Symposium 2012
Annual Parkinson Symposium 2012
Advances in the Treatment of Parkinson Disease
A community education event for patients, caregivers, healthcare providers and the community,
sponsored by Sarasota Memorial and Neuro Challenge Foundation.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Registration & Continental Breakfast: 8:00 a.m.
Program 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Sarasota Memorial Institute for Advanced Medicine
5880 Rand Blvd., Sarasota (1/2 mile west of I-75 off Clark Rd.)
Distinguished Speakers
“Changing the American Healthcare Landscape to Completely Patient Centric Care”
Michael S. Okun, MD
As the National Medical Director for the National Parkinson Foundation since 2006, Dr. Okun has worked with the 43 international NPF centers of excellence to help foster the best possible environments for care, research and outreach in Parkinson disease, dystonia, Tourette, and movement disorders. Dr. Okun is currently Administrative Director of the Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration, part of the Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, the McKnight Brain Institute, and the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Okun holds the Adelaide Lackner Associate Professorship in Neurology, has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, is a published poet (Lessons From the Bedside, 1995), and has served as a reviewer for more than 25 major medical journals including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has been invited to speak about Parkinson disease and movement disorders all over the world.
“Examining Motor Aspects of Parkinson Disease”
Cynthia Fox, PhD, CCC-SLP
Co-founder, LSVT Global, Research Associate at the National Center for Voice and Speech in Denver, CO; Research Lecturer in the Department of Neurology at the University of Arizona at Tucson; Dr. Fox is an expert in the underlying mechanisms of speech disorders in Parkinson Disease, and application of LSVT®LOUD to Parkinson Disease and Stroke.
“Functional Neurosurgery for Parkinson Disease”
James M. Schumacher, MD
Colleague, Center For Neuroregeneration Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Neurosurgeon, Sarasota Memorial Hospital
“Medical Treatment for Parkinson Disease”
Dean P. Sutherland, MD, PhD
Director, Southeastern Center for Parkinson Disease, Assistant Clinical Professor, Florida State University, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Florida Colleges of Medicine, Medical Director, Neuro Challenge Foundation, Neurologist, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Advisor, Michael J. Fox Trial Finder Task Force
$25 per person. Click Here to Register
Scholarships available upon request.
Convenient drop off and pick-up.
Partial support for this event provided by Teva Neuroscience and Medtronic.
