Daniel Weintraub, MD

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Weintraub is a professor of psychiatry at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is a professor of psychiatry and neurology at Penn and a psychiatrist at the Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center (PADRECC) at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. A geriatric psychiatrist, he conducts clinical research on the psychiatric and cognitive complications of Parkinson’s disease and is the author of more than 100 journal articles, reviews, and book chapters. Dr. Weintraub completed an NIMH Career Development Award titled “Depression Diagnosis and Treatment in Parkinson’s Disease” and has been PI on grants from the VA, Penn, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, and several industry-sponsored studies. He is also the current clinical core leader of the Penn Udall Center, which focuses on cognition in Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Weintraub is Associate Editor for Movement Disorders journal, was formerly on the Executive Committee of the Parkinson Study Group (PSG), and has been a member of four Movement Disorder Society (MDS) task forces to revise and make recommendations for the assessment of cognitive and psychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease and was chair of the Psychiatry Subgroup of the NINDS Common Data Elements (CDE) project.