Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Vaillancourt has a long track-record of NIH funded projects, including 10 R01s and 2 U01s as the contact PI focused on studies in Parkinsonism and dementia. Over the past decade, he has published over 194 papers, most using neuroimaging methods, and his laboratory has been at the cutting-edge of studying neuroimaging applications to motor systems physiology. His group was the first to use free-water imaging in Parkinson’s disease and show progression of free-water in the substantia nigra. His laboratory led the recent multi-site paper published in The Lancet Digital Health that studied how free-water imaging and machine learning can predict different forms of Parkinsonism.