Alice Chen-Plotkin is Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she runs a research group studying neurodegeneration and sees patients with neurodegenerative disorders.  A Phi Beta Kappa graduate and English literature major at Harvard University, she started her scientific training at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.  She then returned to Harvard for medical school and neurology residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  In 2007, she moved to the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed simultaneous clinical subspecialty training and a scientific post-doctoral fellowship before joining the faculty in 2010. She has won a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists, a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinician Scientist Development Award and, in 2014, the Jon Stolk Award for Movement Disorders Research from the American Academy of Neurology.  Since 2012, she has been a member of the national steering committee for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH-NINDS) Parkinson’s Disease Biomarker Program, chairing the steering committee in 2013.