Alice Chen-Plotkin

About Alice Chen-Plotkin

Alice Chen-Plotkin is the Parker Family Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania

Alice was born in Taipei, Taiwan; her family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, when she was five. 

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate and English literature major at Harvard University, she began her scientific training as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. At the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, she leads a research group studying the neurodegenerative diseases and maintains a clinical practice caring for Parkinson's Disease patients. She is the founding director of the Molecular Integration in Neurological Diagnosis (MIND) Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort launched in 2018 to develop precision medicine in the Penn Parkinson’s Disease clinic. Dr. Chen-Plotkin has won top awards from the American Academy of Neurology (Jon Stolk Award, 2014), the American Neurological Association (Derek Denny Brown Award, 2018), and the Doris Duke Foundation (Paragon Award, 2023) for her translational research efforts.

Alice is married to Joshua Plotkin, has one son and a daughter.