Riaan Coller, PhD

Area of Focus

  • Advanced Parkinson’s therapies
  • Clinical Neuroscience
  • Dystonia

Biography

Riaan van Coller is a neurologist in Pretoria, South Africa with an interest is in Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders and Deep Brain Stimulation treatment.
He completed medical and neurology training at the University of Pretoria and a PhD on familial myoclonus syndromes.
As a consultant in the Neurology Department, University of Pretoria, he is involved in teaching under-graduate students and neurologists in training in movement disorders, and has active local and international collaborations for clinical and genetic research in this field.
He is active in the International Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders Society as a member of the executive committee of the African Section.