{"id":32,"date":"2009-08-03T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/huntington\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:09:05","slug":"huntington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/huntington\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntington&#8217;s Disease Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/parkinsonsdisease\/files\/2019\/09\/Ray-SB-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2455\" padding=\"15px;\" style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\"><\/span>Boston\u00a0University Neurology Associates\u00a0offers individualized clinical services for patients and families affected by Huntington&#8217;s disease (HD). Patients are seen by a neurologist who specializes in HD as well as the movement disorder fellow and nurse. Nutrition, physical therapy, occupational therapy and genetic counseling resources are available upon referral.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Patients also have the opportunity to participate in research, to both advance the understanding of HD through observational trials and help test new potential therapies.\u00a0 Boston University is a research site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/huntingtonstudygroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huntington Study Group<\/a>. Currently, studies are ongoing for people who are at risk for developing HD as well as observational and investigational drug trials. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/research\/\">Visit the ongoing clinical trials page on this site to learn more.<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 17.6px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Staff<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/profile\/marie-helene-saint-hilaire-md-frcpc\/\">Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Saint Hilaire, MD, FRCP(C)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/profile\/raymond-c-james-rn-bs\/\">Ray James, BS, RN<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston\u00a0University Neurology Associates\u00a0offers individualized clinical services for patients and families affected by Huntington&#8217;s disease (HD). Patients are seen by a neurologist who specializes in HD as well as the movement disorder fellow and nurse. Nutrition, physical therapy, occupational therapy and genetic counseling resources are available upon referral.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Patients also have the opportunity to participate in research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":995,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/3101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/parkinsonsdisease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}