Kathleen Poston, MD, MS, FAAN, FANA
Stanford University
Kathleen Poston, MD, MS, FAAN, FANA is the Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor in Neurology and Neurological Sciences and (by courtesy) Neurosurgery at Stanford University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, her Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering and her Doctor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. She completed her Neurology residency training at UCSF, completed a fellowship in clinical movement disorders at Columbia University and post-doctoral research training in functional neuroimaging at the Feinstein Institute. Dr. Poston’s research and clinical emphasis is biomarker development to study the motor and non-motor impairments symptoms, such as dementia, that develop in Lewy body diseases. Dr. Poston is vice chair for research in the Department of Neurology, Chief of the Movement Disorders Division and holds an appointment in the Memory Disorders division. She is a founding member of the Stanford ADRC and co-director for the Stanford LBDA Research Center of Excellence, director of the Stanford Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence, and a PPMI Executive Steering Committee Member.