Alice Chen-Plotkin, MD

Alice Chen-Plotkin is the Parker Family Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate and English literature major at Harvard University, she began her scientific training as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. At the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, she leads a research group studying the neurodegenerative diseases and maintains a clinical practice caring for Parkinson's Disease patients. She is the founding director of the Molecular Integration in Neurological Diagnosis (MIND) Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort launched in 2018 to develop precision medicine in the Penn Parkinson’s Disease clinic.

Dr. Chen-Plotkin has won top awards from the American Academy of Neurology (Jon Stolk Award, 2014), the American Neurological Association (Derek Denny Brown Award, 2018), and the Doris Duke Foundation (Paragon Award, 2023) for her translational research efforts.