Dr. Web Ross earned his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1981 and completed his neurology residency at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA in 1989 and a fellowship in behavioral neurology at the University of California Los Angeles in 1991. He moved to Hawaii in 1991 to join the Department of Veterans Affairs and to work on the Kuakini Honolulu-Asia Aging Study, a longitudinal study of cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases of aging in a cohort of Japanese-American men living in Hawaii. His research interests include examining rates and risk factors for Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia, and correlating motor and non-motor clinical features of PD with neuropathology. He has also served as local principal investigator for many multicenter Parkinson’s disease clinical trials.