  Assistant Health Officer, Town of Underhill, Underhill, VT.
1994:  Consultant Reviewer for Veterans Health Services and Research  Admin. Proposal
1994:  Chair, NIA, Ad Hoc Study Center to review Alzheimer Disease Center, Bethesda, MD 
1994:  Chair, NIA Review Panel for Older Americans  Independence Centers (Pepper Centers)
1993-present:  Northern New England Neurological Society (NH/VT/ME)
1993-present:  Vermont State Medical Society (Chittenden County)
1993:  Chair, NIA Ad Hoc Study Center to review Pepper Center Proposals
1987-present:  American Neurological Association

1987-present:  American Academy of Neurology, Fellow

1987-1993:  Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc.,  Rochester, N.Y., Board of Directors, Medical Advisor
1978-1980:  Teacher-Investigator Development Award, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), Cornell University Medical Center
1975-present:  Society for Neuroscience
1973-present:  American Academy of Neurology


Awards and Honors

1996-2006:  Best Doctors of America
1996-1997:  Who’s Who
1964-1968:  Hartford County Memorial Scholarship, Hartford County Medical Society, Hartford, CT
1964-1968:  Charles Alva Stickland Scholarship, Bowman Gray School of Medicine
Magna Cum Laude Graduate, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, Springfield College


Research

2002-2007: 1 U10 NS44501-01 Hamill (PI) NINDS—NET-PD Neuroprotective Experimental Neurotherapeuticis in Parkinson’s Disease-Clinical Centers.  UVM/FAHC is one of 52 sites that are conducting interventional trials designed to test agents that might slow or retard the progress of PD. The UVM site is a consortium among UVM, Dartmouth Hitchcock and Maine Medical Center.

Project I:  A multi-center, double blind, futility study of Minocycline and Creatine in subjects with early untreated Parkinson's disease.
 
Project II:  NIH Trial- A multi-center, double-blind, pilot study of CoQ10 and GPI 1485 in subjects with early untreated Parkinson's disease.
 
Subproject: DNA Repository for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
2001-2011:  P20 RR16435 Parsons (PI) NIH/NCRR Center for Excellence in Neuroscience (Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence-COBRE). The aims of this award are 1) to support the research development of a core group of five junior neuroscience faculty, 2) to establish a mentoring program to support junior neuroscience faculty, 3) to establish an imaging/physiology core, 4) to establish a cellular/molecular core, 5) to establish a University-wide Neuroscience Seminar Series and Annual Neuroscience Retreat, 6) to establish a mechanism of communication between basic scientists and clinicians that facilitates development of translational research and 7) to establish a University-wide mechanism for Neuroscience Graduate Education.
1999-present:  Renewed annually “Parkinson’s Disease-Information and Referral Center Development” American Parkinson’s Disease Association  Hamill (PI), Infrastructure for clinical care and education, including education regarding research opportunities.  The goal of this project is to develop an information and referral center for patients with Parkinson’s disease.


Publications

The NINDS NET-PD Investigators: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Coenzyme Q10 and GPI-1485 in  Early Parkinson’s Disease. (In Preparation)

The NINDS NET-PD Investigators: A randomized, double-bind, futility clinical trial of creatine and minocycline in early Parkinson disease. Neurology 2006;66:664-671

B.C. Tilldy, Y.Y. Palesch, K. Kieburtz, B. Ravina, PO. Huang, J.J. Elm, K. Shannon, G. F. Wooten, C.M. Tanner, G.C.. Goetz and on behalf of the NET-PD Investigators Neurology 2006; 66:628-633
Klünemann HH, Sklarjevski V, Hamill RW. Accidental treatment of glioblastoma multiforme with intravenous tPA. Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases 2003;12:47-48 ISSN 1052-3057
Lew SM, Khoshyomn S, Hamill RW, Tranmer TI:  Cavernous malformation of the facial colliculus.  Neurology 58:79-84, 2002
Andersen JK, Mo TQ, Hom DG, Lee EY, Harnish P, Hamill RW, McNeil TH:  Effect of Buthionine sulfoxamine, a synthesis inhibitor of the antioxidant glutathione on the murine nigro-striatal neurons.   J Neurochem 67:2164-2171, 1996.
Rubio A, Steinberg K, Figlewicz DA, MacDonald ME, Greenamyre T, Hamill R, Shoulson I, Powers JM.  Coexistence of Huntington disease and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis:  case-presentation.  Acta Neuropathologica  92:421-427, 1996.
Maguire-Zeiss KA, Shimoda LMN, Hamill RW:  Calbindin D28k mRNA levels in olivopontocerebellar atrophy.   Molecular Brain Research 30:362-366, 1995.
Hamill RW, Pilgrim DM:  Advances in Alzheimer's Disease.  Contemporary Internal Medicine 7(7)46-58, 1995.
Hamill RW, Pilgrim DM.  Current Diagnostic Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease. Contemporary Internal Medicine 7(5)45-54, 1995.
Maguire-Zeiss KA,  Li ZW, Shimoda LMN, Hamill RW.  Calbindin D28k mRnA  in hippocampus, superior temporal gyrus and cerebellum:  comparison between control and Alzheimer Disease subjects.  Molecular Brain Research 30:362-366, 1995.
Wetzel DM, Bohn MC, Kazee AM, Hamill RW.  Glucocorticoid receptor mRNA in Alzheimer's diseased  hippocampus.  Brain Research, 679: 72-81, 1995.
Hamill RW, Pilgrim DM.  Current Diagnostic Guidelines for Alzheimer's Disease.  Contemporary Internal Medicine 7(5) 45-5, 1995.
Wetzel DM, Bohn MC,  Hamill RW.  Postmortem stability of mRNA for glucocorticoid and mineralcorticoid receptor in rodent brain.  Brain Res  649:117-121, 1994.
Hamill RW,  Markesbery WR, McDaniel KD, Coleman PD.  Characterization of Brain Samples in Studies of Aging, Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases.  Neurobiol Aging  14:539-545, 1993.
Benesch CG, McDaniel KD, Cox C, Hamill RW: Alzheimer's Disease: Glasgow Coma Scale and the Neurologic Examination.  Archives of Neurology 50:1309-1315, 1993.
 
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