PDWebcasts

PDF offers free educational webcasts about Parkinson’s disease (PD) for people with PD, caregivers and families and allied health professionals.  Topics covered to date have included research updates, genetics, treatments, nonmotor symptoms and more.

What is a PDWebcast? Please read our PDWebcast FAQ to learn how you can watch Parkinson’s researchers discussing their latest findings and how they impact your life - all from the comfort of your own home.  Choose an event below to start watching now:

• Surgical Advances in Parkinson's Disease
• What's New in Parkinson's Research?: A Closer Look at Genetics and PD
• Mind, Mood and Body: Understanding Nonmotor Symptoms of PD
• What's in the PD Pipeline?
• PDF's 50th Anniversary Educational Symposium

Surgical Advances in Parkinson's Disease*
Topics discussed: Surgical options for Parkinson's, including but not limited to deep brain stimulation (DBS) and gene therapy.
Faculty: Monique L. Giroux, M.D. (Booth Gardner Parkinson’s Care Center), Jaimie M. Henderson, M.D. (Stanford University School of Medicine), Jeffrey H. Kordower, Ph.D. (Rush University Medical Center), and Sierra Farris M.P.A.S., PA-C (Booth Gardner Parkinson’s Care Center).
Program and Faculty Biographies: Download the program or view it online
Originally Presented: Saturday, October 11, 2008.
Location and partner: Spokane, WA with the Northwest Parkinson's Foundation.

Watch, "Surgical Advances in Parkinson's Disease"

 

What's New in Parkinson's Research?: A Closer Look at Genetics and PD
Topics discussed: Basic research updates, the role of genetics in Parkinson's.
Faculty: Susan B. Bressman, M.D.
Originally Presented: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Location: New York, NY
Length of Webcast: Two and a half hours total.  Main presentation is under one hour.

Watch, "What's New in Parkinson's Research?: A Closer Look at Genetics and PD"

 

Mind, Mood and Body: Understanding Nonmotor Symptoms of PD*
Topics discussed: Nonmotor symptoms, from autonomic to emotional and cognitive aspects of PD.
Faculty: Ronald Pfeiffer, M.D. (University of Tennessee Health Science Center) Dr. Matthew Menza, M.D. (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School), Peter LeWitt, M.D. (Henry Ford Hospital).
Program and Faculty Biographies: Download the event program or view it online
Originally Presented: Friday, July 18, 2008.
Location and partner: Lansing, MI with the Michigan Parkinson Foundation.

Watch,“Mind, Mood and Body” 

 

What’s in the PD Pipeline?*
Topics Discussed: Genetics, potential treatments in the pipeline, such as gene therapy and stem cells.
Faculty: Katrina Gwinn, M.D. (National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke), Dr. Mark Stacy, M.D. (Duke University Medical Center), Clive N. Svendsen, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Program and Faculty Biographies: Download the event program or view the program online.
Originally presented: Friday, May 9, 2008 .
Location and partner: Charlotte , NC with the Parkinson Association of the Carolinas.

Watch, “What’s in the PD Pipeline?”


PDF’s 50th Anniversary Educational Symposium
Topics discussed: This two-day symposium featured two tracks, one focusing on quality of life, for a lay audience and the other focusing on basic science. Topics included neuroprotection, genetics, caregiver issues, potential treatments, sleep disorders and the value of exercise for people with Parkinson’s.
Faculty: Featured 43 leading Parkinson's professionals, including Stanley Fahn, M.D. (Columbia University Medical Center).
Program and Faculty Biographies: Download the event program.
Originally presented: October 11-12, 2007
Location: New York, NY

Watch the webcast of PDF’s 50th Anniversary Educational Symposium

*The content and management of these symposia and webcasts are under the exclusive direction of the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, the Parkinson Association of the Carolinas, the Michigan Parkinson Foundation, the Northwest Parkinson’s Foundation, the Houston Area Parkinson Society and are made possible by a generous unrestricted grant from UCB, Inc.

 

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