Burke Medical Research Institute Student-Scientist Awarded Summer Fellowship to Study Parkinson’s Disease
WHITE PLAINS, NY – July 25, 2013 – As an avid pianist and dancer, Ava Weibman of Bedford Corners, N.Y., has always taken an interest in movement. In the summer of 2012, after completing her freshman year at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, she followed that curiosity further by shadowing a neurologist specializing in treating Parkinson’s disease, a chronic, progressive movement disorder. “That was truly an enlightening experience not only because I learned more about the motor symptoms like tremor and balance impairment, but also how Parkinson’s disease is a