Dr. LaVonne Goodman's bio:

-Family member, lost first husband to HD

-Internal Medicine M.D. more than 40 years

-Practice limited to HD last decade

-Now retired from office practice but serve as a “volunteer physician”, continuing to see homebound and long-term care HD patients

-Previous president and board member of the Northwest Chapter of HDSA (now WA State HDSA)

-Member of HSG and the combined HSG and EHDN Behavioral Working Group

-Co-author of Guides for Treatment of Irritability and Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in HD (2011)

-Co-author of the Guidelines for Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in HD (2018)

-Co-author of Contemporary Care of Huntington’s Disease in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology (2018)

-Co-founder and writer for Huntington’s Disease Drug Works, a website presently dedicated to HD Care