The Research Center of Excellence serves as the Coordinating Center for the RCOE program starting in 2025. Located at the Stanford University Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences as part of the Division of Memory Disorders and the Division of Movement Disorders, which have rapidly grown into world-leading programs that are highly integrated and uniquely collaborative, the Stanford RCOE. Our Center includes Behavioral Neurologists, Movement disorders Physicians, Autonomic neurologists, Sleep neurologists, Neuropsychologists, Neuropsychiatrists, Nurse coordinators, Social Workers, Genetics counselors, and Physical/Occupational/Speech Therapists. We proudly support NIH-funded research programs such as the Stanford Alzheimer’s disease Research Center (ADRC) with a dual focus on cognitive impairments due to Alzheimer’s and Lewy body pathologies, recruiting patients with Lewy body dementia (LBD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and healthy adults. We provide the latest opportunities to participate in LBD clinical trials in our Neurology Clinical Trials Organization. All of these clinical and research activities are on-site at our state-of-the-art Stanford Neuroscience Health Center (SNHC). Stanford is proud to lead the important mission of the LBDA RCOE.
Stanford University (Coordinating Center) in Palo Alto, CA
About This Center
Contact Information
Name: Pragya Tripathi
Email Address: [email protected]
Phone Number: 650-647-9580
Contact this person for: Clinical Trials
Name: Stanford Neuroscience Health Center
Email Address: [email protected]
Online Portal: https://stanfordhealthcare.org/health-care-professionals/physician-resource/center/referral-information.html
Phone Number: 650-723-6469
Contact this person for: Clinic Appointments
Sharon Sha, MD
Dr. Sharon Sha is a Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University where she serves as Chief for the Memory Disorders Division and the Stanford Memory Disorders Center, Associate Vice Chair of Clinical Research, Director of the Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence and Ataxia Clinic, Co-Director of the Lewy Body Disease Association Research Center of Excellence, Clinical Core Co-Leader of the Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, and the founding Director of the Behavioral Neurology Fellowship. Her clinical time is devoted to caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders and her research is devoted to finding treatments for these cognitive disorders.
Kathleen Poston, MD, MS
Dr. Kathleen Poston is the Edward F. and Irene Thiele Pimley Professor in Neurology and Neurological Sciences and (by courtesy) Neurosurgery, Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Neurology, Chief of the Movement Disorders Division at Stanford University, Co-Director for the Lewy Body Dementia Association Research Center of Excellence, and Director of the Stanford Parkinson’s Foundation Center of Excellence. Dr. Poston’s research and clinical emphasis is biomarker development to study the motor and non-motor impairments symptoms, such as dementia, that develop in patients with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.
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