Dr. Paulson is the Lucile Groff Professor of Neurology, Director of the Michigan ADRC, co-director of the UM Protein Folding Diseases Initiative (PFDI) focused on proteinopathies (including those caused by alphasynuclein), and head of the neurodegenerative disease research programs in the Department of Neurology. He has served leadership roles at numerous levels and serves on the scientific advisory boards of various disease foundations. Formally trained in movement disorders and neurogenetics, upon moving to UM in 2007 he shifted his clinical efforts and research to the dementias. Under his leadership, UM has recruited many faculty and staff who together comprise a highly dynamic clinical research program focused on the non-amyloid contributions to the dementias. As a neurologist with formal training in movement disorders and neurogenetics who now works primarily in cognitive disorders, he has precisely the training needed to identify and treat those with LBD.

Dr. Kotagal is Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and the Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (VAAAHS). He completed medical school at the University of Minnesota and Neurology residency & fellowship in Movement and Cognitive Disorders at the University of Michigan. His research involves designing and conducting clinical trials on parkinsonian conditions that use brain imaging methods to overcome roadblocks in standard clinical trial designs and approaches for Lewy Body diseases. He cares for patients with PD, DLB, and other parkinsonian conditions at VAAAHS.