Dr. Katrina Gwinn-Hardy received her undergraduate degree in brain and behavior at Wellesley College in 1982. She then worked at Massachussetts Institute of Technology and Massachussetts General Hospital in molecular biology before going to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where she graduated with an MD degree in 1991. Her residency in Neurology was done at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, followed by a fellowship in Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale completed in 1996. Since that time she worked as a faculty member at Mayo Medical School with a major interest in biological markers and linkage studies of familial parkinsonism. She now works in the Neurogenetics Cluster as a Program Director, and also continues to do independent research in familial Parkinson's disease in the intramural program at NINDS.