Biography
Dr. Anne-Marie Wills is a Neurologist specializing in neurodegenerative disease, such as Parkinson's Disease and A.L.S. She received her B.A. from Princeton University, her M.D. from Columbia College Physicians & Surgeons, and her M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her specialty training in the Partners Neurology residency program, a combined program between Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has been on staff at MGH since 2006.
Her research focuses on environmental risk factors and determinants of neurodegenerative disease progression, including nutrition, caffeine and pesticides. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a multi-center clinical trial funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association to study the effects of over-feeding A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's Disease) patients, because both human and animal data show a strong increase in survival from excess calories and body weight. She is also the MGH Investigator on several Parkinson's Disease clinical trials testing therapeutic interventions in P.D.
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Last updated: 7/27/2010