Dr. Young is the Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Chief, Neurology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Young is a graduate of Vassar College and completed her MD/PhD at Johns Hopkins in 1974. She completed residency training in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. She joined the neurology faculty at the University of Michigan where she advanced to Professor in 1985. In 1991, she was recruited to the Massachusetts General Hospital as Chief of the Neurology Service and Julieanne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Young holds membership in both the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Dr. Young's current research work includes elucidating cellular and systems mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases.  She is spearheading an effort at MGH to accelerate the discovery of effective therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases.