Caroline M. Tanner, MD, PhD, FAAN,FANA

Roger Evans and Aey Phanachet Professor in Parkinson’s Disease
Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Tanner specializes in movement disorders, with a focus on Parkinson’s disease. Her research includes descriptive epidemiology, environmental and genetic determinants, biomarkers, early detection, nonmotor features and clinical trials. She is co-PI of the home-based TOPAZ fracture prevention study for people with neurodegenerative parkinsonism, a member of the PPMI leadership team and PI of PPMI Online, FOUND-PPMI and Fox Insight. She has been fortunate to serve as mentor to talented students from many countries, who themselves are now leading researchers and educators worldwide.