Andrew Welleford, MD, PhD, completed his MD-PhD training, neurology residency, and movement disorders fellowship at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Welleford’s PhD dissertation, completed under the mentorship of Greg Gerhardt, PhD, and Craig van Horne, MD, PhD, in the Department of Neuroscience, focused on his work with a clinical trial evaluating sural nerve grafts in combination with Deep Brain Stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. His research interests include neurodegenerative disease, neuronal repair, and translational neuroscience. He collaborates on multiple clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease and related conditions.

His clinical practice in movement disorders neurology includes the care of patients with Parkinson’s disease, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Multiple System Atrophy, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Corticobasal Syndrome, Essential Tremor, Hemifacial Spasm, dystonia, myoclonus, chorea, ataxia, tics, Tourette syndrome, and other movement disorders. He performs botulinum toxin injections for dystonia, facial spasms, and other movement disorders. He collaborates with the Deep Brain Stimulation program at the University of Kentucky in presurgical evaluation and DBS programming for movement disorders.

Dr. Welleford will be joining the clinical faculty of the University of Kentucky as an Assistant Professor of Neurology, where he will serve as Associate Program Director for the neurology residency program. In addition to his involvement in graduate medical education, he lectures medical students in the College of Medicine.