Nandakumar Narayanan

Dr. Nandakumar Narayanan is the Juanita J. Bartlett Professor of Neurology and Vice Chair for Research at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He also serves as Director of the Iowa Center for Neurodegeneration. He is from Seattle, Washington and graduated from Stanford University and Yale University’s MD/PhD program. Dr. Narayanan is an expert in the neural mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. Dr. Narayanan has received numerous awards for his research and teaching, including the Donald B. Lindsley Prize for Behavioral Neuroscience, the S. Weir Mitchell Award for residency research, and the Jon Stolk Award for Movement Disorders Research.