Mark Gudesblatt, MD

A career in medicine allows me to solve problems, address patient concerns, and provide treatment based on science and data combined with hope. As a neurologist, I seek to understand the brain in both health and disease. I appreciate the role my works lets me play in my patients’ lives.

My practice encompasses the full spectrum of neurologic disorders. My clinical focus includes autoimmune neurologic disorders such as multiple sclerosis, dysautonomia, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, and small fiber neuropathy. I also manage movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and tics, and several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease. In addition, I see patients with genetic conditions, including hereditary spastic paraplegia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, hereditary ataxia, and Ehlers-Danlos syndromes.

Some treatments I may recommend when oral or injection medications are not effective include intrathecal baclofen therapy, which is a medication delivered to the spinal fluid to manage spasticity; infusion therapies to reduce inflammation from autoimmune disorders; botulinum toxin injections to relieve migraine or spasticity; functional electric stimulation, which can improve walking ability for some people; and vestibular therapy to address balance problems. In addition, I also provide care for patients who have received an implant for deep brain stimulation to manage essential tremor or Parkinson’s disease.

I welcome the challenge of diagnosing and creating effective treatment plans to manage complex disorders, even those that providers at other institutions have not been able to address. My mission is to provide compassionate and personalized care. I advocate for my patients and consider their physical, mental, and emotional needs when creating and adjusting treatment plans and monitoring their efficacy. Ensuring that your concerns are addressed is the foundation of my clinical practice.