Dr. Alexander Pantelyat, co-Principal Investigator, is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and director of the Johns Hopkins Atypical Parkinsonism Center. He cares for patients with a variety of movement disorders including PD and related syndromes. He is an expert in Atypical Parkinsonian disorders, and established the Johns Hopkins Atypical Parkinsonism Center and the associated multidisciplinary Atypical Parkinsonism Research Clinic in 2014. His current research projects focus on biomarker discovery and clinical trials in Atypical Parkinsonian disorders, cognitive aspects of movement disorders, and music and rhythm-based rehabilitation for neurodegenerative diseases. He co-established and co-directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Music & Medicine.

Dr. Liana Rosenthal, co-Principal Investigator, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology. She graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed a medicine internship at Johns Hopkins Bayview. She then completed her Neurology residency and a two-year movement disorders fellowship at Johns Hopkins. She is also currently a student in the Ph.D. program in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also directs the JHU Ataxia Center as well as the Clinical Core of the Morris K. Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence. Her research focuses primarily on identification and characterization of biomarkers for Parkinson disease and Parkinson disease-related cognitive impairment.

Dr. Jee Bang, co-Principal Investigator, is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry. She completed her residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, followed by fellowship training in behavioral neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She has an interest in neurodegenerative disorders that affect both cognition and movement. Dr. Bang has been the principal site investigator in several clinical trials which included progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy, as well as Huntington disease. She is also the clinical director of the Johns Hopkins Huntington Disease Society of America Center of Excellence and co-directs the Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Fellowship Program.