Dr. Black is a movement disorders neuropsychiatrist. He completed medical school at Duke University in 1990, and psychiatry residency at the combined Washington University--Barnes Hospital training program in 1994. In the last few months of residency, he began two years of fellowship training in neuroimaging and movement disorders with Joel S. Perlmutter, M.D., from the Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) department of neurology.
Much of his career has been devoted to brain imaging research in movement disorders, especially Tourette syndrome and Parkinson disease. He was also a blinded rater for the KINECT-HD project (doi: 10
Dr. Black has been a co-leader of the Huntington disease presymptomatic testing service at WashU since the late 1990s.