Donald Brian Calne, OC FRSC (born May 4, 1936), is a Canadian neurologist who is a leading Parkinson's disease researcher.
[citation needed] He is a member of the National Parkinson Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board.
[9] He was the first researcher to use L dopa in the UK and the first to show how to use synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease.
He has shown that latent damage occurs in the brain even before the symptoms of Parkinson's disease appears.
[12][13][14][15] He married Susan M. Wigfield, who has been a nurse and co-ordinator at the UBC hospital’s movement disorders clinic.