Tritia Yamasaki, MD, received her medical and research degrees at the University of California, Irvine and trained in neurology at University of California, Los Angeles. She completed a fellowship in movement disorders at Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine. Yamasaki is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology. She is also a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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I am interested in research, and my lab studies the protein alpha-synuclein, which accumulates abnormally in Parkinson's disease as well as other diseases.

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