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Barbara Illowsky Karp, MD received her undergraduate degree and a Master’s in biochemistry from MIT. After medical school at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she moved to the DC area for internship, residency in neurology at the George Washington Medical Center and fellowship in behavioral neurology at the NIH.  She served as Chief of the NIH/NINDS Neurology Consultation Service and then established the multi-institute NIH Combined NeuroScience IRB, serving as its chair from 2006-2019.  Her clinical practice and research have focused on movement disorders and therapeutic applications of botulinum toxin. Her interest in botulinum toxin use in chronic pelvic pain led to her current position in the HEAL/NINDS Early Phase Pain Investigation Clinical Network.