About me
Dr. Farmer completed medical school at UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic medicine and her residency and fellowship at Georgetown University. She has been practicing Movement Disorders for over a decade and is a KOL in the specialty, consulting with pharmaceutical and medical device industry partners. Her clinical interests include Parkinson’s Disease medical and surgical management, botulinum toxin for dystonia and spasticity and managing functional movement disorders. Her research interests include telemedicine, the emotional and environmental impacts on neurodegenerative disease and continuous infusion therapies for Parkinson’s. She is a member of the MDS Telemedicine Task Force and Membership Committee. She developed the Delaware Valley Regional Movement Disorder Meeting partnering with industry to fund a quarterly educational event for movement disorder specialists and their teams across the academic institutions and hospital systems of the Delaware Valley. She serves on the editorial board of Practical Neurology and Neurology Live for their movement disorder section. She is on the advisory board for the Cannabis Education Research Institute with a special focus on the use of medical marijuana in Parkinson’s Disease. She is an advisor and committee member for multiple Parkinson’s advocacy groups including the Parkinson’s Alliance and the PMDAlliance and the NY/NJ Chapter of Parkinson’s Foundation. Dr. Farmer is the Co-administrator for the Women Neurologist Group which she helped grow to over 4000 members bringing together an international group of women neurologists from residency through retirement and has chaired its past 3 national conferences. She is a past President of the Philadelphia Neurological Society, the only two term president and only one of a handful of women in it's 140 year history. She is currently in private practice near Princeton, NJ.
