Dr. Chantale Branson’s passion to educate others about Parkinson’s disease is personal.
Branson, an Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Department of Internal Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine, was a guest on Friday’s edition of “Closer Look.”
She told program host Rose Scott that while she was enrolled in medical school, her family had to figure out how to navigate her paternal grandmother’s diagnosis of the neurodegenerative disorder, which affects the dominant dopamine-producing neurons in the brain.
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