Tyler Cheung, MD
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Specialties/Services
Movement Disorders Subspecialty Consultation (including Parkinson’s Disease, atypical parkinsonism syndromes, gait disorders, tremor/essential tremor, dystonia, chorea, hyperkinetic movement disorders, spasticity.
Deep Brain Stimulation: Initial evaluation and subsequent followup and maintenance care for patients interested in, or implanted with DBS
Botulinum toxin injection for dystonia, spasticity and migraine
Refill and maintenance care for implanted intrathecal baclofen pumps
Education
Yale University, 2001 (B. Sci. Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics)
Tufts University, 2005 (MD)
Albany Medical Center, 2006 (Internal Medicine)
Tufts University, 2009 (Neurology Residency)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2011 (Fellowship, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders)
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 2013 (Fellowship, Deep Brain Stimulation Research)
Board Certification
2009, Neurology (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology)
About
Dr. Cheung is a board-certified neurologist with a focus on Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders. He completed his medical training in Albany, NY and Boston, MA, and subsequently completed two fellowships in movement disorders and deep brain stimulation.
Dr. Cheung is dedicated to the accurate diagnosis and care of his neurological patients, ranging from early to advanced staged Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, tremor, dystonia, chorea, dyskinesia, and gait disorders. He is also experienced in general neurology ranging from headache care, neuropathy, stroke, spasticity, epilepsy and more.
Procedures offered by Dr. Cheung include
Deep Brain Stimulation: Initial evaluation and subsequent followup and maintenance care for patients interested in, or implanted with DBS
Botulinum toxin injection for dystonia, spasticity and migraine
Refill and maintenance care for implanted intrathecal baclofen pumps
Additionally, his research interests include the therapeutic and neurophysiological effects of deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, as well as childhood and adult dystonias, resulting in numerous peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences.
Publications
Defining a therapeutic target for pallidal deep brain stimulation for dystonia. Cheung T, Noecker AM, Alterman RL, McIntyre CC, Tagliati M. Ann Neurol. 2014 Jul;76(1):22-30. doi: 10.1002/ana.24187. Epub 2014 Jun 18. PMID: 24852850
Deep Brain Stimulation for Status Dystonicus: A Case Series and Review of the Literature. Ben-Haim S, Flatow V, Cheung T, Cho C, Tagliati M, Alterman RL. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2016;94(4):207-215. Epub 2016 Aug 10. Review. PMID: 27504896
The rationale driving the evolution of deep brain stimulation to constant-current devices. Bronstein JM, Tagliati M, McIntyre C, Chen R, Cheung T, Hargreaves EL, Israel Z, Moffitt M, Montgomery EB, Stypulkowski P, Shils J, Denison T, Vitek J, Volkman J, Wertheimer J, Okun MS. Neuromodulation. 2015 Feb;18(2):85-8; discussion 88-9. doi: 10.1111/ner.12227. Epub 2014 Aug 29. PMID: 25171762
Reply: Neural reorganization through deep brain stimulation: anything new on the horizon? Cheung T, Alterman RL, Tagliati M. Mov Disord. 2013 Sep;28(10):1467. doi: 10.1002/mds.25524. Epub 2013 Jun 18. PMID: 23780513
Longitudinal impedance variability in patients with chronically implanted DBS devices. Cheung T, Nuño M, Hoffman M, Katz M, Kilbane C, Alterman R, Tagliati M. Brain Stimul. 2013 Sep;6(5):746-51. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2013.03.010. Epub 2013 Apr 12. PMID: 23619246
Sustained relief of generalized dystonia despite prolonged interruption of deep brain stimulation. Cheung T, Zhang C, Rudolph J, Alterman RL, Tagliati M. Mov Disord. 2013 Sep;28(10):1431-4. doi: 10.1002/mds.25353. Epub 2013 Feb 11. PMID: 23400837
Pallidal deep brain stimulation for DYT6 dystonia. Panov F, Tagliati M, Ozelius LJ, Fuchs T, Gologorsky Y, Cheung T, Avshalumov M, Bressman SB, Saunders-Pullman R, Weisz D, Alterman RL. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2012 Feb;83(2):182-7. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2011-300979. Epub 2011 Sep 23. PMID: 21949105
Deep brain stimulation: can we do it better? Cheung T, Tagliati M. Clin Neurophysiol. 2010 Dec;121(12):1979-80. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.05.024. Epub 2010 Jun 26. PMID: 20580312