Tritia R. Yamasaki, MD, PhD

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.

Research focus

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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