Carolyn Larkin Taylor, M.D.

Carolyn Larkin Taylor is a board-certified neurologist with over 30 years of experience in general neurology. After growing up in Spring Lake, New Jersey, she was among the first women to graduate from the University of Notre Dame. She later moved to Philadelphia, where she obtained her MD from Hahnemann Medical College, completed a medicine internship at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and finished her neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania. While in Philadelphia, she received the Humaneness in Medicine Award from the Philadelphia Medical Society and was named one of Philadelphia magazine's Top Doctors for Women.

In addition to private practice she also served as medical director for the Parkinson's Outreach Center. In 2001, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she founded Northwest Neurology and the Cascadia Center for Multiple Sclerosis, ultimately concluding her clinical career at Swedish Neuroscience Center in Seattle. Throughout her journey, she has been a passionate advocate for MS patients and is dedicated to educating others about addiction as a brain disease. Dr. Taylor's manuscript, Through a Mother's Eyes, won second place for best unpublished memoir from the Pacific Northwest Writers Association.

She currently resides in Bellingham, WA with her husband, their Bernese mountain dog, and golden retriever, and has one adult son living in Seattle.