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Marina Sarno, Ph.D.

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Biography

Dr. Marina Sarno is an Assistant Professor of Neurology within the Division of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. She earned her Bachelors degree at the University of Miami in Psychology and Criminology and completed her doctoral degree at Nova Southeastern University, where she specialized in Neuropsychology. Dr. Sarno completed her Internship in Neuropsychology at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx, New York and her Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuropsychology at the University of Miami Department of Neurology with Dr. Levin.  She conducts and supervises neuropsychological evaluations of patients with Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, Lewy body disease and atypical PD.

Her clinical and research interests involve neurocognitive and emotional profiles of movement disorder patients, proper patient selection for deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery and determining risk factors for post-DBS outcomes. Dr. Sarno is fluent in both English and Spanish.

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