Sara Hall (Sweden)

Lund University Department of Clinical Sciences
Sara Hall is a postdoc researcher at the Clinical Memory Research Unit, Malmö, Lund University, Sweden in Professor Oskar Hansson´s research group. Her research is focused on diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in CSF and blood in Parkinsonian disorders, with a special interest in the cognitive aspects of these disorders. She is also a consultant physician at the Memory Clinic, Skane University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden. Sara graduated from Medical School at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden in 2002. During her residency at the Neurology Clinic in Lund, Sweden she was also active in the creation of the Parkinsonian cohort in the prospective, longitudinal Swedish BioFINDER study as part of her graduate studies. In 2017 she obtained her PhD, defending her thesis “Biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, Diagnostic value of biochemical markers, and their relation to disease progression”. The same year she became a specialist in Neurology. In 2017 she received the Bundy Academy Award for Neurology.