Sabthagi Sivathasan

Biography:

Sabthagi Sivathasan is a final year medical student at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from St Georges, University of London.  Her academic interests include neurology, public health and addressing health inequalities. This research project, which investigates the underrepresentation of specific ethnicities in Parkinson’s disease research and its implications or emerging treatments, was conducted as part of her medical school dissertation. This project was supervised by Jonathan P Bestwick, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics at the Centre for Preventative Neurology, at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health.