About HDSA Centers of Excellence
The HDSA Centers of Excellence provide an elite team approach to Huntington’s disease care and research. Patients benefit from expert neurologists, psychiatrists, social workers, therapists, counselors and other professionals who have extensive experience working with families affected by HD and who work collaboratively to help families plan the best HD care program throughout the course of the disease. Applications to become an HDSA Center of Excellence are open to all clinics in the United States who share HDSA’s commitment to high-quality, comprehensive care and access to clinical research.
HDSA Center of Excellence Program Application
This year, all prospective and current HDSA Centers of Excellence are required to submit an online Letter of Interest by September 14th, 2020. Full applications and progress reports are due by November 30th, 2020. Visit our new online application portal to learn more and to apply.
Please review the 2021 HDSA Centers of Excellence Program Description to learn more about the requirements to become an HDSA Center of Excellence and the services provided to HD families.
If you are ready to begin or continue your application you may click here to go directly to the submission form.
Questions about the HDSA Centers of Excellence Program may be directed to Dr. George Yohrling, Chief Scientific and Mission Officer, at gyohrling@hdsa.org.
Find an HDSA Center of Excellence In Your Area
HDSA currently has 50 Centers of Excellence across the United States.
Click on any Center listed below for its full address, contact information and website.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (MA)
Columbia Health Sciences/NYS Psychiatric Institute (NY)
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (NH)
Georgetown University/Medstar (DC)
Hennepin County Medical Center (MN)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Rocky Mountain Movement Disorders Center (CO)
Rush University Medical Center (IL)
State University of New York Buffalo
University of Alabama, Birmingham
University of California, Davis Medical Center
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Francisco
University of Kansas Medical Center (KS)
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine (FL)
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (PA)
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center- Houston
University of Vermont, Frederick Binter Center for Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (TN)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Washington University School of Medicine (MO)
HDSA Center of Excellence Partners
Click on any Partner listed below for its full address, contact information and website.
Cole Neuroscience Center, University of Tennessee Medical Center
Oregon Health Sciences University
University of Tennessee, Erlanger Health System
University of Mississippi Medical Center