Top Parkinson’s disease specialist visited White House 10 times since 2022: Visitor logs

President Joe Biden’s physician met with a top Washington, D.C., neurologist who specializes in Parkinson’s disease earlier this year, according to White House visitor logs.

The logs show that Parkinson’s disease expert Dr. Kevin Cannard of the Walter Reed Medical Center met with Biden’s physician Kevin O’Connor and two others at the White House residence clinic on Jan. 17. Cannard’s name shows up in the visitor logs 10 times since Nov. 15, 2022.

“It’s highly likely they were talking about Biden,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) told the New York Post, who first reported on the Jan. meeting. “He should only be [regularly] treating the president and the first family.”

Jackson served as physician to the president under the Obama and Trump administrations from 2013 to 2018. He has issued a number of warnings about Biden’s declining mental health, and accused O’Connor and first lady Jill Biden of having “led the cover up” to hide the president’s well-being from the public.

In all but two of Cannard’s visits dating back to late 2022, he is listed as having visited Megan Nasworthy, a liaison between Walter Reed Medical Center and the White House. Aside from the January meeting with O’Connor, he met with someone listed as “Dr. Joshua Simmons” on Nov. 15, 2022.

Walter Reed Medical Center cardiologist John E. Atwood was also in the meeting, according to the logs.

Cannard published a paper in the Parkinsonism & Related Disorders journal that focuses on the “early stage” of Parkinson’s disease in August 2023, just months before the meeting.

When asked about the visit, the White House pointed to the wide range of personnel and jobs doctors visiting are responsible for.

“A wide variety of specialists from the Walter Reed system visit the White House complex to treat the thousands of military personnel who work on the grounds,” the White House told the Washington Examiner in a statement Saturday.

In Biden’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, released on Friday, he declined to commit to taking an independent cognitive test. Biden claimed his “bad” debate performance was “no indication of any serious condition.”

The president also admitted at a meeting with Democratic governors that he had recently met with his doctor before the first presidential debate, despite the White House repeatedly denying he had any medical examination done. He also revealed that he would try to curtail his schedule to have fewer events after 8 p.m.

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Biden aides told Axios last week that the president is functional and engaged from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Outside of that time period, or while traveling abroad, aides said, the president is more likely to have miscues.

After his rough showing at the first debate, Biden has faced mounting pressure to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Political heavyweights on both sides of the aisle have criticized his performance, and many prominent members of his own party have called on him to let someone else take on Trump in November.