Dr. Burton trained in general medicine and neurology at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK and in movement disorders at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. He is principal investigator of a research group in the Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative diseases, and divides his time between researching the molecular mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, delivering clinical care to movement disorders patients at UPMC and Pittsburgh VA, and teaching neurology to medical students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.