The speaker at the next virtual Stanford Young Onset Parkinson’s Disease (YOPD) support group meeting is Stanford movement disorders specialist Margaret Ferris, MD. On Tuesday, October 8 from 7-8:30pm PT Dr. Ferris will discuss cognitive changes and how to navigate the work/health balance.
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Este mes de Agosto, la reunión del Grupo de Parkinson en Español de la Universidad de Stanford, se realizará de forma conjunta con la Biblioteca de Salud de Stanford. La Dra. Carla Abdelnour explicará en qué consisten los ensayos clínicos, y cómo nos ayudan a desarrollar medicamentos de forma segura y eficaz.
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This month the Stanford Parkinson’s Community Outreach Program hosted a lunch for former PD caregivers who attended our support groups. Those in attendance had lost their loved one from one week to four years ago.
We asked them to share their thoughts on a few questions to benefit current PD caregivers. Here are the questions we asked our lunch attendees and their wise advice:
A this special meeting of the Palo Alto PD support group on Friday, February 23, 2:30-3:30pm, we welcome Stanford movement disorder specialist Dr. Kathleen Poston. Dr. Poston will be speaking about a new biological definition of Parkinson’s Disease that she and others are proposing. (The effort was organized by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Dr. Poston is one of the co-authors.)
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At the August virtual meeting of the Palo Alto Parkinson’s Support Group, the speaker will be Helen Bronte-Stewart, MD, movement disorder specialist at Stanford. Her topic is “brain sensing and adaptive DBS” (deep brain stimulation). If you live in the Palo Alto area and aren’t on our meeting reminder email list, contact us today!
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