Pritha Ghosh, MD is a board-certified neurologist and an associate professor of Neurology and Rehabilitative Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences (GW SMHS). She has advanced expertise in the subspecialty of Movement Disorders. After receiving her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Ghosh completed her internal medicine internship at Johns Hopkins University/Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and trained in neurology at Georgetown University Hospital. She then completed a 3-year fellowship in movement disorders at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Hallett, where she focused her clinical work on Parkinson's disease (PD) and deep brain stimulation for the treatment of PD and other movement disorders.
Dr. Ghosh’s clinical interests include Parkinson's disease, tremor, dystonia, and other movement disorders. In addition to being trained in the evaluation and treatment of candidates for deep brain stimulation therapy, Dr. Ghosh is skilled in the use of botulinum injections for treating dystonia. Dr. Ghosh is also a published author. While at the NIH, she was the lead investigator of a study of imaging biomarkers of PD. At GW, she has developed numerous projects studying Parkinson’s disease, with a recent focus on the non-motor symptoms of PD as well as the role of exercise in PD.
Additionally, Dr Ghosh is an enthusiastic clinical educator and administrator. For nearly a decade, she has been devoted to educating medical trainees as the Clinical Neuroscience clerkship director, and now serves as an Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at the GW SMHS. She is also deeply committed to teaching Parkinson patients, their family members and the community- at-large about Parkinson's disease. She has presented at several regional, national and international conferences, and is a member of many professional societies, including the American Academy of Neurology and the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society.
