About me
Board-certified in neurology, Mark Lin, MD, PhD, serves as Director of Movement Disorders at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. His background in immunology is influential to his research and making advances in patient care.
Dr. Lin is highly regarded in the treatment and research of management for movement disorders with special expertise in the programming of deep brain stimulators for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, other types of tremor, and dystonia. He is also considered highly skilled in the use of botulinum therapy for the treatment of movement disorders, limb spasticity and chronic migraine.
Dr. Lin's work has been published in prominent clinical and scientific journals. A special focus of his current research is the prevention of levodopa-related dyskinesia and motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease. Over the years, he has developed a prevention strategy for levodopa induced motor complications. He is as an associate professor at Georgetown University, participating in clinical teaching and clinical research.
After earning his medical degree from what is now known as Guangdong Medical University in Guangdong, China, Dr. Lin completed an MS and PhD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine followed by a residency in neurology at the same institution. Post-graduate training in movement disorders followed at the New York Neurological Institute, Columbia University.
Clinical areas of focus
- Ataxia
- Blurred Vision
- Botulinum Toxin For Movement Disorders
- Chorea
- Concussion
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Dizziness
- Dyskinesia
- Dystonia
- Encephalitis
- Facial Nerve Palsy And Paresis
- Falls
- Headache
- Huntington's Disease
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Migraine
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Neuropathy
- Numbness
- Parkinson's Disease (PD)
- Spasms
- Spasticity
- Tingling
- Tremor
- Twitching
- Unsteady Gait
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Ataxia
- Behcet Syndrome
- Blurred Vision
- Cervical Dystonia
- Chorea
- Concussion
- Dizziness
- Dyskinesia
- Dystonia
- Encephalitis
- Epilepsy
- Facial Nerve Palsy And Paresis
- Facial Spasm
- Falls
- Headache
- Huntington's Disease
- Kinetic Tremor
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Migraine
- Movement Diseases And Disorders
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Neuropathy
- Numbness
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Parkinson's Disease (PD)
- Spasms
- Spasticity
- Tingling
- Torticollis
- Tremor
- Twitching
- Unsteady Gait
Procedures I perform
- Botox For Dystonia
- Botox For Hemifacial Spasm
- Botox For Migraines
- Botox For Spasticity
- Botulinum Toxin For Movement Disorders
- Deep Brain Stimulation
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- CFBCBS EPO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Aetna HMO
- Open POS II
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Open EPO Plus
- Opoen HMO Option
- Open HMO
- Innovation Health: POS
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- HealthyBlue PPO
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- PPO and PPO Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Network OA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- United Healthcare Choice
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- First Health PPO
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Tricare Prime
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- FIRST HEALTH
- United Student Resources
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurology
Fellowship Program: Columbia University (2002)
Residency Program: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2001)
Graduate Education: Albert Einstein School of Medicine (1997)
Medical School: Guangdong Medical College (1984)
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
- Lin, M.M., Laureno, R., (2019) When and how to start levodopa in the treatment of Parkinson disease. Open Access J Neurol Neurosurg. 11(2): 555808.
- Lin, M.M., Laureno, R., (2019) Less pulsatile levodopa therapy (6 doses daily) is associated with a reduced incidence of dyskinesia. J Mov Disord. 12(1): 37-42.
- Pal, G., Lin, M.M., Laureno, R., (2014) Asterixis: a study of 103 patients. Metabolic brain disease. 29(3): 813-24.
- Erwin, A., Tornatore, C. and Lin, M. (2012) Profound alternating corticospinal tract enhancement in Neuro-Behcet's disease. Annals of Neurology 72(S16): S118.
- Cooper, H.A., Thompson, E.C., Laureno, R., Fuisz, A., Mark, AS., Lin, M., Goldstein, S.A., (2009) Subclinical brain embolization in left-side infective endocarditis. Circulation. 120(7): 585-91.
- Green, N.S. Lin, M.M., and Scharff, M.D. , (1998) Immunoglobulin hypermutation in cultured cells. Immunol. Rev. 162:77-87.
- Green, N.S. Lin, M.M., and Scharff, M.D. , (1998) Somatic hypermutation of antibody genes: a hot spot warms up. Bioessays 20:227-234.
- Lin, M.M., Green, N.S. and Scharff, M.D., (1998) The effects of E, 3' (hs1,2) and 3' enhancers on mutation of an Ig-VDJ-C2a Ig heavy gene in cultured B cells. Int. Immunol. 10:1121-1129.
- Lin, M., and Scharff, M.D. (1997) Antibody V region hypermutation in vitro. Einstein Quart. J. Biol. Med. 14:49.
- Lin, M., Zhu, M. and Scharff, M.D. (1997) Sequence dependent hypermutation of immunoglobulin heavy chains in cultured B cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:5284-5289.
- Lin, M., Spira, G., and Scharff, M.D. (1996) Molecular comparison of cultured hybridoma cells that switch isotypes at high and low rates. Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics 22:329-340.
- Lin, M., Chang, C.J. and Green, N.S. (1996) A new method for estimating high mutation rates in cultured cells Mutation Research 351:105-116.
- Chang, C.J. and Lin, M.Q. (1995) Statistical model of the fluctuation analysis in cell biology. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association 455-460.