Arif Dalvi, M.D.
Special Expertise: Neurology
Board Certified: Neurology
Specialties: Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Tourette’s Syndrome, Movement Disorders, Deep Brain Stimulation, Tremor, Botox for Muscle Overactivity
Fellowship: University of Cincinnati, Clinical Neurophysiology
Fellowship: Columbia University, Movement Disorders
Arif Dalvi M.D., MBA, a board-certified neurologist, discovered his love for neuroscience thanks to “Grey’s Anatomy.” However, it wasn’t the television show that sparked his interest. Rather it was the book, “Gray’s Anatomy,” whose intricate diagrams of the brain’s anatomy fascinated him.
Dr. Dalvi is the director of the Comprehensive Movement Disorders Program at Palm Beach Neuroscience Institute (PBNI) in Boynton Beach, the director of St. Mary’s Medical Center Memory Disorders Center and physician chief of the Movement Disorders Program at Delray Medical Center. He is fellowship trained in Parkinson’s disease from Columbia University, N.Y. and is former director of the neurology residency program at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine.
He has conducted research for over 20 years on the medical and surgical treatment of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, dystonia and essential tremor. His research interests include deep brain stimulation and focused ultrasound for Parkinson’s disease and tremor, nerve growth factors for Parkinson’s disease and novel imaging studies and diagnostic protocols for Alzheimer’s dementia.
His current research interest involves focused ultrasound for Parkinson’s disease which helps symptoms such as tremors and dyskinesia. He is a co-author of a pivotal study on this procedure that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which led to FDA approval of this procedure for Parkinson’s disease in 2023.
He is also involved with extending the benefits of this technology to Alzheimer’s disease. Five million people have Alzheimer’s in the country, with about 600,000 of them in Florida. The Memory Disorders Center at PBNI is one of Florida’s state-funded research and treatment centers, part of the Brain State initiative, addressing this challenge.
The treatment philosophy of Dr. Dalvi’s PBNI team is to approach each patient as an individual. “Being at the cutting edge of research, we have many tools we can pull from to find the right treatment that fits a given patient.”
Location: 8756 Boynton Beach Blvd., Ste. 2500, Boynton Beach, 561-572-9371, pbni.com
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