Lorraine Kalia

Lorraine Kalia MD, PhD, FRCPC received her MD/PhD and neurology residency training at University of Toronto. She conducted a postdoctoral research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and a movement disorders fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital. Currently, she is an assistant professor and clinician scientist in the Division of Neurology at University of Toronto with appointments at Krembil Research Institute, Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. She is a movement disorders neurologist in the Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Centre at Toronto Western Hospital. She volunteers as a member of the Board of Directors of Dancing with Parkinson’s. She has received research funding from Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Parkinson’s UK, J.P. Bickell Foundation, and Krembil Research Institute. Her research program focuses on Parkinson's disease and related disorders with the goal of understanding the key molecular mechanisms responsible for neurodegeneration to develop novel therapies.