Karen Anderson, MD
Professor with Tenure, Neurology and Psychiatry
Vice-Chair of Research
Department of Psychiatry
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Director
Huntington Disease Care, Education & Research Center “Cura Familia” (HDCERC)
2115 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 140
Washington, DC 20007
Phone:(202)944-5400
Fax:(202)687-0694
E-mail: kea45@georgetown.edu
General Information
Undergraduate Degree: University of Chicago
Graduate Degree: University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine
Residency: Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Fellowship: Columbia University, Gertrude Sergievsky Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute
Areas of Interest: clinical trial design, patient reported outcome, rare disease outreach
“I am a Neuropsychiatrist who specializes in Movement Disorders and Dementia. My primary area of clinical work is Huntington’s Disease.“
“I conduct research for both disease modification and symptomatic treatment of Huntington’s Disease.“
BIO
Karen E. Anderson, MD, is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology at Georgetown University. She is the Director of the Huntington Disease Care, Education and Research Center (HD-CERC) at Georgetown MedStar Hospital, which is a Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence. Dr. Anderson’s clinical and research interests include treatment of behavioral symptoms in patients with Huntington Disease (HD), and other movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. She had a lead role in development of expert consensus treatment guidelines for emotional symptoms in people with HD. She conducts clinical trials for new drug therapies in dementia and movement disorders, and has had a leadership role in several HD clinical trials and for tardive dyskinesia. Her work includes using patient reported outcomes in neurological disease to better understand how people with an illness prioritize symptoms and their impact. She was the Principal Investigator for myHDstory, the pilot study on the Huntington Study Group virtual research platform for people impacted by Huntington Disease. Dr. Anderson earned her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Chicago. She completed her internship at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and her residency and postdoctoral research training in psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Prior to her recruitment to Georgetown, Dr. Anderson was the Director of the University of Maryland Huntington’s Disease Clinic, which she founded in 2001, and a clinician at the Baltimore VA Medical Center in the Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic.
Areas of Research: Huntington’s Disease Care
Huntington’s Disease Care, Education and Research Center
Videos: Ask Dr. Karen Anderson, and Strategies for Managing Depression
Dr. Anderson answers commonly asked questions about Huntington disease, including the benefits of participating in clinical trials.
Dr. Karen Anderson, HD Center, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital