The project leader is Dr. Janice Walton-Hadlock, DAOM (Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), a teacher at Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz, California.
Her writings, describing various aspects of our research in this field, have been published as articles in numerous peer-reviewed acupuncture journals. Her larger works, a book about the theory, cause, and treatment of Parkinson's and a book about antiparkinson's medications, are published by the Parkinson's Recovery Project and are available on this website.
Her entry into publication in western medical journals is very recent; her rebuttal to a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) 2004 article on antiparkinson's medication, based on her four-year study of antiparkinson's medications, was published in the March 31, 2005 issue of the NEJM.

Other research team members are Chris Ells, LAc, (doctoral degree pending), Rebecca Weinfeld, LAc, RN, MTCM (Master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Laura Walter, LAc., MTCM.
Chris Ells teaches at Five Branches University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Rebecca Weinfeld, in addition to being a licensed acupuncturist, craniosacral therapist, and nutritional consultant, has many years of experience as a psychiatric nurse. Laura Walter is a craniosacral therapist, as well as a licensed acupuncturist. All four members of the research team have been working extensively with people with Parkinson’s since the late 1990s.

The PD Team is a working research group, the team members provide various treatments for people with Parkinson's disease and assesses the results of the treatments.
The Parkinson's Recovery Project is an IRS approved non-profit. our mission is primarily educational. We maintain a web program for disseminating, for free, the latest research findings on Parkinson's from the perspective of Asian medicine, with support from western medicine findings.