Toni S. Pearson, MD

Toni Pearson, MBBS, is an attending pediatric neurologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital and professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Originally from Australia, she earned an undergraduate degree in music and her medical degree from the University of Adelaide. She then completed her residency training in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Westmead (University of Sydney) and Montreal Children’s Hospital (McGill University), before moving to New York to undertake child neurology residency and a movement disorders fellowship at Columbia University.

Dr. Pearson is a specialist in childhood movement disorders and evaluates patients with dystonia, chorea, parkinsonism, ataxia, myoclonus, tremor, tics and spasticity. She also works in collaboration with the Comprehensive Cerebral Palsy Program at Nationwide Children’s. Her clinical research interests focus on the characterization and treatment of rare neurogenetic conditions, including work on an NIH-funded clinical trial investigating gene therapy for the neurotransmitter disorder aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency.