White House physician Kevin O’Connor on Monday night said Parkinson’s specialist and neurologist Kevin Cannard visited the White House multiple times last year to treat staff members at the White House including active duty military personnel and his work with President Joe Biden was only limited to his routine annual physical, pushing back against concerns about the president’s physical health and mental acuity.
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In a statement released by the White House, O’Connor said Biden sees a team of specialist doctors as part of his annual medical check-up and Cannard was the neurological specialist who examined the president “for each of his annual physicals.”
O’Connor said the results of these checkups have been made public each time he released details about the president’s physical and added Biden “has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical.”
The president’s physician said Cannard has been the Neurology Consultant to the White House Medical Unit since 2012.
The statement said Cannard has held “regular Neurology Clinics” at the White House Medical Clinic for the “thousands of active-duty members assigned in support of White House operations”—many of whom “experience neurological issues” stemming from their service.
According to O’Connor, Canard has been seeing patients at the White House for a dozen years and he was chosen “not because he is a movement disorder specialist, but because he is a highly trained and highly regarded neurologist…across the Military Health System.”
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The president’s physician said the results of Biden’s annual physical were detailed in his letter from February, which said: “An extremely detailed neurologic exam was again reassuring in that there were no findings which would be consistent with any cerebellar or other central neurological disorder, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's or ascending lateral sclerosis, nor are there any signs of cervical myelopathy…He exhibits no tremor, either at rest or with activity.”