About Dr Gwinn

Katrina Gwinn, MD received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley
College. Following that she worked in Nobel Prize winner Phil Sharp 's
laboratory at MIT, and thereafter, at Massachusetts General Hospital in
the field of genetics. She then received her MD degree from Vanderbilt,
did a Neurology residency at Univ. of Michigan, followed by a fellowship in
Parkinson’s disease and other Movement disorders at the Mayo Clinic at
Scottsdale. She was appointed to the Mayo faculty following her
fellowship, where she worked until coming to the NIH in 2001 as a
Program Director in Neurogenetics. She has published close to 100 peer
reviewed scientific papers primarily on the subject of genetics and
Parkinson’s disease.

Her honors and awards have included being “One of the Best Doctors in
America” including in 2001 and 2005, the NIH directors award for her
work in Neurogenetics, and induction into the American Neurological
Association. As a member of the NIH speakers bureau, she has served
as a consultant to many public queries including television shows such as
“ER, Gray’s Anatomy, and House”. On a personal note, her father has
Parkinson’s disease and provides a great deal of inspiration and insight
into her work.

This website is a voluntary effort by Dr. Gwinn, and not a part of her
official duties. It represents only her opinion, in general terms, and not
her workplace's opinion nor a professional rendering of services.

about Katrina Gwinn, MD
Author, "Living Older, Living Better"

Sources of Inspiration:

My patients, and their
families, many of whom have
found their own solutions to
problems that I will also share
with you.
My physician teachers and
mentors. I have been
fortunate enough to have
experience from many fine
institutions as an
undergraduate, laboratory
researcher, and physician, in
this country and abroad.
My parents, now in their late
70s, my aunts and uncles, and
their friends are also sources
of inspiration as well as
information.