Helen Hwang, MD, PhD

Dr. Helen Hwang is an Instructor in the Department of Neurology. She obtained her MD/PhD degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and completed her neurology and fellowship training at Washington University. Dr. Hwang sees patients in the Movement Disorder Clinic at Washington University and conducts research on Lewy Body Dementia in the laboratory of Dr. Paul Kotzbauer. Her research focuses on CSF and tissue biomarkers of Parkinson's disease. She is also interested in potential small-molecule therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease and Lewy Body Dementia.