Richard L. Doty

Richard L. Doty 

Richard L Doty, Ph.D., will be presenting a lecture entitled “The Olfactory Dysfunction of Parkinson’s Disease” In addition to discussing the anatomy and physiology of the olfactory system, he will provide an overview of the nature of the olfactory deficits of Parkinson’s disease and how they can be measured. He will be available to talk individually with attendees.

Dr. Doty is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Smell and Taste Center. He is an author or coauthor of over 400 professional publications, including 12 books and contributions to such publications as Science, Nature, Lancet Neurology, and the Encyclopedia Britannica. He is the editor of the Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation (John Wiley, 3rd edition, 2015), a 2000+ page tome considered to be the Bible of the chemical senses field, as well as the first volume of the Handbook of Clinical Neurology to be devoted to the senses of smell and taste (Elsevier, 2019). Among his other books are Neurology of Olfaction (2009) and Smell and Taste Disorders (2017), both co-authored by Christopher Hawkes (Cambridge University Press), and The Great Pheromone Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). He is perhaps best known as the inventor of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), a standardized olfactory test heralded as the olfactory equivalent to the eye chart. Among his numerous awards are the James A. Shannon Award from the National Institutes of Health (1996), the Olfactory Research Fund’s Scientific Sense of Smell Award (2000), the William Osler Patient-Oriented Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania (2003), the Society of Cosmetic Chemist’s Service Award (2004), and the Association for Chemoreception Science’s Max Mozell Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses (2005).