Dr. Chiu is a Senior Associate Consultant and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona. Her clinical time is focused on improving care for persons living with Parkinson disease and related conditions. As a movement disorders specialist with a joint appointment in the Department of Neuroscience, she is dedicated to refining early diagnostic methods and monitoring disease progression in Lewy body dementia. Her research explores multimodal biomarkers through advanced techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, and assays that detect alpha-synuclein and Alzheimer disease-related pathologies.

Dr. Choudhury is board-certified in Neurology and Dementia, practices at Banner Sun Health Research Institute (BSHRI) with an appointment as clinical assistant professor at the University of Arizona. In addition to providing clinical care to individuals with dementia, she is co-leader of the clinical core of the Arizona Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC). She is involved in multiple clinical trials in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders at BSHRI as associate investigator for the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trial Consortium (ACTC). Her research areas of interest include early diagnosis of dementia using emerging biomarkers, dementia with Lewy bodies and sex differences in dementia care.

Drs. Chiu and Choudhury have ongoing clinical and research collaborations through their respective institutions’ joint consortiums to better understand clinicopathological and biofluid correlations in persons living with Lewy body disease.