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Fang Ba

ResearcherClinical sciencesUniversity of Alberta

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Fang Ba

Researcher

Clinical sciences

Social Sciences and Humanities

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
16 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 SSHRC), most recently in 2021.
Supervisor on 1 trainee award (1 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

parkinson's disease neurodegeneration MRI deep brain stimulation movement disorders

Latest papers

PDFormer: A Multimodal Transformer for Quantifying Motor Symptom Severity in Parkinson's Disease.
Medical image analysis · 2026
High-Resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Hippocampus and Associations With Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Lewy Body Diseases.
Hippocampus · 2026
Muscular torque variability in Parkinson's Disease with and without dopaminergic medication.
Neurophysiologie clinique = Clinical neurophysiology · 2026

All 43 publications

Latest funding

Equity in Device-Aided Therapies and Surgical Interventions for Movement Disorders: Investigating Ethnic, Gender, and Socioeconomic Disparities
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$268,000
Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$160,000

All 3 grants and awards

43 publications.

PDFormer: A Multimodal Transformer for Quantifying Motor Symptom Severity in Parkinson's Disease.

Li Y, Ahmed M, Ba F, Gong M, Cheng L

Medical image analysis2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2026.104323 PMID: 42785226

High-Resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Hippocampus and Associations With Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Lewy Body Diseases.

Budd AS, Solar KG, Gee M, Nelles K, Mankasingh B, Ismail Z, Smith EE, Martyna M, Ba F, Kalra S, Beaulieu C, Camicioli R

Hippocampus2026

DOI: 10.1002/hipo.70127 PMID: 42717433

Muscular torque variability in Parkinson's Disease with and without dopaminergic medication.

Afsharipour B, Roy FD, Xie H, Schindle M, Ba F, Kong L, Gorassini M, Sankar T

Neurophysiologie clinique = Clinical neurophysiology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2026.103190 PMID: 42526408

Substantia Innominata : Atrophy, Gait Variability and Dual-Task Gait Across the Lewy Body Disease Spectrum.

Yeung AK, Gee M, Ba F, Almeida Q, Smith E, Nelles K, Sharma B, Masellis M, Black S, Pieruccini-Faria F, Montero-Odasso M, Camicioli R

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques2026

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2026.10623 PMID: 42165216

Characterization of Subthalamic Nucleus Boundary and Trajectory Recommendations From a Commercially Available Microelectrode Recording Algorithm During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson Disease.

Roy FD, Afsharipour B, King A, Waldron M, Ba F, Shetty A, Sankar T

Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)2026

DOI: 10.1227/ons.0000000000001708 PMID: 40637396

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease.

Ba F, Poonja S, Torabi P, Yen K, Daud Shah B, Noyes E, Dimapilis G, Corrick S, Sankar T, Rajput A, Monchi O, Vitali AM, Salami B, Shetty A, Miyasaki JM

Movement disorders clinical practice2026First author

DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.70312 PMID: 40904041

Quality Improvement in Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: Pandemic Impact on Specialized Elective Surgery.

Yen K, Torabi P, Miyasaki JM, Sankar T, Ba F

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2024.353 PMID: 39641461

Gray matter loss relates to dual task gait in Lewy body disorders and aging.

Subotic A, Gee M, Nelles K, Ba F, Dadar M, Duchesne S, Sharma B, Masellis M, Black SE, Almeida QJ, Smith EE, Pieruccini-Faria F, Montero-Odasso M, Camicioli R, Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA)

Journal of neurology2024

DOI: 10.1007/s00415-023-12052-y PMID: 37902878

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Changes Relate to Gait Issues in Parkinson's Disease.

Nathoo N, Gee M, Nelles K, Burt J, Sun H, Seres P, Wilman AH, Beaulieu C, Ba F, Camicioli R

The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques2023

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2022.316 PMID: 36351571

Dual-task gait and white matter hyperintensities in Lewy body diseases: An exploratory analysis.

Fatokun I, Gee M, Nelles K, Ba F, Dadar M, Duchesne S, Sharma B, Masellis M, Black SE, Almeida QJ, Smith EE, Pieruccini-Faria F, Montero-Odasso M, Camicioli R

Frontiers in aging neuroscience2023

DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1088050 PMID: 37091522

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Fang Ba

Research

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Latest funding

PDFormer: A Multimodal Transformer for Quantifying Motor Symptom Severity in Parkinson's Disease.

High-Resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Hippocampus and Associations With Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Lewy Body Diseases.

Muscular torque variability in Parkinson's Disease with and without dopaminergic medication.

Substantia Innominata : Atrophy, Gait Variability and Dual-Task Gait Across the Lewy Body Disease Spectrum.

Characterization of Subthalamic Nucleus Boundary and Trajectory Recommendations From a Commercially Available Microelectrode Recording Algorithm During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson Disease.

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson's Disease.

Quality Improvement in Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: Pandemic Impact on Specialized Elective Surgery.

Gray matter loss relates to dual task gait in Lewy body disorders and aging.

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Changes Relate to Gait Issues in Parkinson's Disease.

Dual-task gait and white matter hyperintensities in Lewy body diseases: An exploratory analysis.

Equity in Device-Aided Therapies and Surgical Interventions for Movement Disorders: Investigating Ethnic, Gender, and Socioeconomic Disparities

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

Frequent collaborators

Tejas Sankar

Manuel Montero Odasso

Mario Masellis

Simon Duchesne

Christian Beaulieu

Mahsa Dadar

Bukola Salami

Fabrizio Giuliani

Li Cheng

Taylor Chomiak

Linglong Kong

Minglun Gong

Sanjay Kalra

Bin Zheng

Monica Gorassini

Sandra Black

Eric Smith

Yan Yuan

Zahinoor Ismail