In The News: Zag Scholar Researches Parkinson’s

The Spokesman Review recently featured Human Physiology major Kate Barnett, whose educational experience took a leap forward when she became a McKinstry Fellow, allowing her to conduct important research on Parkinson's disease. The research is led by Clint Wutzke, associate professor of human physiology, whose students use a new lab within the UW-GU Health Partnership.

The research Barnett participated in found that Parkinson's patients do have less variability as they're walking, but according to Wutzke, there's more data that needs to be collected before the research is complete. Wutzke plans on studying this aspect of human physiology as long as he's teaching at Gonzaga, he said, with a goal to create movement programs that will help Parkinson's patients maintain quality movement for as long as possible.

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