 Katrina Gwinn-Hardy, M.D., is a member of our clinical team who evaluates subjects with Parkinson's disease, dementia, and related disorders, and also evaluates those individuals' family members as a part of our study. She grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and then went to Wellesley College. After that, she worked in Molecular Biology at MIT and MGH (with Dr. Bob Kingston). She then attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where she stayed for an internship in general medicine before moving to Ann Arbor for a Neurology residency at the University of Michigan. After residency, she did a fellowship in Movement Disorders at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, and she then joined the faculty at Mayo Clinic. She also briefly had a private practice in Jacksonville Beach before moving to the NINDS at NIH. At NINDS she has an extramural position as a program director in the Neurogenetics Cluster, where she is the Project Officer for a Contract for the receipt, processing, storage, and distribution for cell lines and DNA for the study of genetic factors in Neurological Disorders. She also has an intramural position, in which she evaluates subjects for the Laboratory of Neurogenetics as noted above. She has a particular interest in identifying the presymptomatic features of Parkinson's disease, in the hopes that being able to predict who will get the disease will allow us to treat and prevent Parkinson's disease at some point in the future. |
This work is a collaborative effort with other institutes at NIH. Our laboratory works closely with the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Katrina Gwinn-Hardy, M.D. who works for NINDS as a Program Director and as an intramural research director along with Bernard Ravina, M.D., are interested in different aspects of Parkinson's disease.
