General Info

Andrea Yoo, MD obtained her undergraduate degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She attended medical school at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and completed her Neurology residency at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell, serving as Chief Resident during her final year. She subsequently completed a fellowship in Movement Disorders at Mount Sinai Beth Israel under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Bressman and Dr. Rachel Saunders-Pullman. She was also an Edmond J. Safra Fellow in Movement Disorders in collaboration with the Edmond J. Safra Foundation and Michael J. Fox Foundation, emphasizing training of clinician-scientists.Dr. Yoo is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a board-certified neurologist with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She specializes in Movement Disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, ataxia, tics, chorea and gait disorders. She is experienced in botulinum toxin injections for craniofacial dystonia, cervical dystonia, limb dystonia, spasticity, sialorrhea, and hemifacial spasms. In addition, she is also trained to evaluate patients for and manage programming of deep brain stimulation (DBS).