Yale University's Dr. Robert King joins Honorary Committee for New Jersey Tourette Walk

With the 4th annual NJ Walks For TS at Mendham now less than a month away, the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome & Associated Disorders (NJCTS) has announced the formation of an Honorary Committee for the event, which is scheduled to take place Saturday, November 23, at Borough Park in Mendham, N.J.

The walk will be a day of advocacy, awareness, acceptance and action geared toward raising funds to support educating students and teachers about TS, anti-bullying initiatives and other important information across the Garden State.

To that end, support has been pouring in from all corners of New Jersey and has spread to other states such as Connecticut, with each Honorary Committee member demonstrating their firm support for NJCTS and the 1 in 100 kids and families living with Tourette Syndrome – an inherited, misdiagnosed, misunderstood neurological disorder characterized by involuntary sounds and movements known as tics.

The Connecticut contingent is represented by Dr. Robert King, the director of the Yale Child Study Center and Tourette Syndrome/OCD Clinic at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. Dr. King collaborates with NJCTS on worldwide genetics research studies, while also screening and consulting with families interested in participating in this landmark project -- which is based out of the NJCTS Cell & DNA Sharing Repository and Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.

Dr. King recently brought NJCTS and its Peer Advocate Program to Yale University for a presentation about Patient-Centered Medical Education, which drew rave reviews from the audience of 120 doctors and trainees at the Yale School of Medicine.

Other Honorary Committee members of note include United States soccer star Tim Howard and WFAN-AM New York Sports Radio host Craig Carton, both of whom have been noted Tourette Syndrome advocates for more than a decade.

More information about NJ Walks for TS and its Honorary Committee is available by visiting www.njcts.org. To donate to NJ Walks For TS and help educate students and teachers about Tourette, please click here.