Parkinson's Foundation Awards BIDMC and PI Ludy Shih a Two-year Grant on Use of Embodied Conversational Agents for PD

Parkinson's Foundation Awards BIDMC and PI Ludy Shih a two-year grant on the use of embodied conversational agents to manage non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease and to promote exercise. Collaborators include Timothy Bickmore, PhD, Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Paola Pedrelli, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. 

For more about Parkinson's Foundation and the other awardees, click the link to the announcement here: https://www.parkinson.org/about-us/news/innovative-care-grants