About me
Karen E. Anderson, MD, is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry & Neurology at Georgetown University. She was recruited to Georgetown in 2013 to direct the Huntington Disease Care, Education and Research Center (HD-CERC) at Georgetown MedStar Hospital. The HD-CERC is a Huntington's Disease Society of American 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 a treatment 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, a 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.
