Research Team
Beate Ritz
Dr. Ritz is a physician, epidemiologist, professor of Epidemiology, and the Director of the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Program at UCLA.
She has devoted her career to studying the environmental causes of diseases with the hope of preventing Parkinson’s disease.
Her team works with large data sets linking environmental factors and health in California and in Europe.
Jonathan Jacobs
Dr. Jacobs is the director of the UCLA Microbiome Core and an assistant professor-in-residence of the UCLA Department of Medicine.
He researches digestive diseases and how the microbiome interacts with diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, and obesity.
Jeff Bronstein
Dr. Bronstein is a professor at Molecular Toxicology and Neurology, and the Director of the UCLA Movement Disorders Program.
He treats brain and nerve disease patients and is in charge of clinical Parkinson’s disease research in the Department of Neurology at UCLA.
Adrienne Keener
Dr. Keener is an assistant professor of the UCLA Movement Disorders Program and an Associate Director of Education and Clinical Care at the PADRECC for Veteran Affairs.
She treats brain and nerve disease patients and conducts research at UCLA.
Marie Flores
Dr. Flores is a family physician, epidemiologist, and assistant researcher in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA. She is leading PEG-GUT Study’s targeted effort to enroll more Latino participants in our study as they are the most highly exposed to pesticides in our study population.
Dr. Flores is a member of the Latino community and is familiar with the local health care settings in the central valley. She is uniquely qualified to address the goals of this supplement in order to help increase the participation of Latinos in our important study.
Emeran Mayer
Dr. Mayer is a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience.
He is a world renowned gastroenterologist and neuroscientist with 35 years of experience in the study of clinical and neurobiological aspects of how the digestive system and the nervous system interact in health and disease.